Lol no. The Greens have consistently polled 8-15% every election for the last 30 years - it’s basically the youth vote of kids who have grown up in a rich country with no threats around us who think the government can fix everything.

Guarantee you none of their voters have studied history at all, they’d have no idea how price caps have gone historically and even less clue how bad an idea giving government power over interests rates via the Treasurer is.

Their behind the scenes party people are Commies, their voter-base are impressionable children. They worked out they can be a wedge in the two party system of Aus and drag the Overton window left.

However there’s real world consequences if they get this stuff through. People might start taking this stuff seriously: