The Teals are not independent. That’s one of the great cons of the age. Look at the badging and branding.
Their arrival on the political scene in 2022 has been like a straight out of the box do it yourself, prefabricated IKEA political furniture arriving at your front door complete with instructions and Allen keys
They were good to go.
But in reality, the Teals are simply a repackaged, softer, more gentler, feminised iteration of The Greens.They are the holier than thou, good cop in the old good cop bad cop routine.
Take a look at the reality of their voting record in parliament.
An analysis of their individual voting patterns from the parliamentary library reveals that the Teal “independent” MPs overwhelmingly sided with the Greens during the last term of parliament.
𝐊𝐨𝐨𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐏 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝟕𝟕% 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬. 𝟖𝟔% 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬.
𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐡 𝐌𝐏 𝐙𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝟕𝟓%
𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐏 𝐙𝐨𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝟖𝟏%
𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐌𝐏 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬, 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝟖𝟏% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.
𝐊𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐚 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐤, 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐲𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲, (𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝) 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝟗𝟒% 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.
Before the 2022 election no one had ever heard of the Teals. Their arrival on the political scene has been totally organic.
No grand announcements of the formation of a new, loose band of brothers and sisters or coalition of supposed independents.
We can only speculate as to the secret meetings in suburban lounge rooms like some East German resistance group.
Dark web communications? International finance? And of course closely guarded and no leaking.
There’s definitely a book in how they pulled it off. Like a well funded, well organised and well rehearsed political flash mob, practicing and honing the ground game and marketing “off broadway” they and their supporters just dropped out of the sky and hit the ground running in what could best be described, in keeping with their livery, as a “colour revolution”
Make no mistake. The Teals are nothing less the an iron fist in a velvet glove.