The Greens Had An Incredible Response To The Media’s Attacks On Them

The Greens have responded to days of media criticism for their progressive policies, dunking on the likes of News Corp and The Australian Financial Review in the most incredible way possible.

If we’ve learned anything from The Greens’ campaigning this election, it’s that they’re just going balls to the wall with their approach — as evident by the time Adam Bandt told an AFR journo to “Google it” after they asked a ridiculous gotcha question. But they’ve upped the ante this time in a new video of a “crisis meeting” over alleged media attacks.

“Righto Greens team, this is a crisis meeting, we’re getting smashed up by the media,” Tasmanian Senator Nick McKim says in the video before having numerous headlines read out to him.

The Greens had a crisis meeting to deal with all of these attacks from the media! pic.twitter.com/IYiKOAZswB

— Nick McKim (@NickMcKim) April 22, 2022

The headlines included Bandt’s now-viral comments about taxing the rich to pay for dental in Medicare, scrapping HECs debts, taxing oil and gas corporations and legalising weed — among other things.

But instead of jumping on the defence and criticising the media for its undoubtedly biased election coverage, The Greens simply let their policies speaking for themselves.

After listing the policies on a whiteboard, McKim concludes that, actually, it all looks pretty good.

“Oh, hang on. That all looks pretty good to me. We can put this in our next ad. How about this? If you want to tax the rich to fix your teeth, if you want to scrap student debt, if you want to make the big fossil fuel corporations pay their fair share of tax, if you want millions of Australians to get free internet, if you want a fair welfare system, if you want to legalise weed and if you want to frighten the Tories, vote Green,” he says.