How Albanese’s practical pivot on climate paved the way for a Greens surge

The Greens' Queensland senate candidate Penny Allman-Payne celebrates on election night. The party fielded a formidable ground game in the 2022 contest – an operation Labor will seek to replicate. Photograph: Dan Peled/Getty Images

Given the complex dynamics of the 2022 election campaign, many postmortems, from many points of view, will ultimately be undertaken.

But one of the more intriguing questions to emerge after Saturday night is whether Labor fully understood the gathering momentum of the Greens voter recruitment exercise in metropolitan Brisbane once it was clear the Liberal vote in the inner city had collapsed.