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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sarah Basford Canales and Krishani Dhanji

A ‘huge ego’ but effective: who is David Shoebridge, the polarising new Greens leader taking on One Nation?

David Shoebridge
David Shoebridge says he understands the anger of voters but wants to show them the ‘real enemy’. Photograph: George Chan/AAP

The new Greens leader, David Shoebridge, has said he is “up for a red-hot fight” and hit out at One Nation’s “politics of hate”, signalling a more confrontational style of delivery under his leadership.

The New South Wales senator, elected as leader on Wednesday afternoon after Larissa Waters’ shock resignation, said the minor party would show people it understood their anger and mistrust with mainstream politicians, and “show them who their real enemy is” – the elite 1%.

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