The Victorian Greens are taking a page from Mamdani’s policy playbook. Can they combat rising rightwing populism?

Victorian Greens leader Ellen Sandell predicts commentators will be ‘surprised’ by the party’s performance in November. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

Earlier this year, as the Victorian Greens mapped out their election strategy, a video from New York caught party leader Ellen Sandell’s eye.

In it Zohran Mamdani, the city’s new mayor, announced he was making good on his plan to “tax the rich” through a new levy on second properties worth more than $5m.