Candidates for the ACT Greens have told their volunteers there's still more work to do, after the party managed to move margins across the ACT, but without winning a seat.
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"There's a lot to do, there's a hell of a lot to do, and we've got to do it," Greens candidate for Canberra Tim Hollo said on Saturday night.
After a concerted campaign Mr Hollo managed a four per cent swing in his favour on Saturday, for a total of 24.5 per cent, but it was well short of what was needed to move the seat away from Labor.
Mr Hollo said the party's efforts against the Liberal and National parties would continue.
"It looks quite like we're going to be campaigning again against a climate-denying, coal-loving Coalition government, for the next little while."
"We don't know yet obviously, we don't know the result nationally, we don't know the result here in the territory, but the work that we put in here needs to keep going."
"It really needs to keep going. We've been talking in the Greens for a long time now about continuous campaigning, or as those of us who are students of history and Trotskyist history might say, continuing revolution."
The party's vote stayed steady in Bean and gained almost two per cent in Fenner.
In the Senate, the party gained 3.56 per cent, to poll almost 20 per cent of the vote.
Lead Senate candidate Penny Kyburz said the party should be proud of the results.
Sally Whyte
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I report on a range of issues in federal politics and the public service, with a real passion for how decisions made in Canberra affect the lives of Australians.
