http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/milne-shrugs-off-greens-poll-slump-20120904-25bxh.html

The Greens' primary vote dropped to 8 per cent in yesterday's Newspoll, its lowest level in 3 1/2 years, with electoral analysts partly attributing the decline to the implementation of the carbon tax and the party's refusal to back a compromise deal on boat arrivals.

Also Labor has been making more grandiose unfunded promises than the Greens ever managed, leaving the greens with a severely depleted dialogue.

YES! and much further down to go.
Let us however,after stepping around our authors slanted view, be careful still warm.
See the polls are,while pointing to a Liberal landslide win, highlighting both leaders have the popularity of a wet rat at a garden party.

Turnbull made inroads to Abbotts position at Perth last night. The man talks sense, and in an orderly way.

The amazing thing is how high the Greens’ level of support has been, given how far off the planet they are!

From the linked article:

< Senator Milne said the Greens had work to do in the Parliament on "serious issues" such as education reform and bringing Australia's troops home from Afghanistan. >

Erm… what about a couple of other serious issues, like the development of a sustainable society, with the stabilisation of our population as the first and most important component?

..and the complete stop to onshore asylum seeking and a redirection of our humanitarian efforts into the right channels, instead of the Greens’ atrocious policies of the facilitation and expansion of erratic boat arrivals??

It is no wonder at all that they are in decline.

The old saying, given enough rope has worked against the greens, as well as the independents, as both will be a forgotten memory come the next election.

The only reason they received the support in the first place was due to voter dissatisfaction of their own parties, both labor and libs.

Many saw these as the only alternatives and many of those same voters are now realizing that giving your vote to a minority is worthless, as they simply side with one of the majors, the very majors they ran away from in the first place.

The greens are simply poison in my view and deserve the failing support they are receiving right now.

Rehctub, Lib and Lab are poison in my view, with the critically bad maximised rate of immigration and utterly antisustainable direction that they are taking this country in.

It gives an alternative party a huge opportunity to develop a policy platform in strong opposition to this, which would surely gain a great deal of support.

Such a policy platform should be totally in line with a green philosophy. But alas, for reasons that I just can’t work out, the Greens have completely missed it!

I was hoping for a positive change with the departure of Bob Brown. But we’ve seen NOTHING of the sort!

This country desperately needs a strong third party, which runs counter to the never-ending rapid-expansion in-bed-with-vested-interest-big-business Lib/labs.

But alas, the Greens just aint it!