It looks as if there is an issue about how Labor should preference in the seat of Macnamara and whether their how to vote card should show the Greens above the Liberals. This is because supposedly the Greens are extremely repulsive to the high percentage of Voters who are Jewish in the seat because of the Greens stance on the Israel/Hamas Conflict. However, this was the same case that has been made at previous elections as well.
I can’t actually see how Labor voters in Macnamara put their preferences at the last election for the House of Representatives election. However, all their votes for the senate have kindly been provided by AEC in massive CSV file.
From this I was able to discover there were 25,790 voters in Macnamara who put a 1 in the box for Labor above the line on the senate ballots. This was 27.3% of the vote.
Of those 25,790 Above the line votes for Labor, 17,740 put a number 2 in the box for the Greens (68.8%).
An additional 1,664 Labor voters gave their number two to the someone other than the Greens or the Liberals, then gave their number 3 to the Greens (6.4%). Likewise, 776 voters (3.0%) gave their 4 to the Greens without voting the Liberals before them. The figure for 5 was 446 voters (1.7%) and for 6 it was 317 (1.2%). Thus over 80% of Labor above the line voters preferred the Greens over the Liberals.
There were however some Labor voters who clearly did not like to do this. 789 voters voted 1 for Labor and 2 for the Liberals above the line. This 3.1% of Labor above the line voters. So there is a group of voters who feel passionately about this but there numbers are not great.
But what about below the line votes? There were about 1,300 votes for Labor candidates below the line, so quite a small number compared to the above line votes.
In conclusion, it might be issue for some voters but it is probably not worth the trouble that not preferencing the Greens would bring in media coverage of the issue.
Note: I am counting ballots were later ruled invalid so my numbers will not line up with the official results. I am doing this because I was looking for intent more than the actual result.