There may have been some similarities in Greens and Family First policies, but that certainly didn’t influence the pre-election rhetoric. The worst example of this was Wendy Francis, Family First Senate candidate for Queensland, she who equated legalising gay marriage to child abuse. In each of her weekly radio debates with Senate candidates from other minor parties, she never referred to The Greens without calling them “The Radical Greens.” She regularly said that the Greens were the greatest evil facing Australia’s future. Finally, Family First placed The Greens last on their Senate Group Voting Ticket. I’d say that puts them at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

As for “political uneducation”, you might have a point if referring to Australia as a whole. My observation was at one booth only. The demographics would have included lower than average number of young people, unemployed or homeless. It’s a moderately well-off suburb in an outer-metropolitan area populated by teachers, nurses, tradesmen and small-business people; many within a decade of retiring age. I think these folks knew what they were doing.