“However I think a lot of Green votes went across and parked with Julia and Labor voters came and parked with us.”
Voters did not like the mess Ms Gillard has made of the asylum seeker policy or her discrimination against same-sex couples in marriage laws, Senator Brown said.
The major parties did not realise the importance of climate change and setting a carbon price to voters, he said.
“The big parties are out of kilter with the majority feeling in this country,” he said.
“They need to change and get a carbon price.”
The Prime Minister could not avoid setting a carbon price and if she did it would disadvantage the opposition, Senator Brown said.
“Tony Abbott will be seen as last century, totally out of touch on this issue,” he said.