The progressive party, which usually garners a significant vote in the territory but has never held an ACT House or Senate seat, is holding its official ACT federal election campaign launch on Sunday in Glebe Park.

The Greens are running former public servant and academic Tjanara Goreng Goreng in the ACT senate race and they have their best chance vying for a Reps seat, with Mr Hollo taking on Labor's one-term incumbent Alicia Payne in the seat of Canberra.

Mr Hollo, who received a 5 per cent swing to him in 2019, said the mood in Canberra has changed and insists both the Morrison government and Federal Labor are electorally on the nose. The long time environmental campaigner and former federal Greens staffer is expecting the votes of the major parties will be suppressed while the votes for the Greens and independents lift.

"I'm hearing a very strong feeling that 'we need to get rid of this government' but I'm also hearing a very powerful 'pox on both their parties' feeling in the electorate," he told The Canberra Times. "And I've been hearing that for many, many months now and it hasn't really shifted."

"This idea that we absolutely need to get rid of this corrupt, incompetent, disastrous government, but the alternative is not particularly inspiring and particularly for Canberrans, who the number one issue by a country mile is the climate crisis."

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The executive director of the Green Institute said both the Coalition and Labor's climate policies heading into the election are not enough.

"We need climate action urgently now," he said. "The only way we can get that from the next parliament is if we have a whole lot of Greens in both the houses, to boot this government out and hold the next government's feet to the fire to actually deliver action on climate."

While the Greens vote is generally regarded as plateauing nationally, they have nine senators and one House seat with leader Adam Bandt holding the seat of Melbourne. While the party has never held a federal ACT seat, 2022 candidates are emboldened by a particularly strong showing in the 2020 territory election, which saw an unprecedented six Greens MLAs elected.

"Canberrans as a whole are pretty happy with how we're governed here," he said.

"It's not perfect and of course people have complaints and so they should. It is not perfect but generally people are pretty happy with how Labor and the Greens have worked together cooperatively to get things down. Particularly you see that on climate, they see it on integrity, they see it on things like drug law reform."

Mr Hollo said the Greens' movement in the ACT is healthy as a consequence of the ACT result.

"Not only do we have a whole lot of MLAs and ministers actually doing amazing work and speaking to members of the community day in and day out and getting things done, but we also have a really energised, very large group of volunteers," he said.

"We've got over 700 people who are signed up to volunteer in some way with us in this campaign, whether that be putting yard signs out, or letterboxing, or door knocking or staffing polling booths. We've got the biggest and most well-trained volunteer team that we have ever had."

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