The Greens’ identity crisis: where to now for a party built on protesting against the status quo?

The Greens lost three out of four of its House of Representatives seats in Melbourne .

The party will need to do some serious soul-searching to determine what went wrong.

It's not just a disappointing result for the Greens , but an anomalous even paradoxical one.

The national first -preference swing against the Greens was just 0.45% .