Not true. They nearly picked up two lower house seats last time. Balmain was very close and marrickville would have gone green if their candidate hadn't made a complete goose of herself trying to get the council she was on to BDS Israel.
*If there hadn't been a complete scare campaign around BDS.
Given the Labor councillors had voted for BDS too but were just thrown under by a ridiculously hypocritical campaign ("Councils shouldn't be involved in world politics" from the Tebbutt camp when she as Mayor instituted a similar boycott on Burma that remains non-controversially in place).