Greens leader Adam Bandt wants to take five key seats from Labor at the federal election – and gaining the loyalty of the union movement is part of his plan.
Greens firebrand Max Chandler-Mather infuriated the government by backing the union’s nationwide protests.
Michael Ravbar says the union faces “the biggest fight we’ve ever had” amid nationwide protests against the construction arm’s takeover.
The Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather is already ramping up pressure on Labor’s new housing minister,Clare O’Neil,just days after she was given the role.
Max Chandler-Mather and Andrew Bragg have little in common - except for a shared conviction that the federal government’s agenda on housing is behind the times.
Max Chandler-Mather is shaking up federal politics with his uncompromising take on the housing crisis.
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Experts say the Greens’ proposal to build 360,000 affordable homes fails to help enough of the nation’s lowest earners,would probably blow out in cost and offers homes to those on high incomes.
A new federal housing department would build 360,000 affordable new homes over five years for people to buy or rent at a net cost of $12.5 billion under the Greens proposal.
The Greens housing spokesman says the empty homes recorded in the census means supply isn’t the cause of the housing crisis. The reality is quite different.
From the Voice to parliament referendum,stabilising relations with China,war in Gaza,the High Court’s curveball on indefinite detention,and a cost of living crisis,it has been a bumper political year.