Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? – video
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The Greens MP points out that where he grew up in West End, Brisbane is now in a part of the city his parents would not be able to afford

Why doesn’t Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet?He responds that he has a small, single-income family and gives up about $50,000 from his annual salary to fund a free meal program in his Brisbane electorate. ‘Because of that, giving up that money, and being on a single income and in an inner city electorate with a very, very high median house price, it is actually sort of difficult at the moment to buy a house there,’ the Greens housing and homelessness spokesperson says.

Well, thank you Max.

  • spiffmeister
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    8 days ago

    Keep Peter Dutton out? The Greens? Consider the seats the Bandt has explicitly said the Greens will target at the next election: Sydney, Macnamara, Wills, Cooper, Richmond. All Labor seats.

    This is true.

    I wouldn’t say they’re cannibalizing the nationally left party though, Labor is centre left at best and we don’t have a purely 2 party system like the US so a left wing party could easily run in coalition. Otherwise you could also make the case that the nats cannibalise the libs.

    which it makes it easier for the right-wing party to become the largest grouping in Parliament and thus best-placed to form government

    If neither major party has the numbers to form majority government next election then they will deal with a minor/independent to form government, the Green’s obtaining more seats means if Labor is serious about forming government they would have to deal with them.