With the Greens blocking the government's Housing Affordability Future Fund, the party's 32-year-old housing and homelessness spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather, has found himself at the centre of one of the biggest legislative stoushes of recent years.
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00:00 What sort of government is it that can't guarantee a cent, a single cent for public and affordable housing
00:06 but can guarantee
00:08 254 billion dollars for everyone in this place to get nine thousand dollars extra a year from tax
00:13 You stand here and you think and you think that it's good enough to give yourselves tax cuts while this is happening to people in this
00:26 country, how dare you
00:28 They care more about retweets than renters, they care more about TikTok than housing stock
00:53 I seek leave to table an article by Max Chandler-Mather
00:58 published in the Jacobin magazine
01:01 in which he says
01:04 consequently if the Greens were to wave through the half bill it would foreclose on the
01:09 possibility of building the social and political pressure needed to force the government to take meaningful action and goes on to say
01:17 Mr. Speaker
01:19 While Parliament has debated the half, the Greens have also launched a national door-knocking campaign
01:25 targeted Labor federal electorates. Mr. Speaker, this article, this article
01:32 exposes the political motive of the Greens political party and this member in opposing public housing
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