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Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be fair, Adam Bandt might have pushed the whole charade a bit too far, though, when he declared he would “take the fight to the next election, where we’ll keep Peter Dutton out and then push Labor to act on unlimited rent rises and tax handouts to wealthy property investors”.

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. The Greens will keep Dutton out by… taking seats off Labor. Makes sense. The entire Greens project is to take seats off Labor, understandably. The extent to which a hard-left party cannibalises the vote of a notionally left party, however, matters little to the electability of a right-wing party, beyond the extent to which it makes it easier for the right-wing party to become the largest grouping in Parliament and thus best-placed to form government.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If Labor wanted the support of left-wing voters, maybe they should stop pushing centrist, even right-wing, policies. Consequences, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the greens wanted the support of left-wing voters, maybe they should stop pushing centrist, even right-wing, policies. Consequences, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

No, you are. Checkmate.