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The most hated Queenslander outside of the rugby league is today continuing his stubborn campaign against the Labor Party’s lip service to Australian renters, as South Brisbane MP Max Chandler-Mather rag-dolls the Labor Party’s piss-weak ‘housing bill’ like Gorden Tallis in 2002.
The predominantly New South Wales-based Labor Party have a lot of reasons to hate Max Chandler-Mather.
Starting with the fact that he’s a member of the new Queensland Greens that shit it in during the 2022 Federal Election, winning three seats and putting themselves in the very powerful position of being able to negotiate the terms of every piece of legislation the government presents to Parliament.
They also hate that he seems to relish in the fact that his parents gave him a hyphenated last name, and has thick enough skin to cop every ‘yuppie’ sledge they send his way.
Not to mention the fact that he stole an effectively very safe Labor seat from one of their most loyal MPs, in the electorate previously held by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
But what shits them the most is that he is digging his heels in on this housing bill, which could’ve been passed a week ago if there weren’t any actual renters in Parliament House willing to run the ball for the one-third of Australians who live at the mercy of landlords who have full license to jack up rents as high as they want in an effort to avoid any extra costs incurred by their own decision to hoard the nation’s wealth with property investment portfolios.
The Greens have refused to sign off on the bill because they do not agree with the Labor Party’s idea of ‘affordable’ housing, which as far as anyone can tell – is just more houses for rich boomers and well-heeled investors to snap up in an already manipulated market, and more contracts for property developers to get rich off.
The Greens want National Cabinet to impose rent freezes – and the immediate development of PUBLIC housing in their own inner-city electorates – in return for their support of the housing bill.
The Labor government has responded to this rag-dolling by accusing Max Chandler-Mather of not caring about people trying to flee domestic violence in 5 years time. They’ve also made fun of his name, and threatened to call an early election – which probably wouldn’t go so well for them in the middle of this cost of living crisis that appears to be exasperated by slum lords who’s investments are at risk because the entire economy had to shut down for two years to save them from a scary virus.
