Greens leader Adam Bandt is campaigning in Wills today, which is one of the party’s target seats.

Labor MP Peter Khalil is under real pressure from the Greens candidate Samantha Ratnam in that seat, and Bandt says the Greens see opportunity. Especially when it comes to housing. Bandt said in a release:

Renters and people in mortgage stress will determine the outcome of the federal election, and they can tell you tinkering around the edges has not made housing affordable. In a wealthy country like ours, everyone should be able to afford a roof over their head, but in 2025 people are still being smashed by sky high rents and mortgages. Nothing changes if nothing changes – we can’t keep voting for the same old two parties and expecting a different result.

The Greens are campaigning as a bloc in Victoria, where they are also aiming to win Macnamara from Labor’s Josh Burns. Burns seems (at this point) to be in a safer position than Khalil, but there are a lot of days left in this campaign.