To the questions: Where is Max Chandler-Mather?

Bandt:

Max Chandler-Mather has helped us craft this policy and is the reason that we are having a national discussion about how to make sure that renters and first-home buyers have a chance. Finally, thanks to the advocacy of Max Chandler-Mather – backed by all of us, the third of the country who rents now has a voice at the table.

We are campaigning right across the country, and we take nothing for granted in any of our seats, especially people who’ve been elected for the first time.

And people are out busy campaigning, just as we saw Max Chandler-Mather, Elizabeth Watson-Brown and Stephen Bates during the course of the recent floods and threats in Brisbane working side by side with their community to make sure they are prepared. I think people in Griffith know that Max is in their corner, and they know that the Greens are there to campaign and fight for them, and he has helped ensure that we are having a debate about housing and intergenerational fairness in this country in a way that no-one else has.

I thank him for helping us develop this policy – this policy that will protect mum-and-dad investors, but also ensure that renters and first-home buyers have a chance. The Greens are the party of renters and first-home buyers thanks, in large part, to the work, the terrific work, he’s done as our Housing spokesperson.