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Max Chandler-Mather
MP for Griffith

Rent freeze must be on Friday's National Cabinet agenda: Greens

27 April, 2023 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt and housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather have called for a national rent freeze to be implemented by the National ...

Greens rent freeze plan could’ve saved renters almost $5,000 each last year

6 December, 2022 - Updated analysis by the Parliamentary Library estimates that renters across Australia would be $10.7 billion better off if rents had been fro...

Labor’s Housing Accord will only provide 184 new affordable homes

24 November, 2022 - Analysis by the Parliamentary Library suggests that only 2.02% of the one million homes the government’s Housing Accord aims to build over 5...

Cost of negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts to blow out to $157 billion over the next decade

3 November, 2022 - According to analysis performed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, the cost of negative gearing will skyrocket as interest rates rise, reach...

Labor’s 1 million home claim is a complete con job

26 October, 2022 - Lines attributable to Max Chandler-Mather MP, Greens spokesperson for housing and homelessness: Over the last five years the private sector b...

Families link arms to save East Brisbane State School from $2.5b Gabba Olympics disaster

20 October, 2022 - Students, families and community members will rally at East Brisbane State School this morning to fight for the future of their school, under...

Greens set to negotiate with government on housing bill

4 October, 2022 - With the Greens likely to be in balance of power on Labor’s forthcoming housing bill, the Australian Greens Party Room has formally empowered ...

Renters $3000 better off under Greens rent freeze plan

29 September, 2022 - Analysis by the Parliamentary Library estimates that renters across Australia would be $7.1 billion better off if rents had been frozen nat...

Scottish government freezes rents - time for the Federal Labor government to do the same

7 September, 2022 - Today the Scottish government has announced they are freezing rents for all public and private rental properties until March 2023 and bannin...

Greens call for nationwide rent freeze

25 August, 2022 - With the upcoming Jobs Summit and recent Everybody’s Home research detailing the impact the rental crisis is having on the broader economy, Ma...

Labor's plan will only meet 3% of social housing need

11 August, 2022 - Analysis provided by the Parliamentary Library predicts that Labor’s housing plan will deliver only 3% of the social housing Australia will ne...