Albanese reveals Labor candidate to contest Kevin Rudd’s old seat

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As Labor assembles its “Greenslide” fightback, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has introduced a youth mental health chief executive to take on the Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather in the inner-city seat of Griffith.

A youth mental health manager is federal Labor’s choice to wrest back from the Greens the inner-city seat of Griffith where Kevin Rudd once pushed to become Labor prime minister.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Renee Coffey, Labor’s candidate for the Greens-held seat of Griffith, now held by The Greens Max Chandler-Mather.Labor had already announced radiographer Madonna Jarrett to contest the inner-city seat of Brisbane now held by the Greens’ Stephen Bates, and teacher Rebecca Hack to contest Ryan against former architect Elizabeth Watson-Brown.Labor holds just

Coffey lives at Norman Park and has two young boys and two older girls, she told reporters, adding that her family had lived in the electorate for four generations.“We have an option here in Queensland, in the seat of Griffith, at the next election of voting for more negativity under Peter Dutton ... and their partners ‘in the no-alition’, the Greens political party, who combine with the Liberals so often to oppose measures which are going forward, such as the shared equity scheme for homes.

When asked about the progress to appoint an administrator to the CFMEU, or if a new “racketeering squad” was needed, he said Labor would introduce federal legislation to clean up the Queensland arm of the construction union.

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