Bill Shorten accuses Greens of ‘unholy alliance’ with Coalition to delay government’s Help to Buy scheme
The Greens’ housing spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather, said negotiation over the government’s stalled housing legislation ‘doesn’t have to be a fight’.The Greens’ housing spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather, said negotiation over the government’s stalled housing legislation ‘doesn’t have to be a fight’.
“The Greens accept we won’t get everything we want, but perhaps Labor can try and understand why we won’t just accept a scheme that leaves behind 99.8% of renters and drives up house prices in the middle of a massive housing crisis destroying millions of lives.”, Labor’s employment minister, Murray Watt, said in addition to blocking the bill the Greens also “continue to campaign against new housing in their own electorates”.
“to have more public, social and affordable housing so our city doesn’t become the exclusive purview of the rich”. The Greens have claimed Labor is cherry-picking projects and ignoring that Labor politicians had also raised concerns. “In December last year, the member wrote to the Brisbane city council, complaining the project … would ‘diminish the natural character of the site,’ because it’s much more important to have a disused chicken farm than it is to have 91 new homes, which, on the other hand, the Greens say that they want to do.”
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