Flush from winning three seats in Brisbane, Bandt debunked the myth that sunshine state residents are conservative
Tongue in cheek, Bandt thanked the airport for a “seamless entry into Brisbane” and for providing him the day’s platform, while acknowledging action on aircraft noise was something “we are going to push during this term of parliament”.
“The Greens will not support a Labor budget based on cuts that hurt everyday people while continuing the handouts to billionaires,” he said. However, Bandt said his party would not block supply and was open to working constructively with the Albanese government, which he implored to drop its “my way or the highway approach”.Queensland had recognised the faults in that system, he said, and was poised to become, in many respects, “the most progressive state in the country”.
The Melbourne MP said people in inner Brisbane, but also right across Queensland, had a “better understanding that politics was broken and not working for everyday people and was just delivering for vested interests”.And the Greens had tapped into that sentiment in Brisbane withThat, he said, would prove a template for federal, state and local elections.