Exclusive: Two MPs have made complaints to the Speaker of the House of Representatives about “vicious” attacks on first-term Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather amid a stalemate in parliament.
Two MPs have made complaints to the Speaker of the House of Representatives about “vicious” attacks on first-term Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather amid a stalemate in parliament over anIndependent Helen Haines and the Liberal National Party’s Michelle Landry have spoken to Speaker Milton Dick to raise concerns about Labor MPs allegedly personally abusing the Greens’ housing and homelessness spokesman in parliament.
Haines said she had never previously intervened on behalf of another MP, but after watching MPs shout at Chandler-Mather, 31, when he asked a question about Labor’s $10 billion social housing fund, she felt compelled to speak to Dick and believed government MPs breached a new code of conduct for parliamentary standards.
Landry said of the episode: “He was passionate about the story he was telling and they were just into him, and he ended up in tears. There’s been some vicious stuff said.”“I obviously don’t agree with many Greens’ policies. But he’s a young man and I’ve got a daughter the same age … We want to encourage young people into politics.”
The housing policy debate has offered a glimpse of the antipathy Labor figures feel towards the Greens.but many Labor MPs privately and publicly state the Greens are disinterested in practical outcomes and defined by unreasonable policy demands and protests.
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