The Prime Minister and first-term Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather have blown up at each other at the conclusion of Question Time as tensions around public housing boil over.
Relations between the Greens and the Albanese government have soured in recent weeks as the minor party refuses to pass Labor's signature Housing Australia Future Fund , which aims to build 30,000 social and affordable dwellings in its first five years.
“The Prime Minister in Question Time today, in quoting an article I wrote in Jacobin, said that the article said 30,000 homes, that’s what the Prime Minister said, were being opposed,” Mr Chandler-Mather said while looking directly at Mr Albanese, who had begun walking away. Mr Albanese had earlier referenced an article Mr Chandler-Mather wrote in the socialist magazine Jacobin, in which the Greens MP railed against the government's housing bill.
But as the Speaker was about to move to the scheduled order of business, the Prime Minister remerged with the article off the back of a cheer from his Labor colleagues. The first excerpt read: “Allowing the HAFF to pass would demobilize the growing section of civil society that is justifiably angry about the degree of poverty and financial stress that exists in such a wealthy country.”
“And makes it very clear and I’m very happy to table every word of it and I’d encourage people in my electorate to read this because it’s an example of why you should vote Labor and never vote Green.”
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