Comment on Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet?

Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did you miss the news? The Greens have decided to allow those bills to pass.

  But it’s Labor who should be blamed for the long delay. Their steadfast refusal to come to the negotiating table for months and insistence that it must be “their way or the highway” is very reminiscent of the Rudd years, when a Labor PM allowed his personal ego to get in the way of effective policy.

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you miss the news? The Greens have decided to allow those bills to pass.

    They can go fuck themselves to be honest, I cannot believe in a housing crisis the greens are the ones holding up housing of all people…

    For another 204-bed project in the affluent inner Brisbane suburb of Paddington, Bates said a four- to five-storey building was “unacceptable” as it would “dominate the street and public spaces, damaging views”.

    smh.com.au/…/is-it-beautiful-greens-push-nimby-gu…

    To turn into inner city NIMBY’s, I cannot believe it, seems neither can a few other people

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    I’m more interested in how they perform at the next election rather than labor or liberal, we know one of those two will get in (could be either way, inflation appears to be a standing government killer) but the greens is more interesting, will left wing progressives who love Gaza really have that big of an influence and gain them seats or will they finally become as relevant as one nation? I can’t wait to find out

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    • spiffmeister@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They can go fuck themselves to be honest, I cannot believe in a housing crisis the greens are the ones holding up housing of all people…

      I worry that a lot of people will feel the same.

      Do you think if the greens just waved through the haff as-is, we would have gotten $2B extra for public housing? This funding only came after the Greens blocked the haff with extra funding a demand (though I know Labor take all the credit for it).

      This is how independents and minor parties work, they can’t pass their own bills so they have to negotiate by holding government bills up.

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      • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This funding only came after the Greens blocked the haff with extra funding a demand (though I know Labor take all the credit for it).

        No shit, I’m blocking the road so you’ll have to go around me doesn’t quite sell we’re in favour of building does it? nor when you become inner city nimbys fussing over every minor detail and potentially could be in order to block building

        “And our government is not going to wait around while members of the Greens political party call for more housing in the media while opposing it in their electorates and voting against it in the parliament,”

        smh.com.au/…/pm-offers-2b-for-new-homes-ups-press…

        The Greens had been particularly savage about Build to Rent, which they insisted was pro-developer, would would drive gentrification, and would push rents up to benefit “corporate landlords” (if landlords are the villains of the Greens worldview, corporate landlords as boss-level baddies). Nonetheless, the Greens say they will now “wave through” such terrible legislation.

        …com.au/…/greens-declare-victory-labor-housing/

        vote for the greens is a vote for the liberals

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    • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      will left wing progressives who love Gaza really have that big of an influence

      Labor have dropped the ball on a few of their assumed voter bases, people concerned about Gaza/Lebanon/etc. is one and another sizable group will be unionists. The dodgy CFMEU administration has taken many Labor voters in my union by surprise, and in at least some of their rallies the speakers have called for voting for further-left parties, suggesting the Greens as an example.

      Looking at NSW and Victoria council election results, I expect the Greens will gain votes and maybe even a seat or two, I doubt there will be drastic gains or losses.

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      • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Looking at NSW and Victoria council election results, I expect the Greens will gain votes and maybe even a seat or two, I doubt there will be drastic gains or losses.

        Gain votes? A seat or two?

        In turn, the Greens say they have adopted a new spirit of “good-faith negotiations” with the government just weeks after suffering electoral setbacks in Queensland, the ACT, and in some local government battles. They fear those losses were because voters regarded the party as playing an obstructionist or “wrecking” role rather than achieving goals.

        www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/…/104680818

        I wish we had a remind me in 6 months

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