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The Greens took Labor to the overpriced woodshed in the six-month housing fight. But will the shift in the end attend the demanding appropriate?
![A coup in Canberra as the Greens become the real opposition 3 Poltics Adam Bandt and Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)](https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20230905001838170821-original.jpg?w=740)
The day past, on the 50th anniversary of the CIA-backed Pinochet coup in Chile, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and the authorities issued stable condemnations of political violence and the cult of the stable man. At some point of it, they potentially had in mind Max Chandler-Mather, the Greens housing spokesman, who has been the public face, and driver of, the birthday party’s campaign to find a better deal on housing out of Labor.
The day past they obtained it, with Top Minister Anthony Albanese committing, by blueprint of clenched enamel, to another billion — or, in Albo-instruct, “another one beeyo* for housing”, a determine like the Hindi “crore”, equal to our “billion”, without note appearing in international discourse — to be spent this one year. Had been Labor figures thinking all the while: “Jeez, I’d like to fall that man out of a helicopter”?
That would maybe presumably be understandable. The Greens contain shellacked Labor on housing and made visible the nature of the Albanese authorities as one contained within the dedication to nationwide militarism and repair to capital. The authorities dedicated to, for US forward defence, an alleged $368 billion (this can blow out to a trillion, sorry, a treeyo, and while it might most likely be discontinued in a decade, this can drain many beeyos in the interim) but its response to the housing disaster was what was claimed to be a $10 beeyo housing fund, the HAFF.
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Man Rundle
Correspondent-at-large
Man Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He is additionally an associate editor at Enviornment Quarterly and contributes to a diversity of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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