No Reset for Greens, Labor Deadlock Over Housing Crisis

The political divide over housing endures as the Greens challenge the new minister to reconsider the government’s policies, including a rent freeze and more public housing funding. Greens’ housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather said he was “deeply disappointed” with the newly installed housing minister’s response to his calls to return to the negotiation table on fixes to the housing crisis. “It demonstrates again that Labor hasn’t changed any of their failed policies on housing, all they’ve done is they’ve decided to have a new sales person,” he told Sky News on Sunday. Clare O’Neil left the home affairs portfolio and stepped into the housing and homelessness role as part of a ministerial reshuffle last month....