Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

CHANDLER-MATHER () (): My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday you said couldn't organise a national rent freeze, because of the Constitution, but, during the pandemic, national cabinet regulated rentals, with a moratorium on evictions. As well as making proposals to national cabinet, the federal government has the power to offer grants on the condition that states freeze rent increases. The government uses the same power to regulate health and education. With so many renters one rent increase away from eviction, will he finally take national leadership and coordinate a national freeze on a rent increases?

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