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

Right now, this country is run in the interests of billionaires and big corporations. While single parents are forced to make tough choices between feeding their kids or paying the rent, Coles and Woolworths record some of the highest profit margins in the world. While mortgage-holders and renters are up to their eyeballs in rental and mortgage stress, struggling to make that next rent or mortgage payment, the Commonwealth Bank recorded a record half-yearly $5 billion profit off the back of the misery of millions of renters and mortgage-holders. It doesn't have to be this way. It genuinely doesn't. While the people in power and the political establishment may rely on crushing your hope that things can get better, they can. This election, we have a genuine chance to change things for the better. You do not have to choose between going backwards under the Liberals or more tinkering around the edges under Labor. We have a genuine chance to elect a broad progressive minority parliament, where we keep the Liberals and Nationals out but we push Labor to take real action on the issues that matter to people's lives—taxing billionaires and big corporations, bringing dental and mental health under Medicare, starting to treat renters like they deserve to be treated rather than like second-class citizens and taking climate change seriously. If you want all of that, then you have an opportunity this election to vote one Greens and push for real, genuine, positive change.