Chandler-Mather: New Greens Leader's Populist Push

0:00Max Chandler-Mather, the former Green's fire brand, just took over as executive director of the party's Think Tank, the Green's Institute. His big plan is to fire up a left-wing populist movement in Australia, strong enough to replace labor and go head-to-head with one nation's surge. He's drawing lessons from successes overseas, like New York City Mayor Zoraan Mamdani and the UK Greens, who've climbed past labor and poles by, pushing bold progressive policies. Meanwhile, national poles here show labor-dropping to 29%, the coalition at 22%, and one nation jumping to 24%. Chandler-Mather built his rep-grilling Prime Minister Anthony Alvinese on housing costs during his last term in parliament, but he lost his seat in. The election wipeout that also booted out Green's leader Adam Bant. The party went through some heavy soul-searching, as the majors kept sliding without the Greens gaining ground. During Wednesday, he's re-logging the Institute with two main goals, tearing down neoliberal

1:00pillars like privatized aged care and childcare, and sketching a fresh vision of progressive economic populism, think more public housing and shorter work weeks. This push for a mass movement beyond parliament sets him apart from the new Green's leader Larissa Waters, who's been more deal-making with labor. Blately, but Chandler-Mather insists real change means straight-up replacing the old guard. That's the story for today. Sydney News Today, Driven by AI, I'm Corey with The Story.