Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lambasted the Australian Greens for taking a hardline stance on the Housing Affordability Future Fund (HAFF), which could result in a potential double dissolution showdown.
“For the Greens political party, this isn’t about the Australian people. This is about them. They want the issue, not the outcome. They deal in protests; we focus on progress,” the prime minister told Parliament on June 21.
Albanese cited an article by the Greens’ housing spokesperson and MP for the Brisbane seat of Griffith, Max Chandler-Mather, in the Jacobin, a left-wing American socialist journal, while accusing the minor party of trying to gain political traction….