The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday released monthly CPI Inflation data for July, which showed that overall Australian capital city rents rose by 7.6% over the year.
This was up from a 2.0% annual rise a year earlier:
Immediately after the release, housing spokesperson for the Greens, Max Chandler-Mather, Tweeted demanding an immediate rental freeze:
The replies to Chandler-Mather were scathing, with some calling for the Greens to lobby for cuts to immigration, which is running at record levels and driving the rental crisis:
Hilariously, in a recent podcast with The Conversation, Chandler-Mather rejected Coalition claims that the 1.5 million net overseas migration forecasts in the federal budget were too high:
“Migration has always made this country”.
“I speak to a lot of people in my line of work, people in small businesses, aged care facilities or schools or all sorts of areas that need skilled labour, that say that there’s a shortage in Australia at the moment”.
“It makes sense that we invite people in this country to set up their lives here”.
“I think often when the migration debate appears, it often distracts, I think, from the far more important debate, which is how we distribute resources daily in this country”.
The Greens also refuse to acknowledge that the nation’s rapid immigration-driven population growth is having a major negative impact on Australia’s natural environment.
This was made abundantly clear in the latest State of the Environment Report, which rated population growth as having a “very high impact”:
The reality is that the Greens’ immigration policies would exacerbate Australia’s rental crisis as well as degrade the environment even further:
“It’s time for a change – we need an immigration system that puts people first.”
“Our humanitarian intake should be 50,000 places per year, with special intakes for people from Afghanistan and Ukraine.”
So, the Greens support Labor’s Big Australia and also want the humanitarian intake increase by 30,000.
Where will all the extra migrants live? In tents? In cars? On the streets?
At the local level, the Greens are also some of the worst NIMBYs.
Check out Max Chandler-Mather’s protest in his Brisbane electorate against in-fill development:
NIMBY Max Chandler-Mather opposes more housing in his suburb.
The Fake Greens oppose expanding the urban footprint as well as densifying, it seems.
Despite this, they want Australia to house 300,000 new migrants each year without raising rents. It’s nonsensical.
The Greens are so depressingly fake that someone should sue and demand that their name be changed.
They are the furthest thing from an environmental party.
