RELEASE: Max Chandler-Mather to lead revamped Green Institute
Former Greens MP for Griffith and Greens Housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather has been appointed the Executive Director of The Green Institute, the national research institute for the Australian Greens.
Today, Chandler-Mather relaunches the revamped Institute as a movement building organisation, with the aim of filling critical capacity gaps identified during the 2025 federal election.
Max was previously the strategist for the Queensland Greens between 2017 to 2022, during the most successful period in the party’s history, where they won the state seats of South Brisbane and Maiwar, and three federal seats in 2022.
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Quotes attributable to Max Chandler-Mather, Executive Director of the Green Institute:
“If I learned one thing from my time in Parliament, it’s that Labor and the Liberals really do just work for the same big corporations in the endless pursuit for profit, whether it’s the banks, supermarkets, property developers, or big mining and gas corporations.
“With the Liberals fading away, we need to accept that Labor is now the main party of big business and vested interests, and no amount of pressure or negotiation will get them to change.
“Labor will only tinker around the edges when it is necessary to relieve enough public pressure to avoid making the real big changes this country desperately needs.”
“If we want real change then we need to replace Labor and the Liberals, and keep One Nation away from power. So in re-launching the Green Institute this year, my goal is to help turn the Greens into a mass movement, capable of replacing establishment politics and transforming our economic system in a way that ensures everyone has what they need to live a comfortable, meaningful life, free of financial and housing stress.”
“The reality is if the Greens don’t step up to the challenge, then the void left by Labor and the Liberals will be filled by One Nation, so the task this year is urgent.”
“This year the Green Institute will have three main focusses. One, mobilising volunteers to talk to tens of thousands of people across the country in the largest survey of economic and social life outside of the census. Rather than relying on focus groups and corporate polling, politics done right involves talking to people and actually asking them what they need to live a good life.”
“Two, the Institute will work on developing a broader vision and set of policies that speak to the hopes, desires and needs of the millions of Australians being left behind by a political and economic system that puts corporate profit first and everyday people last.”
“Three, we are going to go to every corner of this country to offer the training, skills and knowledge people need to participate themselves in building a mass movement ready to transform this country for the better.”
“Ultimately, I think Australians are sick of an economic and political system that puts multinational corporate profit ahead of everything else, but replacing that system is going to be hard work.”
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