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Chandler-Mather said the Australian real estate market had not provided buying opportunities for most people.
“Like Brisbane, just under 50% of Griffith homes are tenants,” he said.
“We have seen the biggest rent increases of any capital here in Brisbane, and also the biggest rise in house prices.
“We talked to so many tenants in Griffith, Brisbane and Ryan who said they would vote Green for the first time because we were talking about limiting rent increases and building affordable housing.”
The head of economics and research at the domain, Dr. Nicola Powell, said Brisbane now had the highest population growth of all states, which affected rents.
“I think there are a variety of different things. When you look at the latest population statistics, we have the highest growth of all the states,” he said.
“And the engine of that growth has been interstate migration.”
Former Australian Green and Democrat senator Andrew Bartlett, who won 10.2% of the vote as Brisbane’s 2012 mayoral candidate, said the results of the Brisbane election were a “massive rejection”. of the Liberals “.
“It’s pretty extraordinary,” Bartlett said. “The size of the swing in Queensland and Brisbane is especially strong.”
He noted that the Greens had beaten Pauline Hanson’s One Nation match around Ipswich.
“It’s a true tribute to the great work done by so many people over so many years,” he said. “Not just during the campaign, but for decades, creating an organization capable of campaigning like this.”
The February 2022 floods in southeast Queensland were a catalyst for his campaign, but not a central theme, Bates said.
“People knew the climate crisis was real. Climate change was the issue we raised over and over again, and the floods made it worse.”