Max Chandler-Mather

Max Chandler-Mather
MP
Max Chandler-Mather MP
Member of the Australian Parliament for Griffith
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 21 May 2022
Preceded by	Terri Butler
Personal details
Born	15 February 1992 (age 32); South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Political party	Greens (since 2016)
Other political; affiliations	Labor (until 2013)
Residence(s)	Woolloongabba, Queensland
Education	Brisbane State High School
Alma mater	University of Queensland
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Website	www.maxchandlermather.com

He is the Greens member for the Division of Griffith following the 2022 Australian federal election, having defeated the incumbent Labor Party member Terri Butler.

A resident of Woolloongabba, Chandler-Mather is a member of the Queensland Greens and worked for the party prior to being elected to parliament.

Early life and career

Chandler-Mather grew up in the suburb of West End. His parents, Tim Mather and Kim Chandler, were members of the Labor Party (ALP).

Chandler-Mather completed a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History at the University of Queensland. While at university Chandler-Mather was a member of the Labor Party (ALP), and a member of the Labor Left faction, after being encouraged to join by his parents. During this time, he worked part-time as a call centre worker at the trade union United Voice. Chandler-Mather quit the party in 2013, stating in 2022 that he could not remain as a member of the Labor Party following Kevin Rudd's establishment of off-shore detention centres in Nauru.

After graduating, Chandler-Mather was a trade union organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union.

Despite not being a member of the Greens at the time, Chandler-Mather was employed as Jonathan Sriranganathan's campaign manager for his successful 2016 campaign for Brisbane City Council. Chandler-Mather and Sriranganathan organised their campaign around the left-wing social theory of the right to the city, arguing that property developers and banks have turned cities such as Brisbane into 'the new factory', resulting in people believing they do not have power over local communities.

Political career

After Sriranganathan's successful campaign, Chandler-Mather was employed as a full-time campaign strategist for the Queensland Greens, and aimed to take the seat of Griffith. Chandler-Mather contested Griffith at the 2019 Australian federal election and achieved a 6.6% swing, but failed to get elected.

Chandler-Mather re-contested Griffith at the 2022 Australian federal election, and won with a 10.9% swing. His campaign was aimed at community engagement with politics, particularly local aircraft noise and housing affordability campaigns, and reportedly had over 1,000 volunteers who door-knocked 29,000 homes. Following his election to the Australian parliament, Chandler-Mather was appointed as the Greens' spokesperson on housing and homelessness.

In May 2023, Independent MP Helen Haines and Liberal National MP Michelle Landry made complaints to the Speaker regarding personal attacks against him by Labor MPs in parliament, described as "vicious" by Haines. The attacks occurred in the context of dispute between Labor and the Greens about housing policy and rent caps.

Political positions

In a 2020 interview with Tom Ballard, Chandler-Mather expressed a desire to turn the Queensland Greens into a mass party that was primarily supported by the working class, though he stated he did not identify as a socialist ideologically, instead claiming that his priorities merely overlapped with what is often perceived as socialism. Chandler-Mather's positions were deemed by the Green Left Weekly to be firmly on the left-wing of the Greens, with him supporting a four-day workweek and public ownership of the electricity and telecommunications industries. Chandler-Mather describes his politics during his time at university as supporting democratic socialism. He has also been described as a left-wing populist.

Electoral history

House of Representatives
Year	Electorate	Party		First Preference Result				Two Candidate Result
Year	Electorate	Party		Votes	%	±%	Position	Votes	%	±%	Result
2019	Griffith		Greens	23,562	23.65	6.67	Third	Excluded
2022	Griffith		Greens	36,771	34.59	10.94	First	64,271	60.46	60.46	Elected
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References

Media related to Max Chandler-Mather at Wiki Commons

Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Terri Butler	Member for Griffith 2022–present	Incumbent

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