Residential property ownership (or the lack of it) divides Australia along generational lines. That is a truth as evident within political parties as outside them.

In a joint release with party leader Adam Bandt last week, issued just ahead of the shock interest rate hike and with the Greens still poised to block the government’s new housing bill in the Senate, Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather called (again) for a national rent freeze.