Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. HE drives the prime minister nuts. Anyone can see that.
And Anthony Albanese isn’t alone. The entire Labor caucus seems to loathe Max Chandler-Mather, as do most members of the Liberal-National opposition. When the first-term Greens MP rises to address the House of Representatives, jeering erupts on both sides of the chamber.
“It starts almost as soon as they set eyes on him, certainly when he gets up to speak,” says his Greens colleague, Elizabeth Watson-Brown, who sits next to Chandler-Mather in the House. At times the sound rises to a cacophony, she says. “It’s almost like howling.
Absolutely bestial.” At least two MPs – the Liberal National Party’s Michelle Landry and independent Helen Haines – have gone to the Speaker, Milton Dick, to raise concerns about the level of hostility directed at the young Queenslander. Stephen Bates, a fellow Green, sometimes drops into Chandler-Mather’s Parliament House office to monitor his welfare.
“Obviously, it’s pretty messed up, being screamed at in your workplace,” Bates tells me. “I go in and check on him: ‘How are you doing?’ ” Here’s the thing, though. Chandler-Mather appears to be doing just fine.
“He’s always in a good mood,” Bates says. “He’s very hard to break, is what I’ll say. They keep trying but they haven’t broken him and I don’t think they will.
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