Australian Politics

Today [April 8th], 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.

The release is short, I recommend reading all the quotes, but here are some critical ones:

“This year the Green Institute will have three main focuses. 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.”