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"Earlier this year, as the Victorian Greens mapped out their election strategy,
a video from New York caught party leader Ellen Sandell’s eye.
In it Zohran Mamdani, the city’s new mayor, announced he was making good on his
plan to “tax the rich” through a new levy on second properties worth more than
$5m.
Sandell says a similar idea had already been “tossing around” inside the party.
On Monday, the Victorian Greens will unveil their own version: a new land tax
bracket on investment property holdings worth more than $5m, with the proceeds
helping to fund a doubling of public housing and the scrapping of stamp duty
for first home buyers.
The proposal is the latest example of the Victorian Greens borrowing ideas from
the new generation of progressive politicians gaining traction overseas. Last
month, the leader of the Green party of England and Wales, Zack Polanski,
addressed his counterparts in Australia, urging them to directly take One
Nation on as he had with Reform.
Sandell says by following their example, the Greens can present voters with a
“genuinely progressive, hopeful and bold” alternative to the major parties.
But with the populist right on the rise in the form of One Nation, some
political observers remain sceptical the Greens will be able to lift its vote
high enough to achieve its goals."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
