A Greens lord mayoral candidate has pledged a $40 million plan which will see Brisbane City Council “pay the rent” through grants to Indigenous organisations.
Former councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan launched his bid for the top job on Sunday, taking on incumbent LNP Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner and Labor’s Tracey Price at the March 16 mayoral election.
“I think people are starting to recognise that the Greens are a serious alternative to Labor and the Liberals,” he said. “I’m really keen to encourage all of us who are connected to the Greens and to these political movements to … think deeply about what it means to participate in systems which are complacent in the ongoing oppression of First Nations people. It’s a difficult tension to navigate and we need to be honest about that tension rather than pretend it doesn’t exist.”
“I believe that housing should not be treated as a speculative commodity to make profit from,” he said in a statement on the Queensland Greens website.
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