72: Rent Freeze Pixie Dust

Omg Tom and Emerald are in the same room, live, in real life! Emerald and Tom catch up on the state of the housing bill and another big Adam Bandt National Press Club speech (4:44). Then they talk about the push to raise the age for both parenting payments and child incarceration (35:02). Finally, a call to action (58:41). Full video version of this episode available on https://www.youtube.com/c/SeriousDangerAU  Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and check out all our bonus Patreon eps with guests like Michael Berkman, Wil Anderson, Cam Wilson, Tom Tanuki and Jon Kudelka, and deep dives into topics like psychedelic-assisted therapy, killer robots (with Emerald’s sister!), a debrief of the 2022 federal results, whether the Greens are too woke, the 18-year plan for Greens government, whether lawns should be banned, Greens memes, bad takes, Joe Hildebrand’s small brain, CPAC, Aussie political sketch comedy, internal Greens party shenanigans, and whether a Greens government would lead to the apocalypse. https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU  Full video of Adam Bandt at Press Club - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Oq0NdKiwo  ABC Infographic on Stage 3 tax cuts - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/stage-three-tax-cuts-to-scale/102268304 Contact your local Labor MP or Senator and ask them to support the Greens’ demands for a national rent freeze and plan for renters, $5B direct investment in public and affordable housing per year, doubling rent assistance. Find more info and messaging here - https://greens.org.au/housing or on Max Chandler-Mather’s Twitter @MChandlerMather  Email the Premier and Attorney-General in your State or Territory and tell them to raise the age to at least 14 with no exceptions - https://raisetheage.org.au/take-action/write-to-your-mp  Join a May Day/ Labour Day march near you on Monday - https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/may-day-2023   Have the Friendly Jordies crowd turned? - https://twitter.com/PostingGeneral/status/1651367054199631878?s=20  Produced by Michael Griffin Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Patreon @SeriousDangerAUSupport the show: http://patreon.com/seriousdangerauSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.