Greens Chief Adam Bandt says his occasion will prioritise points corresponding to local weather motion, bettering the price of residing, and never buying and selling off trans proper as a part of his election plan.
9 Political Editor Chris Uhlmann spoke to Mr Bandt on At present, asking him about all issues coverage forward of the upcoming Could 21 federal election.
Mr Bandt advised Uhlmann a precedence of his occasion in the event that they held stability in each the Higher and Decrease Homes of parliament was "tackling the local weather disaster by placing a cease to new coal and gasoline initiatives".
"I feel we will all agree that we should not be capable to put petrol on the fireplace once we are attempting to place it out," he stated.
Mr Bandt added that tackling the price of residing was one other main precedence for him.
"We need to try this by getting dental and psychological well being into Medicare, fixing the housing affordability disaster, wiping scholar debt and likewise push without cost childcare," he stated.
When Uhlmann requested how Mr Bandt deliberate on paying for the above-mentioned initiatives, he stated it got here all the way down to "companies and billionaires".
"By making the firms and billionaires pay their fair proportion of tax. For the time being, [some] huge companies on this nation pays no tax in any respect. So simply by closing a variety of the loopholes, making them pay their fair proportion we will do issues, get dental into Medicare that can make a distinction to lots of people.
"We're speaking huge companies just like the banks and Apple that in lots of cases make large earnings right here and ship."
earnings offshore and do not pay their fair proportion of tax.
Mr Bandt additionally touched on the subject of transgender rights.
Mr Bandt stated that in terms of trans rights and ladies's rights he "would not settle for the answer is you commerce one group off towards one other".
"What actually issues me, and I've seen this with the wedding equality debate, I'm seeing it once more now, when you might have conservative governments which might be behind within the polls as a result of they're pushing up the price of housing; they're failing to cope with the price of residing. What they do is at all times attempt to change it on to one thing else.
"They attempt to discover a group in want of help and pit the group towards one other," he stated.