The Liberal candidate is in a tight race against independent Monique Ryan. Follow today’s live news and reaction to the 2025 Australian federal election<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/07/results-2025-federal-election-live">Full federal election results: live Australian Senate seat count</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul>Max Chandler-Mathers on housing: Labor refused to negotiate then told media the Greens were blocking their billsAsked about criticism that the Greens slowed down progress on housing on Triple J Hack, Max Chandler-Mather said Anthony Albanese was “basically saying that, and it just wasn’t true, but then the media repeated as fact”.It was odd for me, I have to say, because I would be sitting in a negotiating room with the prime minister or with the housing minister, and we’d be privately saying we’re willing to give up everything on our side of negotiations if you just build a bit more public housing. And then they say, ‘Nah, no way, we’re not giving you a thing’. And then they go out into the media and say, ‘The Greens are blocking housing’.In the house, a lot of those things didn’t get across that you were hoping or that you were promising, the rent freezes, the rent caps, the negative gearing changes, the doubling of capital gains tax … That stuff didn’t get across the line, but Labor’s housing policies still did.I’ll be honest, one of the things I’m quite happy about at the moment is I don’t have to spend more time in the House of Representatives, because, like, basically every time I stood up, I got screamed and yelled at. In terms of a workplace, it was bloody awful, and frankly, a lot of the times miserable.The only reason I kept going back because it felt like we were one of the few voices fighting for millions of people who feel really let down by this political system … <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/07/australia-news-live-flu-election-undecided-seats-kooyong-monique-ryan-melbourne-adam-bandt-greens-liberal-leadership-anthony-albanese-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>

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Max Chandler-Mathers on housing: Labor refused to negotiate then told media the Greens were blocking their bills
Asked about criticism that the Greens slowed down progress on housing on Triple J Hack, Max Chandler-Mather said Anthony Albanese was “basically saying that, and it just wasn’t true, but then the media repeated as fact”.
It was odd for me, I have to say, because I would be sitting in a negotiating room with the prime minister or with the housing minister, and we’d be privately saying we’re willing to give up everything on our side of negotiations if you just build a bit more public housing. And then they say, ‘Nah, no way, we’re not giving you a thing’. And then they go out into the media and say, ‘The Greens are blocking housing’.
In the house, a lot of those things didn’t get across that you were hoping or that you were promising, the rent freezes, the rent caps, the negative gearing changes, the doubling of capital gains tax … That stuff didn’t get across the line, but Labor’s housing policies still did.
I’ll be honest, one of the things I’m quite happy about at the moment is I don’t have to spend more time in the House of Representatives, because, like, basically every time I stood up, I got screamed and yelled at. In terms of a workplace, it was bloody awful, and frankly, a lot of the times miserable.
The only reason I kept going back because it felt like we were one of the few voices fighting for millions of people who feel really let down by this political system …
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The 2025 Australian federal election results are still being tallied, with a tight race between the Liberal candidate and independent Monique Ryan. Meanwhile, Greens' Max Chandler-Mather criticizes Labor for refusing to negotiate on housing policies while accusing them of misleading the media.  

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Trump administration launches review after what it calls ‘recent incidents of antisemitic violence’ at schoolThe Trump administration has launched a review into what it describes as “recent incidents of antisemitic violence” at the University of Washington and its affiliates following a pro-Palestinian protest there on Monday that led to about 30 arrests.On Monday, protesters associated with the student group Super UW&nbsp;– short for Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/protesters-arrested-university-washington-boeing">temporarily occupied</a> the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building on the university’s Seattle campus. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/trump-university-of-washington-antisemitism">Continue reading...</a>

Trump administration launches review after what it calls ‘recent incidents of antisemitic violence’ at school
The Trump administration has launched a review into what it describes as “recent incidents of antisemitic violence” at the University of Washington and its affiliates following a pro-Palestinian protest there on Monday that led to about 30 arrests.
On Monday, protesters associated with the student group Super UW – short for Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return – temporarily occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building on the university’s Seattle campus.
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The Trump administration has initiated a federal review of the University of Washington following a pro-Palestinian protest organized by the student group Super UW, which resulted in approximately 30 arrests. The review cites concerns over "recent incidents of antisemitic violence" linked to the demonstration.  

University of Washington faces federal review after pro-Palestinian protest

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Vice-president also jokes about his confrontational speech at Munich security conference, telling interviewer US and Europe ‘got a little bit off track’<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/biden-accuses-trump-of-modern-day-appeasement-towards-russia">Biden accuses Trump of ‘modern-day appeasement’ towards Russia</a></li></ul>Britain is in “active discussions” with US officials over the extraordinary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-tariffs-foreign-movies">100% tariff on all movies produced outside the US</a> proposed by Donald Trump, as it tries to protect one of its biggest creative industries.“We are already in active discussions with the top of the US administration on this subject. We are working hard to establish what might be proposed, if anything, and to make sure our world-beating creative industries are protected,” creative industries minister Chris Bryant told parliament. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/07/donald-trump-joe-biden-us-president-latest-politics-live-news">Continue reading...</a>

Vice-president also jokes about his confrontational speech at Munich security conference, telling interviewer US and Europe ‘got a little bit off track’

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Britain is in “active discussions” with US officials over the extraordinary 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the US proposed by Donald Trump, as it tries to protect one of its biggest creative industries.
“We are already in active discussions with the top of the US administration on this subject. We are working hard to establish what might be proposed, if anything, and to make sure our world-beating creative industries are protected,” creative industries minister Chris Bryant told parliament.
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Vice President Vance emphasized the strong friendship between the US and Europe while acknowledging Trump’s push for greater self-reliance in defense. He humorously referenced his contentious speech at the Munich security conference, suggesting US-Europe relations had strayed slightly. Meanwhile, Biden criticized Trump’s approach to Russia as "modern-day appeasement," and Britain engaged in talks with US officials over Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on foreign-produced films, aiming to safeguard its film industry.  

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