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Max Chandler-Mather
Max Chandler-Mather (/-ˈmeɪðər/ -MAY-dhər; born 15 February 1992) is an Australian former politician who served as the MP for the Division of Griffith from 2022 to 2025. He defeated the incumbent Labor Party member Terri Butler in the 2022 federal election before losing re-election to Labor's Renee Coffey in 2025.
A resident of Woolloongabba, Chandler-Mather is a member of the Queensland Greens and worked for the party prior to being elected to parliament.
Chandler-Mather grew up in the suburb of West End. His parents, Tim Mather and Kim Chandler, were members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He attended Brisbane State High School.
Chandler-Mather completed a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History at the University of Queensland. While at university he was a member of the Labor Party, and a member of the Labor Left faction, after being encouraged to join by his parents. Chandler-Mather quit the ALP in 2013, stating in 2022 that he could not remain as a member of the party following Julia Gillard's reestablishment of off-shore detention centres in Nauru. Chandler-Mather worked part-time as a call centre worker at the trade union United Voice, where he claims senior organisers attempted to pressure him to rejoin the ALP.
After graduating, Chandler-Mather was a trade union organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union.
Despite not being a member of the Greens at the time, Chandler-Mather was employed as Jonathan Sriranganathan's campaign manager for his successful 2016 campaign for Brisbane City Council. Chandler-Mather and Sriranganathan organised their campaign around the left-wing social theory of the right to the city, arguing that property developers and banks have turned cities such as Brisbane into 'the new factory', resulting in people believing they do not have power over local communities.
After Sriranganathan's successful campaign, Chandler-Mather was employed as a full-time campaign strategist for the Queensland Greens, and aimed to take the seat of Griffith. Chandler-Mather contested Griffith at the 2019 Australian federal election and achieved a 6.6% swing, but failed to get elected.
Chandler-Mather re-contested Griffith at the 2022 Australian federal election, and won with a 10.9% swing. Chandler-Mather's 2022 campaign emphasized community engagement, particularly addressing local issues like aircraft noise and housing affordability. According to the Greens' campaign, over 1,000 volunteers participated in door-knocking efforts, knocking 29,000 homes in the Griffith electorate. Following his election to the Australian parliament, Chandler-Mather was appointed as the Greens' spokesperson on housing and homelessness. In this role he advocated for a rent freeze, removing the discount on the capital gains tax, public housing and a government owned property developer.
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Max Chandler-Mather
Max Chandler-Mather (/-ˈmeɪðər/ -MAY-dhər; born 15 February 1992) is an Australian former politician who served as the MP for the Division of Griffith from 2022 to 2025. He defeated the incumbent Labor Party member Terri Butler in the 2022 federal election before losing re-election to Labor's Renee Coffey in 2025.
A resident of Woolloongabba, Chandler-Mather is a member of the Queensland Greens and worked for the party prior to being elected to parliament.
Chandler-Mather grew up in the suburb of West End. His parents, Tim Mather and Kim Chandler, were members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He attended Brisbane State High School.
Chandler-Mather completed a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History at the University of Queensland. While at university he was a member of the Labor Party, and a member of the Labor Left faction, after being encouraged to join by his parents. Chandler-Mather quit the ALP in 2013, stating in 2022 that he could not remain as a member of the party following Julia Gillard's reestablishment of off-shore detention centres in Nauru. Chandler-Mather worked part-time as a call centre worker at the trade union United Voice, where he claims senior organisers attempted to pressure him to rejoin the ALP.
After graduating, Chandler-Mather was a trade union organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union.
Despite not being a member of the Greens at the time, Chandler-Mather was employed as Jonathan Sriranganathan's campaign manager for his successful 2016 campaign for Brisbane City Council. Chandler-Mather and Sriranganathan organised their campaign around the left-wing social theory of the right to the city, arguing that property developers and banks have turned cities such as Brisbane into 'the new factory', resulting in people believing they do not have power over local communities.
After Sriranganathan's successful campaign, Chandler-Mather was employed as a full-time campaign strategist for the Queensland Greens, and aimed to take the seat of Griffith. Chandler-Mather contested Griffith at the 2019 Australian federal election and achieved a 6.6% swing, but failed to get elected.
Chandler-Mather re-contested Griffith at the 2022 Australian federal election, and won with a 10.9% swing. Chandler-Mather's 2022 campaign emphasized community engagement, particularly addressing local issues like aircraft noise and housing affordability. According to the Greens' campaign, over 1,000 volunteers participated in door-knocking efforts, knocking 29,000 homes in the Griffith electorate. Following his election to the Australian parliament, Chandler-Mather was appointed as the Greens' spokesperson on housing and homelessness. In this role he advocated for a rent freeze, removing the discount on the capital gains tax, public housing and a government owned property developer.
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