MELBOURNE, 17 April, 2026: The Greens, Australia third largest party, has relaunched its think tank ‘Greens Institute’ led by new Executive Director Max Chandler-Mather, with a “with a new mission: to help build the movement we need to replace establishment politics and ensure everyone has what they need to live a comfortable, meaningful life, free of financial and housing stress.”
“Greens Institute; website says, ” The official research institute for the Australian Greens, The Green Institute is a new kind of movement building organisation, one that offers the education, policy, research, strategy, and ideas necessary to win a better future.
We lead debates on critical policy issues, provide deep strategic analysis, and train and educate a new generation of Greens organisers, intellectuals and leaders.
Donations to support The Green Institute’s work are tax deductible for Australian citizens. Support the Green Institute with a donation, or sign up to follow our work and find out how you can be involved.”
The tax-payer funded Greens Institute is the official research and policy think tank associated with the Australian Greens. Founded in 2008, it is an associated entity of the party and functions as a non-profit organisation supporting green politics through education, policy development, research, strategy, training, and movement-building
“Max Chandler-Mather, as the former Greens MP for Griffith and party spokesperson for Housing and Homelessness, Max transformed housing politics in Australia through a national campaign to fight for renters, and secured billions in additional federal funding along the way for public housing. Prior to entering Federal Parliament, Max was the party strategist for the Queensland Greens from 2017-2022 during the party’s most successful period to date, spearheading the strategy that won Greens seats in Queensland Parliament for the first time, and a historic three federal lower house seats in 2022. Now Max brings his wealth of experience as a strategist and campaigner to the Green Institute, and the task of helping build the Greens movement across Australia,” discloses the Institute website.
The Conversation reveals, “
Australian party think tanks are also state-funded. Grants are awarded to the governing party and the major opposition party. Minor parties are eligible if they have at least five members of parliament.For this reason, only Labor (
Chifley Research Centre), the Liberals (
Menzies Research Centre), Nationals (
Page Research Centre) and Greens (Green Institute) have think tanks.”
