Max Chandler-Mather pitches Mamdani-style $25bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets

Former MP and Greens Institute head says proposal for publicly owned supermarket chain will ease grocery prices

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More than 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets would be nationalised, and hundreds of government grocery stores opened, under a $25bn plan being put forward by former Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather.

Channelling New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for publicly owned grocery stores, Chandler-Mather, the head of the party’s thinktank, the Greens Institute, wants to use new forced divestiture laws to take over major supermarket sites and three distribution centres.

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