The Greens are doubling down on their demand for a two-year rent freeze and an end to negative gearing tax breaks for landlords even though several senators own multiple investment properties.
The party’s deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi is a particularly savvy investor, owning with her husband Omar an inner-city Sydney terrace now worth an estimated $1.9million, a house near popular Lighthouse Beach in Port Macquarie, on the NSW mid-north coast, and land in Pakistan.
Senator Nick McKim, who is also