I’M RUNNING as your Greens candidate for Nicholls because I’m passionate about human rights and the environment – both of which I have been defending for 30 years.
My experience covers a lot of ground. I’ve worked in natural resource management with state government agencies in the Goulburn-Murray and Alpine National Park regions.
I’ve been involved in pest plant and animal control, biodiversity, landcare and irrigation projects during this time.
I have been a small business owner, running a successful bayside horticultural franchise and a costume manufacturing enterprise. I’m familiar with the challenge of balancing full-time work and raising a family.
I’m dedicated to preserving our environment and climate change action.
I have been a sustainability educator in schools and vocational trainer with Corrections Victoria and TAFE.
I’ve worked with the Landcare movement for almost three decades and have been involved in environmental and climate activism from a young age. I currently work in disability support.
For regional Australians – including those in Echuca, Seymour and Kyabram – the Greens have a plan to protect workers’ rights, support small business and the industries of the future, create jobs, close the gender pay gap and plan for the future of work.
We will create a future for all of us by educating, upskilling and protecting people as our industries change.
The Greens will ensure older Australians have safe, affordable aged care, and are able to choose whether to stay at home or to move to residential care.
The Greens have a plan to ensure everyone, regardless of their bank balance or postcode, is able to gain a world-class education and continue learning and upskilling as their life changes.
We’re making an unprecedented investment in public schools of over $20 billion in the next 10 years.
Under our plan, by 2023, every public school in Australia will be fully funded to reach the nationally agreed standard and to meet the educational needs of all students.
We will expand building and infrastructure funding so that the majority of funds go to public schools, remove the artificial cap on federal funding for public education and stop the special deals made by major parties with private schools.
Students leaving university or TAFE now face greater pressures than ever before, including high youth unemployment and record high housing and living costs.
Our plan will fund unlimited free TAFE and undergraduate university for everyone, increase Youth Allowance by $75 a week, and boost uni funding by 10 per cent to better support students, teachers and staff, so no one leaves uni with an enormous debt that will take a decade to pay off.
We will also work with First Nations People wherever they live, to establish a path for sovereignty and treaties and to close the gap.
Whether a new or old seat, the message is the same; if we want a Parliament that makes decisions in the best interests of the people, we need to vote differently.
If we keep voting how we have always been voting, nothing changes.
This election needs to be the climate election.