I’m a community organiser, activist and law student.
I’ve organised in the climate movement, volunteered at community legal centres and I serve on the board of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. All this experience has taught me that our work and politics are strongest when they are built out from our community. Yet the major parties are prioritising rich property developers and the fossil fuel industry over our communities.
I’ve watched more and more of my friends forced out of Sydney after massive rent hikes, and those still around are working twice as hard just to get by and keep up with price-gouging supermarkets. It doesn’t have to be like this - We can use the billions of tax handouts going to coal, gas and oil corporations to massively expand publicly owned renewables. We can tax the big corporations to bring dental into Medicare and build good quality homes that we can actually afford.
