I want to be able to stand up for and support my community - both the electorate I represent, and the LGBTIQA+ community I'm a part of as a proud trans woman - in what has become a terrifying time for so many reasons.
In Bentleigh, communities have been forced to be constantly aware of both the rising cost of living and the potential rise of the far right. It's also an area that's committed to doing what it can to fight climate change; an issue becoming ever more relevant in local life with the threat of AI data-centres driving up energy and basic resource pricing and eating up our green spaces.
Australia needs leadership willing to support the marginalised and push back against what threatens our lives and wellbeing, and as a Greens candidate I'm ready to do just that.