Hi, I’m Tim!
I grew up in country WA and have lived in Perth for over 20 years. Coming from a single parent household where money was always tight, I know the importance of a strong social safety net, of good public education, and of an accessible health care system that ensures help is available for anyone who needs it.
My mum juggled work with the huge responsibility of raising four children – without a safety net, we would have fallen into poverty and missed out on the opportunities for education, careers and engagement in the community. This safety net is under attack by big property and gas lobbyists, who would like to see our taxpayer dollars funnelled into their private coffers.
Western Australia is a wonderful place to call home, but like anywhere, it is faced with its own set of challenges. I spent six years working on a series of fly-in, fly-out rosters, and know first-hand the effects the mining boom/bust cycle can have on workers and the economy.
When I ran to represent the people living in the East Metropolitan region as a Member of the Legislative Council in the 2017 election, I had only visited Parliament House twice, on high school excursions – politics was never on my radar. But throughout my life I’ve seen the injustices in the way WA is being run, and felt a need to act. I was privileged to be elected by voters in that election, and fought hard for my electorate.
Like 700,000 other Western Australians, I am a renter. I know how WA’s housing market treats renters as second class citizens. Out-of-control rent increases and no-grounds evictions are forcing record numbers of people into homelessness, and putting the Australian dream of owning a home completely out of reach, while successive Labor and Liberal governments have bent over backwards to give their mates in property investment the world on a platter. We deserve better.
The Labor and Liberal parties have proven they want you to settle for business as usual - but business as usual is not working. We need change, and the only way to get change is to vote for it. That’s why, in this election, I am asking for your vote as a member of the WA Legislative Council.
