I will run for a Senate seat in the 2025 federal election. I live in Melbourne, so I will be running for a Victorian seat.
I am doing this because women’s voices and needs have been ignored by federal governments for too long.
Women’s safety is not a public relations problem or an election issue. Being safe means being financially, physically, medically, legally, educationally, emotionally, and professional safe. It means being safe in all aspects of our lives from infancy to old age.
We need someone in the parliament who will not allow governments to continue to ignore women’s rights and gender equity. We need someone to provide that perspective on all legislation that goes through the parliament and to amplify the voices of all Australian women and gender diverse people.
With your help, I will be that person in the parliament.
Women still do too much unpaid and underpaid work.
Men’s violence against women at home, at work, and everywhere in between is not just a crime issue.
Current senators and the people I will support with preferences.
WRAGE is inclusive and intersectional.
The federal government desperately needs an anti-corruption body with teeth.
Action on climate change is urgent and cannot wait on idealogical wrangling.
Opinion polls were not wrong in 2019 and they’re not wrong now. They’re just misunderstood. #auspol #ausvotes
The WRAGE party won’t be registered in time for the election, but I am still running as an independent.
Sexual violence in Australia is highly gendered. Courts and police are not fit for purpose. We need an entirely new system.
This was not an isolated incident. It is a pattern of behaviour that demonstrates Scott Morrison’s position on the things women need from government: not his issue, not his problem.
A pre-election announcement (when their support from women is circling the s-bend of Australian politics) about throwing some money at an agency that busies itself with advertising and report writing, and never sets standards or holds government to account is not action. It’s stumping for votes at the cost of women’s lives.
We shouldn’t be afraid to say so.