Melbourne’s west should be a place where everyone, whatever their background, can live a secure and dignified life.
Hi, I’m Dean. I’m proud to be running as a candidate for the Western Metro Region with Victorian Socialists. I’m an IT worker and a trade unionist, and I’m sick of seeing working-class people in Melbourne’s west taken for granted.
Labor has governed in the interests of the banks, developers, supermarkets and other big corporations. Rents and mortgage repayments keep climbing, grocery and energy bills are out of control, and our schools and hospitals are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile the billionaires and big corporations rake in record profits.
The Liberals offer more of the same. One Nation wants us to blame our migrant neighbours for problems caused by the wealthy elite. Their ‘divide and rule’ politics only serves billionaires like Gina Rinehart. Working-class people in the west deserve better than what any of these parties are offering.
I’m not a career politician. For decades I’ve campaigned against war and racism, for a free Palestine, and for real action on climate change. I’ve seen again and again that change comes when ordinary people organise and stand together.
That’s the spirit I want to take into parliament. I’ll fight for a five-year rent freeze and more public housing, properly funded public schools and hospitals, and price caps on supermarket essentials. I’ll also fight to tax the billionaires and big corporations to pay for it.
Melbourne’s west should be a place where everyone, whatever their background, can live a secure and dignified life.
In parliament, I’ll fight for you.