Heather Maltby

Hi, I’m Heather, and I’m proud to be running as a Victorian Socialists candidate for the North East Metro upper house region.

I’m a Box Hill renter and tutor maths to high school students. I’m standing in this election because I think that we desperately need to give the boot to the rich, landlord politicians that run things in the interests of big business, with no regard for the needs of the majority of working-class people.

I regularly see elderly people in the area carrying big bags of rubbish that they have picked out of other people’s bins so that they can deposit them each for 10c through the container deposit scheme, because they can’t afford to live on the pension.

This is in a wealthy country where corporations like Coles and Woolworths have made record profits in the last few years, and yet people who have worked their whole lives are not provided with what they need to live.

We need to double the pension and make childcare free. Another issue that is really important to me is the genocide in Gaza. The Australian government continues to be complicit in the genocide by sending both military intelligence and parts of weapons to Israel. Another main issue is the housing crisis. We need to freeze rents and hold landlords accountable for the dodgy condition that they leave their properties in.

If I’m elected to parliament in November, I’ll fight for our community and for the better, more equal and sustainable world we need and deserve.