I want to help organise people in our community to challenge growing inequality, war, racism, and the climate catastrophe.
Hi, I’m Naomi. I’m running as Victorian Socialists candidate for Brunswick in this November's state election because I want to help organise people in our community to challenge growing inequality, war, racism, and the climate catastrophe.
I think socialist politics gives us the tools we need to understand the horrors of late-stage capitalism and fight for world fit for humanity.
I grew up in the Latrobe Valley and have been an activist for more than 20 years. I've been involved in many community campaigns - including Palestine solidarity, refugee rights, and equal marriage - and I helped to organiser the student protests that defeated the 2014 Abbott/Hockey class-war budget.
When the Hazelwood mine fire - an environmental industrial disaster - occurred in my hometown, I wrote the first news story, called the first protest and helped organise a community campaign that is still ongoing.
My experience has been that it's only when people stand together and fight back against the destructive economic and political realities of capitalism today that we can start to win change.
I work in disability, supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our community. Every day I see the impacts of cuts to public services and the cost of living crisis - cuts that are occurring in the midst of an unprecedented profit-boom for the wealthiest few.
According to a recent report by Oxfam Australia, billionaires in this country increased their average wealth by almost $600,000 a day in 2026. At the same time, the richest of the rich - like mining magnate Gina Rinehart - have been supporting the growth of Trump-style far-right politics.
We desperately need people in parliament who will stand-up to the billionaire class and their political servants in the major parties, and lead a fightback in the interests of working-class people and communities. If I'm elected in November, that's what I'll do.