The workers who produce our country’s wealth deserve decent wages, secure housing, and quality public services.
Hi, I'm Renee. I'm running in this year's state election as a candidate for Mildura with Victorian Socialists because I believe in a society that puts people before profit.
Growing up in Robinvale, I saw first hand the inequality across the Mallee. My grandparents migrated to the region to pick grapes, and it is a disgrace that decades later the same industry still relies on exploited migrant labour while agriculture bosses rake in enormous profits.
The workers who produce our country’s wealth deserve decent wages, secure housing, and quality public services.
Decades of Coalition and Labor governments have overseen regional communities being hit the hardest by the cost of living crisis. Housing and healthcare is becoming increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible, grocery prices are soaring and essential services like energy and water have been sold off to private companies.
At the same time, far-right politicians like Pauline Hanson are trying to scapegoat migrants for the problems created by the government and big business. In a wealthy society like Australia, everyone should have the chance to live a decent life.
I'm running because I want to fight for the construction of new public housing, fully funded regional hospitals and healthcare, strong rights for farm and migrant workers, and public ownership of essential services.
I will also demand genuine justice for Indigenous communities. Across the Mallee, Aboriginal communities continue to face the legacy of invasion, dispossession and decades of neglect in housing, healthcare and jobs. I will fight for more investment to address socio-economic outcomes, land theft reparations for Indigenous communities, and an end to the modern day stolen generation through the out-of-home care scheme.
I am a history student and have been a community activist for several years, including being an organiser in Melbourne’s Palestine solidarity movement, and campaigning alongside refugees demanding permanent protection in this country.
If elected in November, I’ll fight for our community and for the better, fairer and more sustainable society that we need and deserve.