If elected in November, I will fight against every pro-developer, pro-corporate policy that sells out ordinary working people.
Hi I’m Sagar. I’m running in this November's state election as a candidate with Victorian Socialists because I'm sick of the billionaires and their pet politicians having it all their own way. I want a society that puts people before profits.
I’ve lived in the outer northeast of Melbourne for many years, raising young kids as a stay-at-home dad. In the past I have worked in tertiary education, as a school receptionist and as a factory worker. I have been an active unionist in the NTEU and AMWU, because it’s only when we fight for our pay and conditions that the bosses ever give an inch.
The major parties care more about making the ultra-rich happy, than they do about improving public goods and services like health, education, welfare and housing. When ordinary people complain about our unmet needs, the politicians tell us it’s our own fault for not being rich like them. They blame migrants to sow divisions among us, to stop us uniting to blame the rich.
I’ve been a community activist for many years on issues ranging from opposing the closure of public housing towers, to the criminal inaction on climate change that already impacts Australians every year through bushfires and floods. Most recently, I’ve campaigned to condemn our government’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes in Palestine.
If elected in November, I will fight against every pro-developer, pro-corporate policy that sells out ordinary working people. I will call out every cynical move by the state government to blame migrants for the housing crisis, or to whip up racist hysteria to justify ever more money and powers for the police to harass people of colour.
I believe ordinary working people can make a better society – if we fight for it.