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David Grant

Australian Labor Party candidate for Hume

Why I am standing

Over the past decade I have become increasingly of the view that Australia has lost sight of our great sense of fair play, of standing up for the battler, the underdog. We lost it in the international arena with the politics of fear and the vilification of those who are different from us. We lost it nationally with the politics of division and envy when the rights of working people were reduced in the name of advancing the economy, when the needs of the sick, of the aged became little more than a political football, with the turning away from investing in the education of our youth, the skilling of our nation and the building of our infrastructure.

I am standing for Labor in Hume to contribute to a return to fairness – fairness in the workplace, fairness in the delivery of health and aged care services regardless of your capacity to pay or where you live, fairness in access to education regardless of your socio-economic circumstances, fairness in how we care for those impacted by drought, in how we address the need to move to sustainable and renewable energy sources, in how we address the needs of rural communities.



The practical imperative includes efforts in re-evaluating the needs of our health care system from basics, in renewing our efforts to provide opportunity to our youth through education, in bringing balance back into industrial relations, in addressing local needs like a safer Barton Highway. The underlying driver in my seeking to represent the people of Hume is a desire to again see an Australia that is generous of spirit and just in nature.

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Other Candidates

CLARK, Jim - GRN
COSGROVE, Lindsay - CEC
PEET, Geoff - CDP
* SCHULTZ, Alby - LP
TRENT, Cathy - FFP

* incumbent