Hi, I'm Jasmine.
Right now, politics in Australia is run for and by the rich. Major corporations rake in billions while working class communities are left to rot.
I’m running as the Victorian Socialists candidate for Fraser to push for a political revolution which puts working-class people at the centre of decision making in our country - an Australia where no one has to live with the anxiety of struggling just to keep a roof over their head or to feed their family.
I’m a community organiser, a lighting technician working in theatres across Melbourne, and a proud trade unionist. For years I worked for the NSW state emergency services including during major flooding events - helping people left vulnerable to such crises by the neglect of housing and infrastructure.
I’ve campaigned to save Victorian public housing from privatisation, and when more than 80 Altona residents were threatened with eviction by Hobsons Bay Council I helped them defend their right to stay through petitions, protests and grassroots organising.
I’ve campaigned for equal marriage, climate action, Indigenous justice, and for peace and justice for the people of Palestine. I know that by collectively taking a stand, we can make a real difference.
Working-class people are the heart of our society. We make all the gears turn and create all the wealth. But right now, decisions are made for the rich: the highest income brackets are given tax cuts, elite private schools get huge public handouts, and property developers are given free rein.
We’re in the middle of a generational cost of living crisis. Working-class people have to struggle to put a roof over our heads while Anthony Albanese shells out millions for a personal holiday home and almost all new wealth goes to the rich.
It doesn’t have to be like this. I’ll fight for price controls on staple goods, lower mortgage interest rates and caps on rents to make housing affordable. We need a rapid expansion of public housing and to reverse privatisation of core services.
Melbourne’s west is now the fastest growing region in Australia. Greedy developers make huge profits as they throw up new homes without a thought to adequate services. The west is chronically short of hospitals, schools, green spaces and public transport.
We need to turn this around by demanding the government put serious resources into making our neighbourhoods liveable: pushing funding into hospitals, schools and community centres, and reorganising our roads and public transport so that traffic isn’t a nightmare.
We’ve seen how Labor and the Liberals treat ordinary people, and there’s no hope in waiting for them to change. Real change always comes from the bottom up. Together, we can take power out of the hands of the rich and start to build a society that works for the working class.