Kate Hulett

why are there so few trees down here?

Why do we concrete up to the trunk of a tree?

And once you start noticing, you can't unnotice.

I think lots of people are kind of willfully ignorant because there are so many problems and so many layers of issue and you think people are busy and they've got children and massive mortgages and all the rest of what all of us have and it's sometimes easy just to go, I'm just going to take care of my little life, make sure everyone's happy and that's,

Absolutely fine.

There does need to be a group of people who are agitating.

I don't have children and therefore I'm fortunate to have more time than others.

And so then I kind of think, you know, I've got a responsibility and I've got a responsibility.

We all do to the next generation.

So that was the beginning of 2025, last year.

It was completely unplanned.

It was an impromptu, desperate decision.

So I got a very compelling email from a stranger.

Oh.

Effectively he said, we've got to try something new because if we don't do it now, the next election is in four years and then four years and four years and we've got all these converging crises and we've got a government that has a kind of super majority for many years and

We're sliding backwards as a state and we need to start thinking about agitating from the top.

and you know people had approached me previously about running for parliament and i said no because that sounds like hell on earth and i think most listeners would probably think i mean all the best people i know would say the last place i want to spend my time is in a building where people are shouting at you and trying to annihilate your character and so on and so forth however

I thought this person set an argument out that I thought I can't say no now that it's been put like that because I can't just go to bed at night and go, yeah, it's better for me to protect my happy life and my shop and my home and my character and everything than try and fix these problems, which for, you know, a decade I'd been advocating for.

And it would be hypocritical of me to say no

We need more normal people in parliament.