Kate Hulett

We need nurses and teachers and sparkies to be in representing us because that is us.

And then for me not to do it when someone seriously asked me.

So we ran for the state, so in Western Australia for Fremantle, and then it came very close, hundreds of votes close, shocking for the government close.

And then...

I kind of was like, thank God, because crazy, that was crazy.

Well, there's certainly universal stuff, right?

It would be hard to argue that housing is not a right for everyone, you know, a human right.

Okay, what about medical stuff?

What we hear, I guess, is a man with a trumpet who then has paid for all the trumpet players, as in TikTok and Meta and blah-de-da-da-da, to amplify those messages.

But actually there are far, far more of us individuals, community members, who do believe that you should be able to go to the hospital if you're in an emergency and get good care.

And if you're desperate, you know, you should be able to have a house, some emergency housing.

I think we just have to remind people that we are people and talk about those things in ways they understand.

These things will unite us all.

We've just got to set it out in a clear way.

And I guess what's happening now, we've got governments who are kind of middling in the centre, veering right, and then we've got very right-wing people who are amplifying their voices very successfully on behalf of billionaires and oligarchs.

And then there's the majority who aren't really being spoken to.

And I think what we did in the campaign was speak to ordinary people and they were like, oh, yeah, that's true.

You know, when they're like, we have to vote for Labor because they have promised a crossing outside of the school.

And I say that is the bare minimum of what a government should offer.

That crossing should have been there when the school was built.