Communities within the Riverina have been taken for granted by the major parties for far too long. It’s time to send an independent to Canberra to get the services and infrastructure we need.

Full of untapped potential, as a food bowl, we are one of the only electorates in Australia that could be easily self sustainable. Yet we lack a regional vision. We don’t have enough housing. Businesses and health and education services are crying out for skilled labour. We’re in a cost of living crisis with a major housing shortage. Drive 5 minutes out of any town in our electorate and you’ll have no mobile coverage. You wait weeks to get into a GP and have to drive hours to access paediatric specialists and women’s health services. I’m done with complaining, it’s time to be part of the solution. Safe seats don't get resources, we need to make the Riverina a marginal seat.

Born on a farm between Wagga and Junee, I left in my early 20’s and worked around the world in London, across Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. I chose to move back with my husband and young family because I believe the Riverina is one of the best places in the world to live right now. My whole family live here, including my children, their grandparents and extended family. I want all of us who live here, including my family and friends to enjoy a well resourced vibrant community with inspiring leadership.

My strengths are inspiring vision, building relationships and facilitating change.

In my early 20's I was involved in a direct democracy experiment that received global attention. I believe in community led change. 

For a community leader to be effective, the community needs to be engaged. I can mobilise communities for grassroots change. In 2007 I launched a national initiative to improve regional women's financial health. Over 8 years I activated community groups, women's networks, banks, financial planners and rural financial councillors in over 80 rural and remote towns across Australia to run financial wellbeing workshops for over 10,000 women. 

But grassroots change isn't enough. We need big business to be incentivised to shift capital to help our change and causes. In 2008 along with two co-founders we launched Verve Super, Australia's first superannuation fund designed to financially empower women while shifting capital out of the fossil fuel industry and companies with poor governance, labour abuse, poor representation of women and into companies doing good in the world - such as renewable energy enterprises and social housing bonds. We've shifted around $300mill to date.

I have a deep understanding of the gaps and opportunities for regional business, having grown up on our family farm between Wagga and Junee and now running Farm Door, a regional food manufacturer just out of Wagga producing nearly a million meals a year.    

When I have an idea, I make it happen.

• Fix mobile and internet blackspots 

• Improve access to GPs & health services

• Address serious labour shortage, particularly across education, healthcare, hospitality and manufacturing

• Address cost of living and local housing solutions

• Focus on engaging youth voice and initiatives that improve youth mental health

• Food security and the protection of prime agricultural land

• Sustainable transition to Net Zero

• Dignified aged care solutions