Labor’s Daniel Mulino holds the seat with a comfortable margin, though voters in the inner corner around Footscray have increasingly backed the Greens in recent elections.
Former state Greens MP Huong Truong has been preselected to contest the Labor-held federal seat of Fraser in Melbourne’s west.
Labor’s Daniel Mulino holds the seat with a comfortable 16.5 per cent margin on a two-party preferred basis, though voters in the inner corner of the electorate around Footscray have increasingly backed the Greens, based on recent elections.An artist and a former organiser with the National Union of Workers, Truong grew up in the west and is the child of Vietnamese refugees. In the 2021 census, 18.
“I’m no stranger to fighting for the west, for people abandoned by the Labor and Liberal parties. I’m running to help us westies believe in our democracy again,” Truong said in a statement. “Our people are crying out for better health infrastructure, for action to stop unlimited rent increases, and an end to price gouging at the supermarket checkout – but Labor is refusing to act.”. Thirty-eight per cent of households rented in Fraser – which also takes in Sunshine and St Albans – at the 2021 census, almost 10 percentage points higher than the state average., which has been criticised by economists and the housing industry during a period of runaway housing costs.
Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt said Truong was “a hugely respected community organiser and advocate who knows Melbourne’s western suburbs like the back of her hand, and she has the guts to fight to make positive change happen”.is a Victorian state political reporter for The Age. Previously, she was a city reporter and has covered breaking news.
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