OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

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Donna Stolzenberg

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Kath Larkin

Tara Burnett

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Green Light Candidates

Donna Stolzenberg (LCP)

Donna qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Donna Stolzenberg, a proud Indigenous woman of Ngatjumay and Mirning heritage, is a humanitarian and social entrepreneur dedicated to tackling homelessness and social disadvantage. As founder and CEO of the National Homeless Collective (NHC), she has transformed a simple act of kindness into a nationwide movement.

In 2014, Donna began by distributing 50 sleeping bags to people experiencing homelessness, laying the foundation for the NHC. Under her leadership, the organisation has launched several initiatives, including:

• The Period Project – Provides sanitary products and menstrual hygiene education.
• The School Project – Supplies essential school items to disadvantaged children.
• Plate Up Project – Equips individuals with culinary skills for employment.
• Sleeping Bags for Homelessness – Continues distributing sleeping bags to those in need.
• Secret Women’s Business – Supports women escaping domestic violence.
• Kala Space – Employs women impacted by abuse or homelessness.

Donna’s passion stems from personal experience—at 22, she faced homelessness while raising two young children. This fuels her commitment to practical, inclusive solutions.

Named 2021 Victoria Australian of the Year, she has also led initiatives for free public access to sanitary products and pioneered flexible employment policies at Kala Space to support those in crisis.

A mother of five and grandmother, Donna balances family life with her mission to create lasting social change through empathy, innovation, and advocacy.

LCP endorses the 3Rs and supports the Climate Rescue Accord

Kath Larkin (Victorian Socialists)

I’m a trade unionist, a socialist, and a renter in Northcote. I grew up here, went to school and got my first job in the area.

For almost a decade, I worked on the railways, becoming the first female RTBU delegate at Flinders Street station. I organised rank-and-file actions in my workplace to improve wages and conditions, and in 2015 I helped lead the first strike on the Victorian railways in 17 years.

In recent years Australia has seen the biggest fall in working-class living standards in a generation. The cost of living is rising fast – driven overwhelmingly by profiteering by landlords, banks and big corporations.

Both in Australia and internationally we’re witnessing a growth in the far right – epitomised by Donald Trump in America but increasingly also by Peter Dutton’s openly bigoted Liberal Party here. Years of Labor’s neoliberalism, demonising of refugees and attacks on environmental activists have helped pave the way for this.

Socialists offer a genuine alternative to the self-serving politicians who mouth pleasant words while either directly ripping us off (look how many of them are landlords) or serving their big business mates in parliament.

From destroying the planet, to using racism to distract and divide us, and forcing the working class to pay for the cost-of-living crisis, capitalism fails to provide for the vast majority.

I will fight for housing for all, for genuine universal health care that’s free and accessible no matter where you’re from, to stop price gouging supermarkets with caps on essential goods and to reverse privatisation – which has seen the cost of everything from childcare to energy prices spiral.

Tara Burnett (Greens)

As a public school teacher, unionist and renter, I will genuinely represent the Cooper community.

I’m also proud and excited to be running in Cooper with the chance of being the first trans MP in any Parliament in Australia.

I will fight so that everyone in our community has access to what they need.

I’m proud to call Cooper home. Our lively arts scene, strong queer community and our diversity have made this an incredible place to live. Unfortunately, much of that is under threat.

When so many people are paying massive sections of their income to line someone else’s pocket while living in sub-standard conditions, the system is very broken, and we have been out here with real, viable legislative solutions to that problem. And the fact is, we can pay for things our community needs – infrastructure, schools, healthcare – if we actually tax the billionaires who can afford to pay for it.

Labor can’t keep relying on millions in donations from big oil and gas corporations and expect voters to believe that they are going to take real action on the climate crisis.

We’re hearing every week on the doors and phones that voters are sick of the major parties and are rolling up their sleeves to send Australia’s  first trans MP to Canberra.

It’s clear Labor doesn’t have the will to tackle the massive problems we face in climate and cost of living, and the only way to get meaningful and positive change is to put more Greens in the parliament.

Our community knows that we deserve more, and we’re ready to demand it. Our movement in Cooper is growing, and we’re only getting started.