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WENTWORTH LOWER HOUSE CANDIDATES
DAVE SHARMA, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA
Dave Sharma is a well regarded foreign policy expert and former ambassador to Israel. He is of Indian heritage and born in Vancouver, Canada, in 1975, his family living in Sydney since 1979.
An outstanding school student, he completed a Master of Arts at Cambridge University before completing a first class honours law degree. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and completed a Masters Degree in International Relations.
He has since worked on the staff of former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, was the head of the International Division of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet while Julia Gillard was Prime Minister, and was appointed Ambassador to Israel by Labor Foreign Minister Bob Carr in 2013.
In the 2019 election he recaptured the seat of Wentworth from independent Kerryn Phelps. He has worked tirelessly for the Wentworth electorate and was recently one of the Liberal members who crossed the floor to vote against the government on amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act related to the government's Religious Discrimination Bill, a crucial vote that eventually saw the legislation withdrawn.
Dave has a proven ability to bring people together, solve problems and get things done. He understands the importance of a stronger economy and has wide international experience to help secure Australia’s defence and interests in the less certain times in which we now live. He lives in Paddington with his wife Rachel and their three young daughters.
www.liberal.org.au/member/dave-sharma
TIM MURRAY, AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY
Tim Murray, Labor’s candidate for Wentworth, is an economist, entrepreneur and a father of three young children.
After winning an Australia-China Council scholarship, working for Austrade and developing businesses in China for 20 years, Tim and his wife Pauline Vaughan moved their family back to Sydney in 2013.
They chose Tamarama, near where Tim was born in Waverley, to raise their kids. Tim continues to work as an analyst specialising in Australian mining and commodities, and Pauline works as an early childhood teacher in Paddington.
Tim is an active member of his community, serving as President of the Tamarama Surf Lifesaving Club, where he introduced a new program for indigenous nippers and a safe swim outreach to migrants who haven’t had the opportunity to learn to swim.
DAVE SHARMA
TIM MURRAY
DANIEL LEWKOVITZ
change, it is the only party committed to balanced locally-driven development, affordable housing, investment in public education and health, and an open, secure, innovative and forward-looking Australia.
www.alp.org.au/our-people/our-people/ tim-murray
DANIEL LEWKOVITZ, LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
Born in Sydney to a post-war migrant family Daniel was educated at Sydney Boys High School and the University of Wollongong. His LinkedIn profile is a rare beacon of commercial reality and common-sense in a sea of virtue signalling and tribal politics.
Daniel is a fierce critic of government interference in business and an environment which discourages small business at every level. He is a believer in free speech and a fair go as well as rewarding and supporting those who take risks and work hard to build the nation.
“If you’ve never worked in a business, owned a business or run a business you’ve no credibility telling other people how to run theirs. Our country needs actual big ideas beyond windmills and very fast trains which won’t arrive in my lifetime”.
Sadly, politics in this nation lacks talent. I am not a career public official or long-term party staffer waiting for 'his turn'. Nor am I funded by billionaires looking to grow their investments. I am a hardworking business owner with a family who, like you, wants to see Australia the way it should be. For everyone, not just the elites and insiders. I want to discuss things other parties have forgotten or don't think matter. Nuclear energy, lower taxes and most of all, the government out of your life. If you want less government and more freedom like I do, we need to talk.
www.votelewko.org
DOMINIC WY KANAK
ALLEGRA SPENDER
NATALIE DUMER
DOMINIC WY KANAK, GREENS
Dominic Wy Kanak has served on Waverley Council representing Bondi Ward since 1999. He has been Honorary Native Title Consultant for Rockdale and District Landscape Heritage Committee (RDLHC), and past Executive Committee Convenor of the Indigenous Working Group of the UN Association of Australia (NSW Branch).
Currently he is a Member of the Management Committee for the NSW Reconciliation Council and a former Director on the Board of Tranby Aboriginal College, as well as Vice President of the NSW Local Government Aboriginal Network. He was the Greens candidate at the 2018 Wentworth by-election and at the 2019 Federal election.
As a First Australian, Dominic will play an influential role if elected as a federal MP in advancing the ‘Statement from the Heart’, implementing the Royal Commission into Black deaths in Custody recommendations. Dominic will advocate for Australia to commit to a national Treaty or Treaties to reframe how we care for Community; change the course of this country’s history and set us on a new path. He says "We cannot change the past, but we can build a better future for us all, a future that starts with bringing people peacefully together."
www.greens.org.au/nsw/person/ dominic-wy-kanak
ALLEGRA SPENDER, INDEPENDENT
Allegra Spender’s background brings to the mix a range of business and politics. Her agenda is big on climate change. She aspires to a future when many more people will drive electric cars and one that has a sustainable and innovative economy.
Her platform is very similar to that of the Labor Party including achieving at least a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030, stronger support for electric vehicles, action to improve resilience to floods, fire and drought, the introduction of a Federal ICAC and respectful treatment of women and LGBTIQ + people.
She is the daughter Australian fashion icon Carla Zampatti, and her father John and grandfather Percy both served as Liberal MPs in the House of Representatives. Spender was also the chair of the Sydney Renewable Power Company that installed 520 kilowatts (700 hp) of solar panels on the roof of the International Convention Centre Sydney. She is married, lives in Sydney and has two children. She gives no advice on direction of preferences and declines to say whether she will support Labor, or the Liberals should she be elected.
www.allegraspender.com.au
NATALIE DUMER, UNITED AUSTRALIA PARTY
Having migrated from the former USSR in the 70s, Natalie’s family relocated to the electorate of Wentworth where she has resided ever since. Her daughter was born in the electorate and goes to school there. She is extremely connected with her electorate, having worked as a dentist in Paddington for many years.
Over the last two years Natalie has watched hard-working people struggle financially, mentally, and spiritually through these lockdowns. This has affected the unity of her community, increased mental illness and suicides, domestic violence and exacerbated the slow erosion of their freedoms.
Natalie sees pandemic solutions being ignored by the major parties, resulting in countless unnecessary deaths.
The United Australia Party plans to cap home loan interest rates at 3% for the next five years, pay down national debt with a 15% levy on coal and iron exports to China, oppose all “vaccine passports”, abolish the national cabinet, establish research into nuclear energy solutions, strengthen Australia’s defence, protect free speech from foreign techs giants and create jobs by processing Australian minerals in Australia.
