My husband, a chartered accountant for many years, retrained as a teacher when our children were young and I financially supported him. My turn came, after 20 years as a landscape architect, when he supported me to retrain to become a teacher in special education.
At the age of 46, I graduated with a diploma of education, added a master’s degree over the next few years and have been gainfully employed as a teacher over that time, most recently landing a position last year, which I love, at the age of 53.
I received a letter three weeks ago acknowledging my application but my husband received nothing. His postal vote has arrived but mine hasn’t. When I rang the Australian Embassy to see if I could come in and vote there I was told “Don’t worry. If you are overseas you are not required to vote”.As someone who has spent many hours over the past few months volunteering for my local teal candidate I am very upset I am being denied my right to vote.
Add in an independent body scrutinising for truth in electoral advertising and limitations on personal and business donations, whatever form they take. We need complete transparency around the interaction between lobbyists and politicians and a reform of the freedom of information process.
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