Angela believes in the power of community to get things done.
Hi there! I’m Dr Angela Offord (veterinarian). I am a long term resident of the electorate of Lyons, working and raising my daughter and pet animals here.
I am running as your independent candidate in the next election. Why? because I am passionate about where we live and how we live and good governance.
We are very fortunate to have a system of representative democracy in Australia which means that we vote in people to represent us when making the decisions that affect our daily lives.
The job of an elected representative is to listen to their communities and work hard in a collaborative way with other elected representatives to ensure that the needs and opinions of the community are heard and prioritised. Members are accountable for their behaviour, actions and decisions.
In our current two party dominant adversarial system of politics we are not seeing this happen and our trust in party politicians is at an all time low.
Yet the paradigm is changing. 30% of people didn’t vote for a major party in the last election.
As an independent I am not aligned with any party. I will not be influenced or distracted by party politics, party ideology or vested interests. Your views and values would be my only priority.
I value integrity, openness, accountability and collaborative decision- making which are all qualities that are essential for earning and maintaining trust.
As an elected independent I can reach across party lines to get answers, I can call out bad decisions no matter who makes them. I would be working hard for you not a party. I would be making any decisions based on the communitiy’s thoughts, evidence, science, merit and my conscience not what the party thinks and is going to vote on an issue.
We have seen just what the inspirational incumbent independents, Helen Haines, Allegra Spender, Zali Steggall, Kylea Tink, Zoe Daniel, Dr Monique Ryan, David Pocock, Andrew Wilkie can achieve.
As your elected representative my job will be to listen to you and take action to deliver reforms that benefit healthy communities, promote animal health and welfare and preserve our natural environment.
I would like to see greater integrity in politics and would do my uppermost to model respectful and accountable behaviour.
Vote for change and vote for trust.
