An Anzac Day message from Stuart Grimley, Western Victoria upper house MP

HI, I’m Stuart Grimley, your local Member of Parliament and state leader of Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party.

This Anzac Day will be like no other. There’ll be no large gatherings at any of our traditional Dawn Service locations, but I want to encourage you to still pay your respects.

At 5.45am this Saturday, 25 April, I want you to ‘light up the dawn’ by going to the end of your driveway, tune into local radio who will be broadcasting a service from the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, or the Ballarat RSL service, and pay your respect for those who died for us.

I’ll be doing this at my home and I think our Diggers would love to know that we’re all doing this too. Because we’re in this together, and we’ll get through it together.

Stay home and stay safe and if you or your family needs assistance at this time, please contact my office through my website at stuartgrimley.com or any of our social media platforms.

And to all the diggers…thank you for your service. Lest we forget.

Remember, at this time – or at any time – you can contact my office on social media or by phone on 5218 5001, email at [email protected],or come and see me in person when my office has opened back up, post-COVID-19.

Issues that matter

I have been a Member of Victorian Parliament since 2018 when I was first elected and ever since I have been “demanding justice” from our political system.

I am enjoying the experience and have been fighting for six issues in particular:

Establishing a Public Child Sex Offender Register
Bail, parole and sentencing reform
Domestic violence prevention
Protecting victims over perpetrators
Mental health support
Animal justice

I am a happily married father of two children aged 13 and 15 and currently reside in Armstrong Creek. Born in South Australia, lived there for 12 years before moving to Western Australia for about two decades and finally settling in Victoria where I have been for the past seven years.

I have been a teacher and principal in Western Australia – three years of which I lived and taught in remote Aboriginal communities. I served as a police officer in Western Australia for six years before transferring to the Victoria Police where I served for a decade. I have worked in general policing, drug investigations, sexual offences and child abuse unit and more recently in the Crime Investigation Unit at Moorabool.

Criminals continue to break the law whilst on bail and insufficient sentences continue to be handed down by out-of-touch magistrates – especially for those crimes against the person, in particular against women and children.

We are all tired of politicians that talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. We have had enough of the sniping and bickering between the major parties.

Let’s put policy before politics and get back to serving the people in our community that deserve the respect from our government. It’s about time that we have real people in parliament that have real life experiences and come from real jobs and are living in the real world.

To me, it was just common sense.

Find Stuart on social media:

On face book – FB.com/StuartGrimleyMP

On Instagram – Instagram.com/StuartGrimleyMP

On twitter – twitter.com/StuartGrimleyMP

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