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[00:00:00] Speaker A: There we go. There's a bit of something different, Johnny Legend or John Legend with ordinary people. That's sort of a bit of a, a very good segue there because I'm not saying that my next guest is an ordinary person, but how would you describe yourself, Teresa?
[00:00:19] Speaker B: How would I describe myself?
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: Oh, lots of ways, I guess.
I'm a Christian, I'm a teacher for 30 years.
So I'm a very genuine person. I'm in the by election, by the way, for your viewers and the Secret harbor by election.
I'm a very honest, genuine person. I like, I think I'm for my political interest. I'm a very solutions driven person. I like to. What's the answer? What's the solution to, you know, solve the problem in society?
Whether it's when people are dealing with problems and issues and how we can fix things, how we can fix issues and problems in our society? Because we, we're always talking about the problems and issues, aren't we?
We are, but then we, we, we need to have people who can have good solutions and good answers. And I'm that sort of person. I like to think, you know, like on my core flute, I've put here, I'm your fix it leader, for example. You know what I mean? So I'm, I'm often thinking the way that I think is to okay, what's the problem? So how do we fix this problem? To improve people's lives, to benefit people's lives, to enhance people's lives.
You know, as your, your brilliant radio station, I come in here and I see, you know, your volunteers, I see this wonderful setup, ipl, how you want to inspire people to, to something great and something good. And I love that. I love that. It's wonderful.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: Yeah. I think I was saying we had the Owen Farmer from the. He does a lot with homelessness people. And like I said to him, whether it's like a local by election here or any other community group which is voluntary run and they want a voice, we can give them a voice. Now, I think you mentioned just off airsocket, but that there's been very little media coverage of the by election.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: It's as we just discussed, Nick, it's disgusting that it's, you know, all these media services and then they just focus on a few candidates. There's 16 candidates right now. All the candidates have something to contribute. So it's wonderful that you're interviewing all the candidates, you know, and now they should be full on actively contacting the candidates and the candidates and Getting all their perspective because the voters need to know. They need to know and to be able to meet the voters and interesting. In the ballot draw, you know, there was.
There's 16 candidates.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: And only six candidates showed up for the ballot draw.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Oh, seriously?
[00:03:04] Speaker B: And out of this six also six candidates. Only six candidates have their mobile phone listed for contact, which I'm one of those candidates. Now when you're talking about media coverage and all that, the voters need to be able to talk to the candidate on the phone or in person because how do you trust that person? Do you know what I mean? How do you.
[00:03:24] Speaker A: I think I agree 100% and one of the things that I've tried to do with all the candidates and there we do have some questions which I will just flick across. You can. So you can.
But what the thing I think is that.
And when I've had the people in here, Teresa, I like to know a little bit about them.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:03:49] Speaker A: Because they can all come in here and talk about, you know, cost of living, like homelessness, petrol price. They won't come here and talk about that. And we know that they are issues. But I want to know, you know, why you went into. Into politics.
What is your background to a degree as a, you know, so we get to know Teresa rather than the politician bit about Teresa, the person. So you're an ex teacher or.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm. I'm. Well I'll be a teacher forever until, you know.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Oh, you're still teaching?
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Well, I teach the public now. I have a Master of Education specializing in leadership and management.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: And from Notre Dame University and I. I have been a qualified and experienced teacher for 30 years and this is what people want.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: Oh well, I think people should know.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: Yes, of course. And I worked in the school system in Western Australia High school mostly for 20 years, nearly 20 years. I've taught in Rockingham High School and Warmba Community High School. I was a social studies teacher but I also taught physical education so I mostly taught, mostly taught phys ed. So I'm a sport teacher. So I'm a very activ. Of practical person and we're talking about solutions. I'm a very, very practical person. So.
And I have quite a strong connection with this area for, for the teaching work I've done. But also my almost most of my entire family grew up, was born and grew up in the Canning Federal electorate which this secret harbor is one of the state electorates in there. So you know, mostly money. Jong Jared Al Armadale. I went to Armadale High School and I did some. Offered professional staff, professional development in morals and values education at Secret Harbor Primary School. That was many years ago now, so.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's interesting, it's interesting.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Also used to go fishing at the port, Port Kennedy fishing. And it was a wonderful place to catch Taylor. Do you remember that? Years ago.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: But now it's all really fished out, isn't it? Some of. I like fishing for relaxation and you know, all along Golden Bay there and Medora Bay and Singleton all. That's all catch really good herring and, and, but that Taylor spot at Port Kennedy, my family used to go there quite a bit years ago, but I had gone there a few years ago but it's. I think it's all fished out now. There's absolutely nothing there. So I was pretty disappointed about that. But you know, what, what do we do? It's.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: But that's good because you've got an attachment to the area and you know, you've had a lot of. Being a teacher, you would have, I would assume, a lot of connectivity between UT students, what they're going through, what their parents are going through.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: It's a school, sort of a community based.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Yes, yes. In fact I, I contacted all the, all the primary schools in the Secret harbor electorate just a few days ago to try to organize a candidates forum for the candidates. But I've had. Participate in that before but unfortunately they don't. They have all these silly rules the government do about can't use the building, you know, before elections. And, and I, and I hate that. I don't like the bureaucracy that the politicians force on the population. I think it would just trash most of the, most of the, you know, regulations and rules and, and these silly fees and costs and that that they impose on the community, which I'm very much against.
So, you know, these are public buildings and resources and they should be available to the public for whatever purpose. And. But it's always, you got to pay and you've got to have all this insurance and you've got to, you know, it's all this. I, I just, I can't stand it. I think the public needs to really fight for their rights and freedoms and say, well, we had enough of that sort of corruption really, and we. Why, why did they get power and they force all these things on the. The community? It's not right.
[00:07:49] Speaker A: It's funny and I am digressing way off the.
Way off the subject to a degree. And something I can say when you talk about bureaucracy and being Forced upon things. And, you know, like, it's really strange that I found a lot of people whose principle was and whether it's right or wrong. That's interesting. But a lot of people's principle was they didn't want to be immunized against Covid. That was the thing. Yes, I don't want.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: And the government's. We don't have to. Okay, that's good. But if you don't, you won't have a job.
[00:08:29] Speaker B: Yeah. You can't work.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: So I thought, well, it's not really bureaucracy in that way, but they will argue so well, you don't have to have it. Okay. Yeah, but I've got a wife and two kids.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Yes, I know. Now those pharmaceutical drugs are actually very dangerous, like COVID Injection and psychiatric drugs are very dangerous too. And you know, euthanasia, so it's the third leading killer in the world is pharmaceutical drugs. So I'm totally against that. I actually promote a bill of rights in my political website, which is voter rights party dot com. And I've built that party up the last 10 years.
And one of the rights. I've got 15 rights provisions in the Bill of Rights, you know, for Western Australia, but also for across the nation. And one of them is consent rights.
So this can. It's important in. We have, in the law, the whole population has in the law, consent. Right. So they can't force a pharmaceutical drug on you, an injection or anything. Like it's absolutely disgusting that they say was it actually can kill people. So, you know, they can't force a pharmaceutical drug under a bill of Rights. Consent rights. But also they did some really horrific other things too, like stop you working, as you said, stop you traveling, stop you visiting your elderly relative, your grandmother, grandmother, grandfather, your elderly relative at a hospital without having the jab. And that is just appalling. That is. Is evil and disgusting. And I'll tell you, 90 Nick, 90 of the Australian population was totally against it. At least 90%, you know, so they have all this force. They force, force, force this. And. And the public must have rights. It must have a bill of rights to protect itself. Property rights, parental rights, consent rights. These are the sort of rights provisions I put in my Bill of Rights. The rights to a job, the rights to a home, the rights to, you know, small business rights.
So all these rights I thought about for the public, you know, like the rights to a home, which. The homeless problem. We've got big problems with that. As you know. There's so many problems that we have But I tell you what, can I just.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: You can do whatever you like.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: Can I? Oh, thank you. That's really sweet. Oh, quickly, can I show you the present that I gave you? Got you. I, I brought in a present with
[00:10:43] Speaker A: the video, if we have it. I think we have a camera here.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Okay. I just brought a little gift in for the radio station and it's. What does it say? It says everyone brings joy to this office. Some when they enter, some when they leave. So it's quite easy. I love these little signs that can be quite inspiring and cute, you know, and it's like, oh, I just thought, yeah, maybe they, that, you know, they do some good work. So that's for you and your people.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Thank you very much.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah, so.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: So you can. We've got a couple of questions if you want to answer them.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: Yes,
[00:11:20] Speaker A: I think the first one is about. Oh, I don't even know.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: I was just wondering if I can, if we get. Can I just quickly go through quickly and then we'll get to the questions. So this is my core flute. It's just an A4 copy but I'm getting. There's waiting for the printing coming and all my flyers and I have a flyer too which is just black and white because black and white is to me stands out, you know. So I just want to really quickly just say what, being a practical person, what I'll do for the voters of Secret Harbor now, there's 31,689 reasons why the voters should vote for me.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: And do you know what that number is?
[00:12:04] Speaker A: No.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: That's the number of voters in the Secret Harbor.
[00:12:08] Speaker A: Right.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Electric. Okay. So, you know, if everyone knew what I was fighting for their rights and freedoms, I'd get 100 of the first preference vote. Now what I've said on my, my core flute and my flyer, some of the things I've said, I've got my website, I've got bill of rights, community projects, living cost law, cost of living law and small business and jobs. That's just some of the things I fight for. But this is what I've said. I've said here. Oh that I'm Australian born, teacher and you know, master's education, etc. But what I guarantee you 100 and this is what I've published on my flyer and my core flute. What I guarantee you 100 is Monday to Friday. Meet you at the front of my office from 8:30am with a chair and a cup of tea to talk with you, listen to you, do activities and projects with you, advocate for your rights and freedoms in person, in writing, in every way we can.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: So that's great, isn't it?
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Thank you. So, so what, what I'm getting at is not inside the office.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: I will literally at 8:30 drag my chair out the front on the pavement with the cup of tea and invite the voters to be there to bring their chair, bring their cup of tea. And then I'll have Monday to Friday and I'll have five big schedules on my window. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And they can book me up. Okay, so they can book, you know, Teresa, we want you to come with us to the, do the busy bee for two hours here. You know, maybe have a homeless project that we have with a group.
If workers want their CV updated, I'll sit with them and you know, fix up their cv. If they want, they want to get a job, I'll sit with them. Right. I'll go with them to the small business people and help them get a job. Literally, I'll go with them to go to the business. And also if they want to, you know, like, or get into an educational course in a university or you know, some course or something and they want a letter, I'll sit with them and type up a letter and sign it for them. So, you know, they can, I'll basically be the slave of the electorate. They can drag me out here and there, but we can together come up
[00:14:21] Speaker A: with like that's what people want. I think people want people to, you know, not to say, but I think
[00:14:28] Speaker B: they want people to do yes, yes, and action. You know, there's so many things that can be done. There's so many things. Look, I love the idea of having busy bees. You know what we could say two hours here, two hours there. Go to, in a group, go to some elderly people's homes and you know, help them with the gardening, do some gardening, a bit of cleaning in the house, some maintenance work, whatever. People or people with disabilities who need a bit of a hand up or, you know, some encouragement and some support and that community connection. So it could be a volunteer group for that. So we go out to, you know, that can book it up. Okay. And they meet at the front of the office. So they're meeting at the front of the office exactly at that time. And then people can come along and they can always say, oh, look at the schedule and say, oh yeah, I want to do that on Thursday, I want to join in on Friday, I want to do this Wednesday. Or want to, you know, try to find a time where they can book to help them with, with the, with, with whatever it is, the practical, practical help. Now I'll literally sleep in that office sometimes too during the week. Do you know what I mean?
[00:15:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: And also what I do, I don't have a house in the electorate. I'll be honest with you. I do have a private silent electoral, because safety purposes, but I will rent a room in somebody's home in the electorate. Okay. And the other thing on the way here, I was thinking, you know, what else can I do? Because with the homeless people I have in Melbourne and Sydney and I did, and Adelaide and Perth, I did over five years for a project with the homeless. Food, blankets, clothing, toiletries, all this. But you know, there should be a park in every electorate where people can go and set up tents to stay because the council's unfortunately been terrorizing the homeless people with the police sometimes, and that's very bad. But even sometimes I will set up my tent with them in the electorate and be with them sometimes in my tent because, you know, you have to have that connection. But the other thing is we can connect with them and we can like do things like when there's trust build up, okay. And also tell the councils, no, you're not going to terrorize the homeless people. That's, that's disgusting and violent.
But we could build up that rapport and people in the electorate, once they get to know them and they build up that rapport, we can help them try and get a job. Even if they're living in a tent, they can still try. We can help them get a job, we can help them get accommodation. Like people may be prepared to rent a room, but once they build up that rapport and trust and there has to be conditions because it's very hard to trust people when you don't know them. Right. But it could be that, it could be that the person. It take may take weeks to build up that trust. It may take weeks, but then there would be, you know, conditions like, you know, they have to be working part time or looking for a job or looking at, trying to get into a course. But we can write letters for them and advocate for their rights to try to help them get into those jobs. You know, I met, I'll tell you one thing, I met a homeless man in, I think it was Sydney and it's just one example and he told me that he was doing a master's in a university while he was homeless.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: So, so, so where there's a will, there's a Way the possibilities are endless when the community comes up with the answers and works together. Do you know what I mean?
[00:17:57] Speaker A: So if we can. There's just a couple of questions here. I think maybe that this one is very much a topic of People's Secret harbor and Rockingham.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: That's the defense project with.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: What are your thoughts on Orcas? Do you have any.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: Well, what are the actual plans for the area with this?
[00:18:18] Speaker A: Well, I, I just know that we're in this a thing called Orcas which involves I think, I think nuclear submarines.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah, nuclear submarines.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Well, it's my view is it's up to the, it's up to the electorate what they want. Do they want this? Do they want.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: What would you have a viewpoint on it?
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Well, I think we have an alliance with the United States and the United. And Europe and that's a very important historical alliance for defense purposes.
And so we need a strong military. I do think that. And then it depends on what the electorate wants, what does the voters want? So I'm not going to just force my views.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: Oh no, no, no.
[00:18:59] Speaker B: Do you know what I mean?
[00:19:00] Speaker A: Maybe the electorate wants to know what are your views?
[00:19:03] Speaker B: Well, they would have to tell me
[00:19:05] Speaker A: their views before you can.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: Yes, the voters will have to tell me their views and what they want before I could say anything on that one.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: And what's the other one?
Will the candidates take homelessness seriously and provide housing together with a mentor? We've already sort of answered that, that, that one.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: Anyway, I think there has to be. We have. I would like to see Australia build a million homes across Australia in country towns. And I even costed that. I even costed it through the banking system at $250 billion, which would be $250,000 homes and. But it can be funded through the banking system. Now I've got some big ideas on economics and you know, I taught economics in social studies, politics, economics, history, geography and also sport and phys ed.
So we need to build like a million homes. Seriously across Australia we need more homes and there's also in the Bill of Rights, property rights. So I think that property owners should be able to subdivide outside of the council so that, you know, minimum 500 square meters. So people that have got two acres or an acre and they can subdivide and sell their land. So we have a supply problem of housing. And so I've got some very firm ideas about how to fix that too. You know that subdivisions must be able to be proceeded with like two professionals and that's it. And the councils should not be able to interfere with property rights like that and only have like a maybe one rule and that's two story. But then the, the property owners can sell their land. They can sell it and they make it much easier to buy land and cheaper and then build homes which can be secured through a better banking system. So I want to see a new tax law, new banking law, new a cost of living law, cost of living law as well.
So we need physically to build more homes and then, you know, materials and all that. And all the business people need to be supported, the small business people and all the manufact manufacturers and the building materials, all these business people, they really need to be supported because they create.
Well, the small business sector creates 70% of jobs. So I'm full on for small business. Absolutely full on. And trashing all this bureaucracy and getting rid of these costs, state government costs and state government costs and charges, which is, I don't know if you've got a question about cost of living.
How much time have we got?
[00:21:41] Speaker A: Just thinking, yeah, we about to have to sort of wind up in a. So because what we do here is Teresa, we give everybody half an hour.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: So we're just about out.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: So perhaps cost of living. Can I just finish on that one?
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Just finish on cost of living.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: Now what I promote is a cost of living law. It's in my political website, so my flyers. Now the cost of living law is really, really important. It could be a state cost of living law, can be a commonwealth cost of living law, has to be all the essential services like gas, water, electricity. And we need the base rate reduced. Okay. An economic cap, what's called an economics is a price ceiling. So an economic cap on the charges for the base rate charges and the supply charges also it must be quarterly billing. So under the model I create, so it should, it's $0.29 a kilowatt for electricity, for example. Now in, in other nations they, they have like 9 cents a kilowatt, 10 cents a kilowatt. It's outrageous these politicians letting the, the electricity and the, and the essential service companies do what they want. And that's very bad. Okay, that's very bad. So you put an economic cap on the base rate charge at 10 cents a kilowatt and then must be quarterly billing and then the supply charge should be 20, $20 a quarter.
So that'll drop a $300 electricity bill every two months. They shouldn't be allowed to do every two months. It'll drop it to a hundred dollars a quarter with electricity. So that's reducing it by two thirds of the cost. We must have a cost of living law, right? There's so many things that can be done economically to fix the cost of living. Water in Western Australia, the cost is disgusting. Now, in South Australia, you pay $70 a quarter for water. Now West Australia, they've got this horrible sewage charge, okay? This is the politician's fault. Labor, Liberal, whatever, they're absolutely to blame. That's a disgusting fee.
It's the sewage charge at $240 every two months. They're billing every two months.
And there must be like, you know, massively slashed and economically capped to 50 or even $20. Say $20 a quarter for the sewage charge. That's it. They are oppressing the people of Western Australia with this disgusting water cost. And then the supply charge again, it should be $20 a quarter. Okay? That and we must get these costs down. Gas, water, electricity. Now also registrations. All state government fees and charges will be in this cost of living law. They're all fight like hell to get register car registrations. You're paying $850 a year. It must be capped at $250 a year. Your car should be costing only $250 a year, maximum to register. That's it. And truck, buses, cars, caravans, trailers, just slash it, slash it, put it a cap. So no, a law that says the state politicians, they're criminals. I'm sorry, you cannot charge the people these essential services, licensing, driver's licensing, also all sorts of costs, small business costs, they must be capped and slashed. And we can go through the full list of all these state government charges and fees. The fine system fines must be abolished. The fines and toll system is so abusive and disgusting. That must be abolished. Okay, and then, you know, maybe give the police powers just to go after real dangerous criminals as well. But also give them one to ten days community service for just minor things. Not this money, money, money, money thing. Do you know what I mean? So sorry, I won't. Maybe I've gone over time.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll just. We'll just say people want to contact you, Teresa. How do they do it? Have you got a web page and a phone number?
[00:25:51] Speaker B: Yes, I've got a website, voter rights party.com and mobile. Call me on my mobile. 0413-6386.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: Say that number again.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Oh, sorry, sorry. 0413-63-8671. And people, voters can call me. I'll come and see you in person, your little group or yourself, whatever, your family.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: Thank you very much. Your time.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: Thanks. Good on you.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: Cheers.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: Champion. Thanks so much.
