Australian Labor Party member Kim Travers is running for the seat of Nicholls in the 2025 federal election.
She lives 12.5km from the border of Nicholls and was asked to run by her party as she is experienced in public service and is, in her words, a “firm trade union woman”.
“I believe in fairness and equity, and I’ve worked a lot with women over the last 20 years in policy committees within the ALP and also within the union on … working conditions that affect women and help their working lives,” she said.
Mrs Travers identified cost of living as a primary concern for Nicholls residents.
She asserted that Labor was implementing specific measures to address this, and wished to focus on improving the Goulburn Valley's bridge network and tackling the electorate’s housing challenges.
Speaking about what her main objectives would be if she was elected, she said her job would be to negotiate with ministers on projects that had been in the works for a while.
Mrs Travers said she aimed to leverage her “party of women” to launch initiatives addressing cost-of-living pressures, enhance aged care services and ensure TAFE colleges offered relevant courses such as allied health, directly benefiting working-age adults and their families.
“(Labor) has delivered before here, but think how much more they can deliver if they’ve got team members here in Nicholls,” she said.
“I think that would be a revolution here.”
On how she would represent the electorate in Canberra, she said her voice and her negotiating skills would be key to pushing the Nicholls agenda forward.
She said she would “tap into” the five councils in Nicholls and find where the gaps were in some of the region’s smallest towns.
“I know it’s difficult to get stuff delivered (rurally) ... If people really want change, they’re going to have to start thinking about how you get that change, and maybe a woman like myself who is assertive in a rural seat is actually a good thing to do.”
To stay up to date on election day, check in on The News website as McPherson Media Group will be running a live blog on May 3 featuring content from polling booths across Nicholls as well as live poll updates.
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