KEY PRIORITIES

FOR ME ARE

Supporting the Veteran Community

Vocational & Tertiary Education for all

Rural & Regional Healthcare

Make & Buy Australian Made

Supporting the Veteran Community

Glenn was the CEO of RSL NSW, and was instrumental in the introduction of financial and governance reform. He served on operations in Timor and Afghanistan.

“I have a military background and I’m fully aware of the importance of increasing meaningful Defence funding in addition to improvements in social services spending. Successive governments have allowed our military capabilities to atrophy despite spending money on wasteful projects. I believe it is possible to balance Defence spending with social spending for the benefit of all Australians.”

Access to Vocational and Tertiary Education for all

“I am fortunate to have had excellent educational opportunities and I use these skills to give back to my community. Every Australian child deserves these opportunities and society can only benefit from a
healthy and educated population base.

Vocational and tertiary education must deliver an innovative workforce to help drive productivity and create value for money (in terms of our investment in education). There are policy opportunities here involving greater public sector-private sector collaboration.

Of course, the funding bucket is not bottomless, but collaboration leads to innovation and better identification of priorities.”

Rural and Regional Healthcare

“I’m not a medical doctor – but I am passionate about improving programmes to support rural and regional healthcare and general practice more broadly. General Practice is the most cost-effective component of the health system but it’s also the soft target for Government cuts.

The 2024-25 Federal Budget fails to bolster the GP workforce or improve primary mental health support. Government GP incentives often miss the mark and risk further diminishing the GP workforce, especially in rural areas - while also failing to attract medical
students to general practice.

Only 1 in 10 medical graduates are choosing General Practice - even less in rural areas. Australia is facing a looming GP shortage, rural towns are left without doctors, public hospitals are overloaded. Without funding and proper incentives, general practice struggles and everything fails.

The concerns of GPs and peak industry bodies have been ignored. If elected I will consult with the Rural Doctors Network, Rural Doctor Association of Australia, and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and be a champion for general practice and rural medicine in the Senate.”