Hi, I'm Angus!
I'm a tour guide, a carer, and someone who believes in leaving every place better than you found it – and I'm running as your Greens candidate for Hobart City Council.
I've been working in tourism for a decade, across London, Oxford, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, and now here in Tasmania, where I've chosen to put down roots. As a tour guide I spend my days taking people through Hobart's history, up the mountain, and along the river. I love that I'm five minutes from a river with platypus, several hundred kilometres of hiking trails, and a winery fifteen minutes away in three different directions. There's nowhere quite like it.
My values have been shaped by experience as much as belief. I lost my father to Alzheimer's when I was young, and returned from the UK in 2020 to be my mother's full-time carer through cancer before she passed. I've also navigated a cancer diagnosis of my own, as well as a recent ADHD diagnosis. What those experiences taught me is how exhausting it is to advocate for yourself – or someone you love – within a health system that wasn't designed to make it easy. You shouldn't have to be loud and insistent to get good health outcomes in this country – that should be available to everyone.
I'm passionate about public transport because I took it for granted living in Europe, and then came back to Australia and found myself having to get into a car every single day just to get to a hospital. Too many people are forced to live certain ways because no other option exists. I want to change that.
I always put my hand up – which is why I'm on the Greens State Council and Global Issues Group and give blood every four weeks, trying to give back to a system that kept my mother alive for an extra three years.
This election I want to make Hobart a city our young people actually want to stay in – with real opportunities for families, better public transport, and investment in the infrastructure and spaces that make daily life genuinely liveable.
Hope to see you on the campaign trail,
Angus
