ALT If he can successfully petition Green Party members to back him as a candidate and to a high list placing, he’ll be more free to speak his mind. Despite the sometimes grim campaign and demoralising loss that ended his career in local politics, the prospect has him excited. He aligns his personal philosophy with Nietzsche, who said that out of chaos comes order. “I believe I was made for chaos. I work really well in chaos,” he says. “And my wife has committed to this and perhaps that shows that she too can manage the chaos as well. I want my girls to see their parents standing up for them and for a climate that’s going to be better. For a society that’s going to do better for them. My girls are brown. And the data is clear that it’s brown women that make the least. I want them to know that we’re in this fight together.”

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