Angela White ran for the Greens party in Australia interview / podcast

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00:00This woman ran for office.

00:01I know she did.

00:01I read it.

00:02Did you win?

00:02I got the result that I wanted.

00:04I wouldn't have wanted to win because I wouldn't know what to do in that position.

00:08Can you explain to the audience what you ran for?

00:11So I was running against a Greens candidate, Kathleen Maltzen, and her platform was about

00:16shutting down all the brothels in Melbourne.

00:18She claimed to be a feminist that cared about the women, but any person involved in the

00:22work will tell you that once you close it down, you send it underground, you make it

00:25more dangerous.

00:25So it's actually worse for the sex workers when you do something like that.

00:30So my whole platform was just to draw attention to the fact that Kathleen Maltzen was running

00:35on this campaign and she was running for the Greens, which is usually very progressive,

00:38usually very like sex positive, sex worker friendly, but not in this case.

00:42So I just wanted to draw votes away from her so she didn't win because she had a strong

00:46chance of winning and she didn't win.

00:48So I achieved what I wanted to achieve.

00:50If I had won, that would have been incredible.

00:54I would have won.

00:55You could figure it out.

00:56Actually listening to the constituents, all they wanted was for me to address the traffic

01:00on Hoddle Street.

01:01Like I have nightmares about the traffic on Hoddle Street.

01:03Every town meeting was, what are you going to do about the traffic on Hoddle Street?

01:05What's going on Hoddle Street?

01:06Oh, it's busy.

01:07So much traffic.