Standing up for the needs of Mackellar
Chairman of Invictus Australia, former Army officer and Space Industry Association CEO James Brown has been selected by members as the Liberal Candidate for Mackellar, campaigning to give the community a representative focused on delivering on local needs.
James spent more than a decade in the Australian Army, including deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Solomon Islands. During that time, he commanded a cavalry troop on combat operations in Southern Iraq, completed a second Iraq deployment as a battle captain at Australia’s task force headquarters in Baghdad, and was responsible for operations and contingency planning for Australia’s operations in the Solomon Islands. In 2008 and 2009 James deployed to Afghanistan on an attachment to a coalition special operations task force.
After his military service, James worked at the Lowy Institute of International Policy and the United States Studies Centre before being elected as the youngest ever RSL President to lead the organisation through a significant period of reform. In 2020 James was appointed as the CEO of the Space Industry Association of Australia, leading more than 70 businesses working to enable space industry for Australia’s economy, security, international partnerships, and climate future. James is the Chairman and co-founder of Invictus Australia which supports more than 3000 veterans and helping the Australian contingent to compete at the international Invictus Games.
“While I was able to buy my first home in Mackellar, it’s something that’s increasingly out of reach for people – as households struggle just to put food on the table, let alone pull together a deposit. I have put my hand up for Mackellar to make sure that our community has a strong voice advocating for people struggling under Labor’s cost of living crisis, with skyrocketing rents, mortgages, food, petrol and energy costs smashing family budgets.”
“I’m standing up for families that are now paying tens of thousands of dollars extra for their mortgages every year, because the Labor Government has been mismanaging the Budget and our economy. Local households are seriously struggling to find the money to pay the additional rent and mortgage costs every month and it’s having a huge flow on effect for our community and local businesses.”
“Anthony Albanese said life would be “cheaper” under a Labor government and promised “cheaper mortgages”, but he has clearly failed. Families are seeing prices of everything from petrol and energy to food sharply going up – and they need a strong voice to stand up for them and their concerns.”
“Only a Liberal Government will take the pressure off households by reigning in Labor’s inflationary spending and bringing the Budget under control. Our community needs government funding for critical local infrastructure that is being ignored by the Albanese Labor Government, and I am running for Mackellar to make sure that our community has a strong advocate for the services and infrastructure that our community needs,” Mr Brown said.
“Mackellar is an extraordinary place, and we are all very fortunate to be a part of the Northen Beaches community - I will be a tireless campaigner in the fight to protect its unique character.
“Our community needs someone who will stand for the struggling families and small businesses, who will fight for the funding our services and infrastructure need, and who will ensure investment in our roads, schools and hospitals.”
“Only the Liberals have the track record of delivering lower interest rates and lower taxes, and voting Liberal is the only way to ensure our community gets the funding and support it needs”, James Brown concluded.
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