Making sense of the senate
by Michele Nardelli
A regular on the Deans Merit List, a member of the Golden Key Honour
Society and just months away from completing a double degree in
International Business and International Studies, Kane Winther is taking on
yet another challenge.
Kane is running for the Senate in the next election on a ticket that, well, is entirely individual no party politics, just the skills he has learned in his degree studies mediation, management, ethics and evaluation.
I think political alliances are really antithetical to problem solving issues are complex and need to be solved without buying into oppositional models of politics, Kane says.
And while he joined the election campaign as part of Channel 7s high profile Vote for Me promotion on the Sunrise program, Kane says he is serious about his quest.
I think I might be more than they bargained for I am very serious about this it is important that people are represented with integrity. I am learning some things just in the campaign about how people choose to play power politics it is a whole other kind of education.
The way democracy is evolving in Australia is not heartening people have lost trust in their politicians and it is easy to see why. I would really love to redress that to win a seat in the Senate and actually represent the State, not pay lip-service to that representation.