Statement on the 2010 State Election

By then I will have completed nearly seventeen years in Parliament, as the Member for Coburg and then for Brunswick.

I have been proud and humbled to represent this wonderful community. It has been absorbing and fulfilling work that I have greatly enjoyed.

However, I feel it is time to move on, and allow the opportunity for new blood.

In the next 18 months, there are a number of exciting projects to realise in the electorate – the rebuilding of the Brunswick baths, major capital investments in local schools and the continued improvement to local public transport and cycling infrastructure. In the future, I intend to return to my profession as an urban planner and I will be undertaking a postgraduate degree.