TATURA’S Josh Hudson has announced his candidacy as a State Member for the Legislative Council (Upper House) for the Northern Victoria region. Once the Hudson For Northern Victoria party is registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission, Hudson will be nominated as a candidate to the Victorian Electoral Commission to run for the Hudson For Northern Victoria party.
Hudson, 33, is a married father of one who was born and has lived and worked in the Northern Victorian region all his life.
Having graduated from school at Nathalia, Hudson went on to study at La Trobe University and is a certified practising accountant. For the past five years, he has been the executive corporate services manager of the social enterprise The Work Group in Shepparton, which includes Worktrainers, GAME Traffic and Contracting and Recruitment Select.
Hudson has also been instrumental, behind-the-scenes, in helping to set up and/or support some of the most renowned social start-ups in the area such as the influential Greater Shepparton Lighthouse project and Ganbina (Indigenous school to work transition). He also has provided back-of-house support to the Community Fund Goulburn Valley for many years.
Hudson is president of the Tatura Children’s Centre and the past secretary and Match Day secretary of the Nathalia Football Netball Club (2004–2008). He is also an associate director of Goulburn Murray Community Leadership, which administers the Fairley Leadership Program, from which he graduated in 2017.
Hudson said, “I’ve seen evidence of strong grassroots advocacy in pockets of the region such as with Cathy McGowan in Indi and Suzanna Sheed in Shepparton, both strong independents who have been elected to the Lower Houses of the Federal and Victorian Parliaments, respectively.
“I’d like to see this kind of representation in the Victorian Legislative Council (Upper House) too, so our region has a voice in the Legislative Council. The Liberals, The Nationals and the Labor Party have not delivered for Northern Victoria.”
Josh needs at least 500 people to sign up to his party, for it to be registered, and is already well on his way but welcomes more supporters at www.hudson4nv.com
