Continuing on from my previous post.....Today at the Maitland MTC forum I believe there was an audience member who had formed a "mental model" around my decades long military service and me suggesting I'd be good at the defence portfolio if I was to be in parliament. I think the inference was that my background and portfolio preference would be in stark contrast to Green's philosophy.
Nothing could be further from reality!
It is precisely because of my background that I think I would make a superb Greens candidate (with the defence portfolio topping it off). If the Greens are going to break free from their "single issue party" tag then people like me need to put their hand up and tell everyone that being Green is not just about being a conservationist, activist or environmentalist! I don't fit the "with-in" party stereotype which means I certainly don't fit the outsider's stereotype of a Green and that's got to be good!
