Despi O’Connor
Despi O’Connor is an independent candidate for the Liberal-held seat of Flinders.
O’Connor is a councillor and former mayor of the Mornington Peninsula Council. She is also a teacher and marathon runner. She quit her job as a public school teacher in order to be eligible to run for parliament.
She says she has never been a member of a political party, and believes independents can “vote on conscience unlike party members who are required to vote on party lines”.
Her three main policy platforms are climate change action, integrity in politics including the establishment of an anti-corruption commission, and equality for all, especially women.
Other female candidates running in Flinders
