Articles by Sonya Semmens
- Profile
- Sonya Semmens is a community-builder and NGO worker, mum of two, living on the unceded Bunurong lands of the Kulin Nation. She was the Greens candidate for Macnamara in the recent federal election.
Democracy, Featured, Social Justice
“I am because we are”
“I didn't win a seat, but my god I've won a neighbourhood”, writes Sonya Semmens on her Macnamara campaign. In an atomised society where “people see themselves not as part of a collective, but an individual — alone and powerless”, electoral politics, Sonya argues, must serve the deeper work of rebuilding community. [...]