For the Australian Citizens Party, Jeff Davy is contesting for the seat of Nicholls in the 2025 federal election.
Mr Davy is a Numurkah resident who has served in various roles within the community, including as secretary of the Katunga Scouts and the Katunga Football Club.
If elected, Mr Davy will fight to reform Australia’s banking system, which he has been studying for 35 years.
Mr Davy proposed that implementing postal, infrastructure and development banks across the country would help Australians achieve “economic sovereignty”.
“(We want) a post office bank, number one, to bring cash back to rural areas,” Mr Davy said.
“An infrastructure bank, for the property infrastructure that we need to do, maintaining our roads, schools and hospitals.
“And the development bank is there to develop new dams and electricity, with the growing population.”
The privatisation of water is a point of concern for Mr Davy, who said it “is part of a system which is flawed”.
“The government is buying up more water now ... it’s a flawed policy, and flawed thinking,” he said.
“We need to build more dams.”
Mr Davy identifies other key issues faced by the Nicholls electorate as the state of the roads, the declining farming industry and the rising cost-of-living.
Along with roads, the increasing crime rate, especially theft, are some of the top issues Mr Davy sees in Campaspe Shire Council.
Of the council’s advocacy priorities, flood mitigation and compensation for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan were his main priorities.
“The flood issue is probably number one. I know some people have left their houses there, they’ve just walked away from it because there’s no insurance,” Mr Davy said.
As a longtime Nicholls resident, Mr Davy said, if elected, he would advocate for the electorate on a national scale.
“It would give me a great deal of satisfaction to be able to get up there and start to call out the people that haven’t done anything,” he said.
“There have been politicians there for 20 years. Look at the direction of the country.
“They’re the ones who are responsible for the cost-of-living crisis.”
To stay up to date on election day, check in on the Riv website as McPherson Media Group will be running a live blog on May 3 featuring content from polling booths across Nicholls, as well as live poll updates.
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