Welcome! My name is Remah Naji. I’m your Greens candidate for the Federal seat of Moreton.
I am a local mum, education worker and community organiser.
Central to my belonging to this country is my connection with its First Nations people. I acknowledge that I live, work and breathe on the land of the Yuggera and Turrbal people and I pay my respects to their elders past and present.
Over the past 8 years, Moreton has become the place I now call home. I’ve lived in Yeronga, Annerley, Pallara, and now Tarrigindi is where I am raising my family, with two kids who try to get involved in every extracurricular activity they possibly can!
From participating in local community forums to volunteering at school fetes and playgroups, my connection to Moreton extends beyond mere geography. Every corner of this electorate holds a piece of my personal history and sense of belonging: the community centre where I first met my best friends, the park where my first child learned how to climb a tree, and the local libraries where I spent countless hours reading and connecting to neighbours and community members.
This connection to members of the community, from neighbours, to business owners, to diverse communities has cultivated a sense of belonging that is deeply rooted in shared experiences.
From the families who have to make difficult choices between putting food on the table and paying their rent or mortgage payment, to the workers who juggle multiple jobs or long hours just to make ends meet amid soaring cost of living and housing crisis, our community deserves better political representation than the lesser of two evils.
I am standing up for my community to turn my passion for a better world into tangible action.
A people-powered movement
Growing up Palestinian among Palestinian refugees helped shape my sense of justice. I refuse to accept homelessness, poverty, racism, and domestic and sexual violence as normal aspects of our society. I refuse to live in a world where genocide is normalised and accountability is obscured, and I will not wait decades to see justice prevail.
From First Nations justice, to climate, housing, disability justice, workers’ rights and more, this movement is not leaving anyone behind. As a woman of colour who has forged deep connections with groups of people from all kinds of backgrounds, I am here to build a coalition that amplifies voices that might otherwise be unheard - or ignored.
If we are to freeze rents and build public housing, cancel HECS debt and make university free again, and bring dental and mental health into Medicare, then it’s going to take all of us. If we are serious about representing diverse communities, we need to ensure that everyone has a seat at the table and that our voices are central to every discussion. This means moving beyond alienation and stereotypes to truly listen and engage with each perspective.
If you believe in a better world, where political parties don’t receive millions in corporate donations and aren’t influenced by lobbyists but rather by the voices of their communities, then you can donate or volunteer to get involved in this movement.
Remah and activism
Rising up and forging solidarity with ordinary people fighting for equality, human rights and justice have largely inspired me and have uniquely informed my politics. This is the type of solidarity that stretches beyond self-interest and creates spaces of moral capital where people of all backgrounds, religions, no religion, genders, sexualities, classes and abilities stand up for each other.
This solidarity forms the basis from which to build coalitions for systemic change that stretch beyond national borders. I’m not just interested in ensuring every Queenslander, or every Australian, has a better quality of life. I want everyone in the world to have access to everything they need to live a good life, and that starts by acknowledging the possibilities of democracy that are truly dependent on interconnectedness.
The cost of the current system that the major parties desperately defend is apparent: as billionaires get richer, people are being broken by the rental and cost of living crises, or forced and kept out of their homes and ancestral lands. What we are building here is bigger than the oppressive systems that are fuelled by ordinary people’s struggles, because - as history has shown us time and again - collective power and organising are the only things that have forced those systems to change.
A better world is within reach. Join our movement today.
