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A Q and A with Trumpet of Patriots’ Phillip Courtis

1. What’s one thing you would like Casey residents to know about you as a person or as a leader?

I’m not a career politician. I’m a hardworking Aussie who’s fed up with being ignored by the people in Canberra. I believe true leadership means listening, acting with integrity, and putting the needs of everyday Australians first. I won’t sugar-coat the truth, and I won’t compromise my values for political favours.

2. Can you tell us about your life outside of work?

I have a family, and like many of you, I juggle work, bills, and the everyday challenges of modern life. I’m actively involved in our community, enjoy camping in our beautiful ranges, and care deeply about the freedoms we’re leaving for our kids. I’m not in this for power. I’m in it because I genuinely care.

3. What do you believe are the three biggest issues facing the electorate?

– Cost of living: From groceries to electricity, prices are out of control.

– Immigration and housing pressure: Casey can’t keep absorbing the impacts of mass migration.

– Local infrastructure, especially our roads, and mobile blackspots: Regional communities are being left behind.

4. What are some of your key policies both locally and nationally that you would like to highlight?

Locally, we’ll fight to eliminate mobile blackspots and upgrade neglected roads. Nationally, the Trumpet of Patriots stands for:

• Capping immigration at 100,000 per year to protect housing, wages, and social cohesion.

• Protecting free speech and opposing digital ID and censorship bills.

• Introducing a 15 per cent resource license fee on iron ore exports to China, ensuring Australians benefit from our natural wealth.

• Restoring energy sovereignty by investing in coal, gas, and nuclear to lower your bills and end blackouts.

• Calling for a full Royal Commission into the government’s handling of Covid-19.

• Scrapping diversity quotas and restoring merit-based hiring in the public service.

• Axing taxpayer-funded lobby groups like the Climate Council and “Voice” advisory bodies.

• Halting the creeping influence of the UN and WHO on Australian law.

• Protecting children by raising the minimum age for social media to 16 and ending gender ideology in schools.

5. What’s your number one policy to reduce cost of living pressures?

Unlocking domestic energy. We have the resources- coal, gas, and uranium—but we’ve been locked into globalist climate policies that drive up prices. We’ll reverse that, invest in affordable, reliable power, and put downward pressure on every Aussie household budget.

6. Why should people give you their vote on 3 May? What’s your final elevator pitch if someone is undecided?

Because the major parties have failed you, whether it’s Labor, Liberals, or the Teals. They all support the same globalist agenda. I’m offering a genuine alternative that puts Casey first, Australia first, and common sense back into politics.

If you feel like things are getting worse, not better, it’s because they are. I’m not asking for blind trust. I’m asking for your vote to send a message to Canberra that we’re done with weak leadership, endless spin, and policies that hurt everyday Australians. It’s time to vote for change. It’s time to vote Trumpet of Patriots and bring common sense back to Parliament.

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