Mr Speaker, it's my privilege and pleasure to introduce you to some of the people in the gallery above us who believe in the power of local democracy: volunteers for my campaign—among them, doctors, students, retirees, unionists, a COVID returnee, an African freedom fighter, a solo mum of three, a bus driver, and a temple leader. Some I have been organising with since I was a teenager, and some I met in the final months of the campaign. I see in them a practical manifestation of the community organising politics that I believe in. 