Candidates are listed in order of their electorates
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Endorsed Candidates |
Sitting EMILY's List members seeking Re-election |
Melissa Anderson for Bass
Melissa Anderson is a proud Launceston local and emerging political voice, running as a Labor candidate in the Tasmanian State Election. Born in 2004, Melissa represents a generation of young Tasmanians determined to stay, contribute, and lead.
After completing a traineeship at the Department of Justice and gaining experience in private finance, Melissa was invited to run for state parliament at just 19 years old a testament to her strong community values and clear-eyed vision for Tasmania’s future. She has since worked in the electorate office of Michelle O’Byrne, further deepening her understanding of public service and grassroots advocacy.
Melissa is running because she believes young Tasmanians deserve a voice in parliament one that reflects their challenges and aspirations. “Young Tasmanians are this State's largest export,” she says.
“Those who choose to stay face an impenetrable housing market, rising living costs, underfunded public education, and limited career pathways. This makes the mainland more attractive and leaves Tasmania's population aging and out of balance.”
Her campaign centres on restoring dignity to public education, rebuilding family services, and creating real opportunities in housing, employment, and higher education. For Melissa, the stakes are personal:
“Tasmania is my home. Its future and mine are interlinked. I have a stake in this.”
Grounded in the belief that every Tasmanian deserves a fair go, Melissa Anderson is a passionate advocate for equity, opportunity, and a future where young people can thrive—not just survive—right here at home.
Jess Greene for Bass
Jess is a proud public sector unionist, Deputy Mayor, and mum raising her family in northern Tasmania.
She has spent her career standing up for the public services that hold our communities together. As a Lead Organiser with the Community and Public Sector Union, she sees every day the damage caused when governments cut corners or outsource responsibility. She has fought alongside workers in housing, health, justice, and emergency services, and knows our state works best when we invest in people, not profit.
Jess sees that Tasmania has so much potential, but we need leaders who believe in a better future - one where schools, hospitals, housing, and frontline services stay in public hands and are properly funded to meet community need.
She wants Tasmanian kids to grow up in a state that’s fairer, stronger, and more secure. That’s why she's putting up her hand to run in Bass.
Amanda Diprose for Braddon
Amanda Diprose a Central Coast councillor who has served her community for the past decade.
As a proud North West Coaster for most of her life, Amanda is passionate about her region and wants to make it a better place to live.
Seeing the state go backwards under the Liberals, with people struggling in the cost-of-living crisis, has inspired Amanda to run for Labor to help give everyone a chance to succeed in life and ensure people are not missing out.
Amanda understands the difficulties people in her community face trying to make ends meet, keep a roof over their heads and feed their families.
She knows more can be done and she wants to contribute to that.
Amanda is a proven fighter for her community and is determined to do more to help young people and improve mental health services, and give everyone opportunities to live and work in the region.
Cheryl Fuller for Braddon
With over 18 years of volunteer and local government service to the northwest region, Cheryl is excited to be an endorsed candidate for Labor for Braddon. A resident of West Ulverstone, Cheryl has a passion for volunteerism.
Cheryl is a mother of two children who have both moved interstate to access university courses not offered here, and is keen to see Tasmania providing more opportunities for young people. She also wants to expand access to preventative health support.
She is the proud Mayor of Central Coast, Cheryl has led participation in mental health initiatives, working on shared service opportunities with neighbouring councils and celebrating our seasonal workers and migrant communities.
Cheryl knows that many of the issues that impact on the efficiency of councils are decided at a state level. This is why the instability, unsustainable budget, and failure to deliver for the people of Braddon by the current government have motivated Cheryl to do more.
This Liberal government has neglected Braddon – Cheryl won’t.
Chris Hannan for Franklin
Chris is a mental health professional, mum, and community services leader. She is running for state parliament because she knows how hard it can be to get the help you need and wants to change that.
Chris moved to Tasmania in 2013 as a single parent, later becoming a carer for both her father, who had dementia, and her young son, who’s now navigating the NDIS. Like many Tasmanian families, Chris's family spent years on waiting lists just to access basic services. She's lived the gaps in our system and is determined to fix them.
With a background in social work, law, and community leadership, Chris has spent her career standing up for others.
Now, she's ready to stand up for Franklin in Parliament.
Amelia Meyers for Franklin
Amelia is a proud Tasmanian, raised in Richmond in the Coal River Region, and now calls Hobart’s eastern shore home.
Her life has been shaped by a strong passion for improving the community around her, and works as an educator, whilst actively studying teaching at the University of Tasmania.
Amelia is running as part of Labor's Franklin team because she believes in building a better future where every child, family and business in Tasmania has the opportunity to thrive.
Having seen the challenges young Tasmanians face — from rising living costs to access to affordable housing and having to leave for the mainland to find opportunities — Amelia is standing for change.
Jess Munday for Franklin
Jess has spent the majority of her career fighting for working people in Tasmania, because she knows what it’s like to struggle to get by. She grew up in a housing department house in Kingston, and knows what it's like to not have food in the cupboard as a kid.
Jess’s working history is diverse – from supermarkets, to call centres, the Army Reserve, and Centrelink, which was where she got involved in the union movement. Jess became a workplace delegate with the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) while working in a Centrelink call centre and started working for the union during the Your Rights @ Work campaign. It was John Howard’s attacks on working people through his anti-union WorkChoices legislation, which cut workers' pay and took away rights to protection from unfair dismissal, that really got Jess fired up to stand up for workers.
Fighting for workers and their families is both what Jess does, and who she is.
Over the last almost decade leading the union movement in Tasmania, Jess has fought against Liberal Party cuts to jobs and take-home pay for workers, and she’s stood up for Tassie’s public services. She’s fought privatisation, offshoring, and labour hire workers getting paid less than employees.
Jess also has broad experience in superannuation and workplace safety. She is a director of a profit-to-member industry superannuation fund and sits on the state’s workplace safety board. She also leads a community legal centre that was established by the union movement to help injured workers access free legal advice when they’ve been injured at work.
She has a degree in political science and public policy, qualifications in workplace health and safety, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Jess has lived in Franklin most of her life. She is raising her three kids here and doesn’t want them to have to leave Tasmania to get a job that pays well or to have decent access to health and education.
Jess is hoping to take her passion and experience advocating for working people and their families from the streets to the Parliament.
Current EMILY's List members seeking Re-election
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Anita Dow Member for Braddon Elected 2018 |
Ella Haddad Member for Clarke Elected 2018 |
Meg Brown Member for Franklin Elected 2024 |
