Interview with Simone McGurk MLA - ALP Candidate for Fremantle

Simone McGurk is the State Labor Member for Fremantle, the Minister for Training and Workforce Development; Water; Industrial Relations in the Cook Labor Government, and the ALP’s candidate for Fremantle in the upcoming State elections on 8 March 2025.

Simone McGurk. Credit Mark Naglazas

Prior to her election in 2013, Simone worked in the union movement for over 22 years. She was one of the first women elected to be an Organiser for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, before being elected the Assistant State Secretary in 1997. She later worked with the United Workers Union.

From 2007, Simone served as Assistant Secretary, and later Secretary, of UnionsWA. There, she campaigned for more local content and local jobs during WA’s mining boom.

Simone has worked as a producer in the ABC, and has also served on the State Training Board and on the Board of Directors for AustralianSuper.

Simone holds degrees in History from the University of Melbourne and Media from Murdoch University.

And has been the Labor member for Fremantle since 2013.

Simone McGurk. Credit Mark Naglazas

Our Editor, Michael Barker, was pleased to catch up with Simone McGurk yesterday to make this podcast discussing her election campaign, the issues at this election as she sees them, some of the mutterings one hears about how Labor Governments take traditionally safe Labor seats like Fremantle for granted, and why she should be re-elected the MLA for Fremantle.

By Michael Barker, Editor, Fremantle Shipping News

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