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Warren Grzic (Ungrouped Independent)
Apr. 28th, 2025 11:48 pmWarren Grzic (Ungrouped Independent)
Website: https://wordsofwarren.wixsite.com/warren4senate
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrzicWarren
(My review for the 2022 Federal Election)
Everyone loves a perennial candidate! I have reviewed Grzic before; he’s a serial candidate, having run as a federal ungrouped independent in 2016 and 2022, and for NSW state and federally in 2019 for Sustainable Australia (not top of the ticket). This gives some idea of what his views are on various issues.
Grzic is promoting himself as the ‘fresh voice’ for NSW in the spirit of Jacqui Lambie or David Pocock. Given his number of attempts running and lack of success (and indeed, his lack of a box above the line) I am unswayed that he’s going to achieve this aim.
He has a genuine policy platform on his website this year (this has not always been the case in previous occasions) and honestly, it’s a lot of the general centrish wishlist a lot of parties have been running on.
Grzic has a very Sustainable Australia view on housing: he thinks we already have enough supply, and that negative gearing is great, as ‘most landlords are not that wealthy’ and ‘negative gearing enables them to offer affordable rent’ (I am dubious about this claim). He instead wants a ban on foreign ownership, abolish the capital gains discount, and empty homes and lots renovated and built upon. Also rent caps, because he does admit that renting is expensive right now.
There is a cost of living policy, but it’s mostly raise the tax free threshold to $26k, have a national gas reservation policy and more solar panels to combat electricity prices, and invest more in general practitioners for preventative medicine.
Grzic does not want more more immigration and honestly this whole policy is straight from what Sustainable Australia talk about (did they not let you run this time, Grzic?)
Grxic’s great idea to help decrease pollution is more investment in public transport (which he says environmentalists hardly ever talk about. I don’t know which ones you’ve been talking to, Grzic, but I can introduce you to plenty of them!)
As I read through his policies, my main take away is that Grzic doesn’t really have any solidly thought out policies. He has issues, and he’s got some ideas for what might help fix those issues, but a lot of it is small scale and targeted at a single part of the situation. And that’s not necessarily bad, as he is just one guy. But it feels like maybe he really should go back and talk to his former party and help them out, as a lot of his policy ideas aren’t even on the scale that if he were elected and a party was trying to buy his vote in the Senate, he would have a tangible idea of what to bargain for.
Website: https://wordsofwarren.wixsite.com/warren4senate
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrzicWarren
(My review for the 2022 Federal Election)
Everyone loves a perennial candidate! I have reviewed Grzic before; he’s a serial candidate, having run as a federal ungrouped independent in 2016 and 2022, and for NSW state and federally in 2019 for Sustainable Australia (not top of the ticket). This gives some idea of what his views are on various issues.
Grzic is promoting himself as the ‘fresh voice’ for NSW in the spirit of Jacqui Lambie or David Pocock. Given his number of attempts running and lack of success (and indeed, his lack of a box above the line) I am unswayed that he’s going to achieve this aim.
He has a genuine policy platform on his website this year (this has not always been the case in previous occasions) and honestly, it’s a lot of the general centrish wishlist a lot of parties have been running on.
Grzic has a very Sustainable Australia view on housing: he thinks we already have enough supply, and that negative gearing is great, as ‘most landlords are not that wealthy’ and ‘negative gearing enables them to offer affordable rent’ (I am dubious about this claim). He instead wants a ban on foreign ownership, abolish the capital gains discount, and empty homes and lots renovated and built upon. Also rent caps, because he does admit that renting is expensive right now.
There is a cost of living policy, but it’s mostly raise the tax free threshold to $26k, have a national gas reservation policy and more solar panels to combat electricity prices, and invest more in general practitioners for preventative medicine.
Grzic does not want more more immigration and honestly this whole policy is straight from what Sustainable Australia talk about (did they not let you run this time, Grzic?)
Grxic’s great idea to help decrease pollution is more investment in public transport (which he says environmentalists hardly ever talk about. I don’t know which ones you’ve been talking to, Grzic, but I can introduce you to plenty of them!)
As I read through his policies, my main take away is that Grzic doesn’t really have any solidly thought out policies. He has issues, and he’s got some ideas for what might help fix those issues, but a lot of it is small scale and targeted at a single part of the situation. And that’s not necessarily bad, as he is just one guy. But it feels like maybe he really should go back and talk to his former party and help them out, as a lot of his policy ideas aren’t even on the scale that if he were elected and a party was trying to buy his vote in the Senate, he would have a tangible idea of what to bargain for.
