User:Jameswakkawakka

James Leslie Williams (born 1st December 1960) is a First Nations member of the Australian Greens. Williams has been a member of the Greens for over 10 years after switching allegiances from one of the two major parties after they failed to reverse a policy which had an extremely detrimental impact on the lives of Aboriginal people. He ran for Buckley ward the Moonee Valley Council elections in October 2016, and was extremely successful in getting 12 % of the vote for his first ever attempt for a local council seat. James began his career as a Watchmaker after finishing High School at Christian Brothers College in Rockhampton in Central Queensland, 10 years later going o the road as a professional musician and an actor for four years. He then went back to studying to complete 3 Diplomas, Business Management, Project Management and Information Technology, then another 15 years of working as a Computer Engineer, then IT Manager, and returning to start his Bachelors Degree in Information Technology in 2013, all the while actively involved in supporting and campaigning for many Greens candidates, assisting them in their election to Local Council and State and Federal Parliaments. James has most recently worked as an ICT Director or IT Manager in 3 Schools, but the most satisfying time in his career was the two and a half years he spent working at Australian Red Cross as a National ICT Service Delivery Manager, a component of his work involved, fixing the remote and extremely remote Red Cross offices in mainly Aboriginal communities, where it was not only difficult to access good ICT infrastructure getting IT to work in these remote areas was considered to be quite hard, James had all of the remote ARC offices working at the same level as the Head Office in Melbourne, making it so much easier for the mainly Aboriginal staff to carry out their Humanitarian work. With the success of the Moonee Valley Council elections, james has now been spurred on to nominate for the State seat of Essendon in the up coming election in Victoria.