About Leigh
Leigh Gray is a forty-year-old father of four who has worked in the customs industry in Hobart for the past twenty three years.
He lives at Brighton with his wife Prue and his young children Michaela, Ainsleigh, Emmeline and Llewellyn.
Leigh loves spending time with his family and is committed to improving his local community. He has been actively involved with several local organisations including the Brighton Football Club where he has played for the past 7 years and has been the President for the past 3 years.
Leigh believes in fairness, the ideal of a fair go and that hard work will bring benefits.
Leigh's commitment to hard work and the local community prompted him to run for Brighton Council in 2005. Since his election he has worked hard to be open, honest and accessible by acting in the best interests of the community to achieve the best possible outcomes.
He believes a worthy representative should be available, reliable and in touch with the important issues that local residents face every day.
Leigh Gray is a fresh voice, a determined and local representative who knows the local issues and is fighting hard on your behalf to improve our local community.
Campaigning for lower grocery prices - let's get ALDI to come to Tassie!
Leigh Gray is spearheading the campaign for lower grocery prices in Tasmania by promoting greater competition in the supermarket sector.
CHOICE has confirmed that Tasmanians pay the most for grocery prices in the country and have found ALDI supermarkets to be more than 40 per cent cheaper than the major chains.
Leigh has been proactive in his communications with discount supermarket chain ALDI to encourage them to bring forward their plans to set up in Tasmania.
Just some of the actions taken by Mr Gray to date in his campaign to get ALDI to Tasmania include:
- writing to Premier Bartlett asking him to explain what the State Government has done to date to get ALDI to Tasmania and requesting it be more proactive on this important issue;
- having discussions with representatives of ALDI;
- writing to ALDI inviting the company to give greater consideration to Tasmania;
- debating a motion in support for ALDI coming to Tasmania at a Brighton Council meeting;
- starting a doorknocking campaign to enlist additional community support;
- writing to councils to ask them to help lobby ALDI;
- confirming in discussions with CHOICE that they have found ALDI to be the cheapest supermarket chain;
- writing to Treasurer Aird calling on him to make the same effort with ALDI as former Treasurer Crean did with Liberty Oil;
- lodging a submission with the ACCC’s Grocery Inquiry requesting an assessment as to whether there are any barriers to entry that are discouraging competition in the Tasmanian grocery sector;
- writing to the Minister for Economic Development Ms Wriedt to have her Department conduct and audit of suitable development sites across the State; and
- calling on Premier Bartlett to broaden the scope of his petrol price summit to include grocery prices.
Leigh is confident that - if the State Government is proactive in encouraging ALDI to bring forward its plans to set up in Tasmania and - if the community can demonstrate its support for ALDI to come to Tassie then - we can make this happen.
If you would like to support or assist Leigh Gray in his campaign to encourage discount supermarket chain ALDI to set up in Tasmania please contact him at: leigh.gray@intas.net.au or on 0418 123 785.