Cyclists ride to farewell Brunswick's 'Mr Integrity'
More than 500 people gathered to celebrate late MP Tim Read, who pushed through pill testing and anti-corruption reforms.
Victoria's Greens leader Ellen Sandell called the late Brunswick MP Tim Read "Mr Integrity" as more than 500 people packed the Melbourne Town Hall for his state memorial service on Wednesday. A sea of more than 100 cyclists rode through the city to honour the medical doctor and researcher who became the first non-Labor representative for Brunswick in 2018.
Read died on 19 September from metastatic skin cancer that spread from a melanoma removed years earlier. In parliament, he led the landmark Integrity and Oversight Committee that helped strengthen Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog.
His fingerprints were all over public health reforms. These included pill testing, abolition of public drunkenness laws, allowing gay men to donate blood, and a statutory ban on solitary confinement in prisons.
Cross-party colleagues from the Premier down remembered him as a man of principle who never sat down on what he believed in.
- More than 500 people
- Memorial attendance
- More than 100
- Cyclists
- September 19
- Death date
- First non-Labor MP for Brunswick in 2018
- Historic election
Why it mattersA respected MP's death marks the end of an influential voice for transparency and reform in Victorian parliament.
AustraliaVictorian health and justice policies he shaped will outlast him; his seat will be contested in the state election next month.
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