Since the family moved to Wudinna 15 years ago to run a bakery known for its vanilla slices and pasties, Habermann has watched the population decline. It’s exciting that you can actually make change Liz Habermann She meets regularly with other independents as part of the “Voices for” community group, which includes Warringah MP Zali Steggall, Indi’s Helen Haines and her predecessor Cathy McGowan, along with a range of hopefuls challenging Coalition-held seats. (The ABC reports that SA senator Rex Patrick may run for Grey, sparking speculation that his former colleague Nick Xenophon could return to politics via the empty Senate spot that would leave.) She thinks the region has been taken for granted by governments, and plans to change that by ousting the Liberals – the sitting MP, Peter Treloar, is set to be replaced by Sam Telfer at the election. She’s on the local Wudinna District Council, and people started talking to her about standing – at first, in the federal seat of Grey, held by Liberal Rowan Ramsey since 2007.īut she settled on the state seat, a Liberal stronghold. In the car, Rhys thanked Habermann for everything she’d done.īrett and Liz Habermann with their children Zac, Lewis, Jorja, Charlie and Rhys.
Now an adult, he checked himself out of hospital, and Habermann drove him home to Wudinna, a small town on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. Rhys, whom his mother describes as deep, caring and fearless, was horrified at the thought. Rhys was in palliative care, with a doctor suggesting more treatment even though there was no hope. Or we’d message him, with our hearts in our throats. There were times we’d come home and go to his door, and wonder what we’d find. “But we said … we’ll support him in whatever decisions he makes. Suicide is a tough subject, regardless of the circumstances.
“It wasn’t something I’d had to think about. “In the early days he’d asked each of us privately what we thought about euthanasia, about voluntary assisted dying. “We would often talk about it,” Habermann says. Not long after his 19th birthday, doctors said there was nothing more they could do, that the tumours were rampant throughout his body.
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