Murray is a public housing tenant and community leader with Better Renting and Sydney Alliance. He believes effective community solutions must combine lived experience with policy expertise. A Dean’s Scholar graduate from UOW, he studied social policy while working in youth homelessness through street outreach and refuge services. As a policy officer for Mental Health Association NSW, Murray focused on the housing challenges created by psychiatric institutionalisation. Believing in the power of a well-organised civil society, he formed a cross-sector policy committee to coordinate mental health and housing policy. Currently, he galvanises community involvement and engages government on tenancy and household energy reforms. Murray sees broad alliances as key to turning Shelter’s strengths into community wins and is eager to help deepen these relationships.