Federal MP for Swan, Zaneta Mascarenhas, puts her active travel money where her mouth is.
Being a WA-based, Federal MP is hectic, especially with two young children thrown into the mix, but the Victoria Park-based Mascarenhas clan is a confirmed 1-car family and wouldn’t have it any other way.
The family’s trusty cargo bike gets regular use – often with Felicity and Lincoln up front – for school runs, shopping or just cruising the ‘hood.
WestCycle caught up with Zaneta in a Vic Park park and learned how the co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Cycling group in Canberra came to love cycling, why she promotes cycling in transport policy discussions – and why she bought Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a bike pump.
“I always wanted to be one of those people that rode to work and the thing that facilitated that was becoming a mother,” she says. “Suddenly it became part of my habit every day. It was the fittest that I’d ever been.”
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