‘The most fundamentally decent of people’: Transparency campaigner and Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64

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Share A A A “My bucket list is no longer important to me … it’s more important to me now to see smiles on the faces of those I love.”

Those were some of state Greens MP Dr Tim Read’s last words in parliament, after he announced his intention to retire at November’s election due to a cancer diagnosis, for which he’d run out of treatment options.

Read died on Saturday, aged 64, surrounded by loved ones, from metastatic cancer.

Greens MP Tim Read in February this year. Simon Schluter “At this time of incredible pain and sadness, we offer our deepest love to his wife Angela, his children Louisa and Martin, and all of Tim’s family and friends,” a statement from Victorian Greens leader Ellen Sandell said.