Mr Williams is throwing his hat into the ring at next year’s council election.

“Politics is something I’ve always been extremely interested in,” he said.

“What better way to do it than on a local level?”

Mr Williams, who celebrates his 32^nd birthday tomorrow, is vocal in the areas of suicide prevention and mental health, domestic violence and alcohol and drug abuse and misuse.

“I’ve got a lot of fingers in a lot of different pies but I’m not going to stick to one vision,” he said.

“But if you don’t see these as an issue, you’re probably walking around with your eyes closed.”

Mr Williams hangs at the skate park in Ashmont with Indigenous youth and runs a youth program out of Tolland.

He believes a young voice on council is the key to getting issues addressed with prevention and awareness programs.

“A lot of critical concerns in and around town relate to youth,” he said.

“I’m seeing a time when a younger vision, I feel, is so important.

Mr Williams wants to support current councillors and work alongside them for a better Wagga.

“I want to provide a stronger voice behind closed doors,” he said.

“I can only see something like going on council as a positive.”

Mr Williams said he wants to also use his standing in the Aboriginal community to bridge the education gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and strive towards reconciliation.

“I’d like to provide a voice for Aboriginal people but also show then that once you put your mind to something, you can do it,” he said.

Mr Williams also wants to use his standing within the NRL as a former player to bring more national games to the country.

Mr Williams said that even if he was not elected to council, he would continue to fight for these issues.

But he believes a standing on Wagga City Council would hold him in good stead to have his ideas taken seriously.

“I won’t sit on my hands,” he said.

“If I have an opinion, I’ll get to the right people to have it heard.

“I’ll go down swinging right to the end.”