[3] Paech is the only openly gay male MP in the NT Legislative Assembly, and before entering politics, he was a prominent LGBT rights activist.

[citation needed] He went on to study at Charles Darwin University in the fields of environmental and land management, conservation, and horticulture.

[5] Paech also introduced a suite of amendments to the Northern Territory's anti-discrimination laws to give better protections for vulnerable people and minority groups.

[8] Paech has condemned the Northern Territory Emergency Response, commonly known as the Intervention, and the succeeding Stronger Futures policy.

[11] The ABC's election analyst Antony Green believed that Anderson's endorsement made Namatjira "a certain Labor gain.

Ahead of the 2020 Territory election, a redistribution erased Paech's majority in Namatjira and made it a notional CLP seat.

Paech believed this made Namatjira impossible to hold and ran for re-election in neighbouring Gwoja, winning easily.