VISION

Over the past 8 years it has been my honour to represent the residents of Wombolano Ward as a Councillor, Mayor in 2020/2021 & 2023/2024 and as Deputy Mayor in 2019.

As we navigate the many challenges facing our community, we need advocates with experience and empathy. We need Councillors who will listen and advocate on behalf of ALL residents. 

I'm standing for Council because I am passionate about making OUR local community a better place to live, work and play for all residents. 

I seek your support to continue doing this and encourage you to VOTE 1 for me, your independent candidate for Wombolano.

When RE-ELECTED I will continue to:

Protect and Enhance our Liveability 

• Continue advocacy to keep Maroondah Hospital in Maroondah

• Protect the amenity of our suburbs 

• Continue to support appropriate development within the community & protection for our heritage buildings

• Continue to refuse development that does not enhance our amenity

• Continue to push the State government to ensure their planning laws don’t ruin our amenity

• Ensure our streetscapes remain leafy and green, the very reason most of us chose to live here

• Continue to support the accelerated street tree-planting program

• Protect our street trees from removal unnecessarily

• Advocate for a significant tree register across Maroondah including street trees and reserves

• Continuing to advocate for better pedestrian safety barriers across the rail line in Canterbury Road, Heathmont

• Continue supporting and advocating for the expansion of Council’s Solar Saver program

• Continue to advocate for and support our Greening the Greyfields pilot program 

• Continue to be strong against approving additional addictive pokies in Maroondah 

Connecting our community

• Champion and promote a vibrant arts & cultural scene – accessible for all residents 

• Continue to Advocate for female friendly change facilities for girls & women playing community sport

• Continue to Advocate and support updates for our Maternal Child Health Centre’s to ensure they meet community needs into the future

• Continue to advocate and support upgrades for our Kindergarten’s

• Continue to Advocate and support our Community Houses and our most vulnerable residents

• Continue to Advocate for playground upgrades throughout the municipality – ensuring this includes playgrounds for specific needs that are distributed across Maroondah with easy access for all residents

• Ensure that community consultation is at the heart of good local council policy

• Proactively support inclusion and diversity through my work with Maroondah Disability Advisory Group and various community groups such as Different Journeys, Pathway for Carers, Stroke a Chord Choir and Glen Park Community Pantry

• Continue to support upgrades to our community and sporting facilities

• Continue Supporting our volunteers & community organisations so they are able to achieve their goals 

• Continue to Advocate and support the enhancement of our Libraries

• Continue to Advocate and support increased investment in footpaths to improve accessibility for all

• Continue to support and empower our residents to participate in all forms of community consultations online & in person 

• Continue to collaboratively work with all Councillors, staff and levels of government

Champion our strong local economy 

• Continue to advocate and support our local businesses to provide us with not only fantastic local services, but to continue to employ the more than 9000 people they currently do, who live within our community.

• Advocate for the Bayswater Business Precinct (BBP) to ensure continued local employment opportunities for our residents – BBP contributes over $14billion into our local economies

• Review our procurement policy to ensure we are using local businesses whenever possible

• Advocating for and work with our Traders groups to strengthen our Activity centre in Ringwood, our Neighbourhood Centres – Heathmont Village & Ringwood East and our strip shopping centres on Canterbury Road & Bedford Road 

• Integrating Smart City ideas so we can use technology to further improve Maroondah & save rate-payer money