With the community, I successfully organised opposition to a council proposal to cut more than 3,600 properties from Pittwater’s Conservation Zones. Most recently, on behalf of all councillors, I revised and strengthened the NBC submission rejecting the NSW government’s proposal to increase density across residential zones.

One of my main goals as a councillor has been to secure a Tree Canopy Plan for the Northern Beaches. I achieved this last September, with inclusions to protect mature trees as well as to plant them in areas without canopy. I’ve also secured extra funding for bushcare, and worked to improve council-promoted awareness of local priority weed species.

During my term, I have also initiated a Coastal Management Working Group and is the NBC councillor representative on the Sydney Coastal Councils Group. As part of that group, I support initiatives such as a campaign to reject the NSW Government’s attempts to shift costs for NSW Beachwatch to local government. I’m also the councillor rep on the Currawong State Park Advisory Committee and has been an active member of the council’s Communications, Arts and World Pride Working Groups.

As a journalist, I previously worked for the Australian Associated Press and carried out research in the Demography Department at the ANU. I hold an undergraduate degree from the ANU in Modern History and Aboriginal Studies, as well as a Masters in Journalism from London University.