Major issues in our area include improving essential social infrastructure such as roads, footpaths, non-vehicular transport pathways, public transport, affordable housing, indigenous recognition, health services, employment, mental health, youth services etc.

Some of my focus has been very local, such as helping get funding for the Jindabyne skate park renewal, and some quite broad, such as introducing an electric vehicle fleet replacement strategy in Council. Frequently it is the small things a Councillor does, such as getting lights fixed in a public area to make elderly and other vulnerable people safer, or arranging hardship payments for financially stretched residents, that bring the most satisfaction.

I’ve served on numerous committees including aged care, the Bundian Way Committee, council’s development of a Reconciliation Action Plan, the Community Services Committee, the Audit committee, the Jindabyne library committee.  I chair the Monaro Interagency, a two monthly networking meeting of all the various social service groups on our region.  I’ve taken the initiative in installing EV infrastructure in Jindabyne and working with the trails committee to gain Council funding and support for our mountain bike trail volunteers. I’ve assisted local communities to successfully oppose development that would have destroyed a precious area of native woodlands.

Over the last four years of my term I have missed only one Council meeting, and that was in protest over what I considered to be an unacceptably short notice change of venue that I believed would have prevented residents from attending and speaking in the public forum of Council. I hope to be re-elected and continue to represent my community with integrity and energy as a proud Green.