Hi, I’m Matthew. I’m a community services worker, queer activist, university student studying Environmental Science and one of your Greens candidates for the City of Sydney.

My clearest memories of when I first moved to Glebe are of the cold nights where I had to decide whether to pay my rent or put food on the table. Where I juggled multiple jobs trying, and often failing, to keep the lights on at home. And while those experiences for me are now in the past, for far too many in our city they are an ongoing reality.

And that’s why I’m running to join our Mayoral candidate, Councillor Sylvie Ellsmore, as part of an expanded Greens team. Because The Greens have a plan to build a Sydney for all of us. 

The Greens will build accessible, rent-capped public homes, power our city with cheap, clean, renewable energy, and make our city more affordable by expanding services like early childhood education.

Now, more than ever, we need representatives that are connected to community and understand the impacts of poverty and housing insecurity – it’s time we have a say in how our city is built, it’s time we are heard.

Imagine a Sydney where everyone has an affordable, accessible house to call home. Where the services and things you need to live your life are cheap and plentiful. Where the streets are vibrant and bustling, lined with trees, designed for people, not cars. Where public green space is expanded and our precious environment protected. That’s the Sydney The Greens will build. That’s the Sydney that by working together, is possible.

Read more about the Greens achievements on the City of Sydney Council, our vision for council and your Greens team for 2024 at www.sydneycitygreens.org