Dr. Nola Firth was elected to Tweed Shire Council in 2021. Nola is passionate about the Tweed community and caring for our internationally significant environment. In addition to Council duties, Cr. Firth is an academic and a writer.

“I am very proud to have achieved many goals in this term. Some of these include:

  • actioning the Cool Towns urban heat and native habitat project (by staffing and funding),
  • textile recycling and a reusable nappy rebate
  • the ‘Give a Rats’ campaign
  • increased native tree protection and native tree replacement ratios in development applications
  • an anti-ageist agenda

If elected again, I want to continue progressing such issues, including:

  • social and affordable housing in high density areas and homelessness support
  • increased resourcing of weed management, with weeds being a key contributor to loss of biodiversity in our precious World heritage area
  • building more of our economy and jobs on new opportunities such as active transport infrastructure, weed management, regenerative agriculture and climate friendly house retrofitting”