Other Issues / Announcements

In a city of 900 000 voters, it costs money to run an election campaign. Ideally, our city council campaign will be able to fundraise to pay a few staff to coordinate volunteers, but...

A lot of people in our city have strong views about escooters. Some think that they’re so dangerous that they should be banned outright, others think they’re an important piece of the transport mix...

There was a bit of sensationalist (and factually incorrect) coverage last week about some of the Greens’ Brisbane City Council policies regarding First Nations peoples. There’s obviously a long list of important projects and...

A Greens-led Brisbane City Council would refuse to support the 2032 Olympics if the state government insists on spending $3 billion knocking down and rebuilding the Gabba to serve as the major athletics venue....

Yesterday afternoon I attended a thought-provoking forum organised by the Brisbane West Lions Club about the transport priorities and challenges for the Moggill-Bellbowrie area, which is on the city’s south-western outskirts (but on the...

Right now, there are roughly 622 000 international tertiary education students living in Australia, with another 90 000 studying Australian courses remotely. Every year, thousands of young people from across the world flow through...

Today I’m announcing that I’m running as the Greens candidate for Mayor of Brisbane in the March 2024 local government elections. This wasn’t a decision I’ve come to lightly. But after thinking deeply about...

In certain circles, there's been a lot of reporting and commentary about how Brisbane doesn’t have a well-known ‘brand’ and that this is supposedly a problem to be solved in the lead-up to the...

Why Are Homes So Expensive? Our housing system is broken. Homelessness is rising, and Australia’s property market looks increasingly unsustainable. Here in Brissie, more and more residents are stuck renting in the private sector...

My final official speech as Councillor for the Gabba Ward was delivered in the Brisbane City Council chamber during General Business on Tuesday, 28 March, 2023... Speech transcript: I first acknowledge and offer my...

Here's a zine we produced to help explain our ideas for how transport in Brisbane can and should become healthier, cheaper and more sustainable. (You might also be interested in this recent article which...

Dear neighbours, I emailed you a general local update last week (doublecheck your inbox if you haven’t read it yet), but I’m writing to you today to confirm some big news… Yesterday I announced...

Please note that some of the info in these newsletters (especially event listings) can go out of date quite quickly. Newsletter date: 22/03/2023 Dear neighbours, It’s an increasingly difficult time for more and more...

We've closed our community poll regarding whether to relocate one of the Blue Cityglider stops on Montague Rd, so that the service stops near Raven St and the Montague Markets precinct, rather than further...

Please note that some of the info in these newsletters (especially event listings) can go out of date quite quickly. Newsletter date: 03/03/2023 Dear residents, You might have noticed that this week’s email newsletter...

  Please note that some of the info in these newsletters (especially event listings) can go out of date quite quickly.   Dear residents, I hope you’ve been coping ok with recent heatwaves. Such...

South Bank Corporation has produced a draft master plan to guide the future evolution of the South Bank precinct, and sought feedback from the general public and other stakeholders. At the time of posting,...

For several years now, we’ve been advocating strongly for a new dog off-leash area (‘DOLA’) in the 4101 postcode, because the two existing West End DOLAs weren’t big enough. My office allocated funding to...

Dear residents, We missed our last fortnightly email, as I had to take a couple days of leave. A few weeks ago on a Friday evening, I tried to calm down a man who...

Here's some more info regarding the citywide push to encourage more people to do their part in addressing the housing crisis. Make sure you check out our short zine and expression of interest page as well...