The Sustainable Australia Party has surveyed candidates for the 2020 Local Government Elections concerning their views on a number of local government issues – campaign donations, heritage protection, and the say local residents and communities have in planning matters.
In the Southern Metropolitan Region Councils, the following candidates put forward strong and clear positions supporting better heritage protection, supporting more say for residents in planning issues, and opposing campaign donations by property developers.
BAYSIDE CITY COUNCIL
Rob Grinter
Nicholas Batzialas
Selda Cengiz
BOROONDARA CITY COUNCIL
Wes Gault
Di Gillies
Lisa Hollingsworth
Dennis Whelan
Simon Denton
GLEN EIRA CITY COUNCIL
David Zyngier
Alan Grossbard
Con Zois
KINGSTON CITY COUNCIL
Cindy Rella
Victoria Oxley
Jillian Van
James Miles Carey
Irma Shelton
Dallas Riseley
Janet Woodcock
David Walker
Anthony Davis
MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL
Richard Belcher (Sustainable Australia member)
MONASH CITY COUNCIL
Shane Dwyer
Lynnette Saloumi (Sustainable Australia member)
PORT PHILLIP CITY COUNCIL
Stephen Armstrong (Sustainable Australia member)
Dennis Bilic (Sustainable Australia member)
Stan Gyles
STONNINGTON CITY COUNCIL
Adam Kopf
Michaela Moran (Sustainable Australia member)
Peter Hammond
Sally Davis
Sarah Barton
Rebecca Monck
William Moore
WHITEHORSE CITY COUNCIL
Caroline Cook
David Coombs
Philip Daw
Dennis Fitzgerald
Minwen Wu
The following candidates put forward a strong and clear position opposing campaign donations from developers, and a middle of the road position on overdevelopment.
BAYSIDE CITY COUNCIL
Albert Matthews
David Rothfield
Derek Wilson
Jack Mills
Fiona Stitfold
Carlo Toncich
Marlene Johnson
Clifford Maillard
Paul Kalimnakis
Darren Mitchell
Evan Packer
BOROONDARA CITY COUNCIL
Gregory Ball
Susan Biggar
GLEN EIRA CITY COUNCIL
Simon Balzer
Harry Graeve
Nellie Khoroshina
KINGSTON CITY COUNCIL
Rez Chowdhury
Cameron Clarke
MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL
Michael Kennedy
Roz Shaw
Karin Whiteley
MONASH CITY COUNCIL
Danny Collins
Anjalee de Silva
Shane McCluskey
PORT PHILLIP CITY COUNCIL
Campbell Spence
Adrian Jackson
Heather Cunsolo
Geoffrey Conaghan
STONNINGTON CITY COUNCIL
Sonali Sanghvi
Gina Collins
Shenel Erkan
James D’Alessandro
WHITEHORSE CITY COUNCIL
Jarrod Gunn
Matthew Harris
Xzavier Kelly
Yi Chang Thomas Kennedy
Trudy Skilbeck
Santi Whiteside
Other candidates either did not respond to the questionnaire, or gave answers which did not instil confidence in their position on these issues.
I am attaching a link to the surveys so that you can see the Questions and Candidates answers yourself. I hope that you find this information of interest.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SGHRL8R
Yours sincerely,
Clifford Hayes
