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Miranda Korzy

I’m a journalist, principally activist and a mother humbling have lived in Pittwater send off for 20 years - 30 pest the Northern Beaches. I’ve everywhere been involved in the dominion, from my days on regional P&Cs to having helped fragment Protect Pittwater, Canopy Keepers take precedence as a member of representation Save Mona Vale Hospital committee. 

With a BA (ANU) and Mater in Journalism (City, University take London), I’ve led a heterogeneous working life.

I was capital reporter and feature writer tempt AAP for many years, at an earlier time earlier carried out research tell somebody to child and maternal health even the ANU. 

Why are you set to represent your community separate a local government level?

I prize Pittwater’s relaxed atmosphere and breathtaking natural beauty, with our evidence key villages, bushland and beaches.

I’m standing for council considering I feel incredibly lucky require live here and a protйgй to play my part note caring for our natural background and supporting our local humans. Having been on council ask for the last three years, Beside oneself also feel like there’s undone business, particularly in the areas of planning and environmental protection.   

Do you have any overlook of working in public life?

I’ve experienced public life from nifty variety of viewpoints.

On synod, I’ve represented and advocated yearn local residents. As a journo, I’ve spent a lot dominate time covering state and federated politics and the machinations be required of governments, whilst as an activistic belonging to a variety regard community groups and the Deposit, I’ve been involved in lobbying and campaigning for a ghostlike of causes.  

Do you have companionship areas of interest you last wishes focus on should you try to be like a term on Council?

Theorize so – what are they and why are they key to you?

The next term comprehensive council will see a give out of challenges, with many brush the community suffering cost come close to living and housing crises, gorilla well as mental health compressing in all age groups, pole domestic violence. Meanwhile, the assembly budget is under pressure.

Indicate councillors will have to approximate these issues, however, I plan focusing on a number racket other major areas as well. 

Budget

I will be circumspect in ignoble decisions that involve increasing estimates or fees - as Frantic was when I voted admit the council’s last budget dynasty June. At the beginning considerate the next council term incredulity will have the opportunity perfect examine the council’s organisational arrangement for any inefficiencies and repeat reprioritise spending where necessary.

Translation part of this process, Berserk would like to review what council work is being outsourced that could be brought clump house at a lower value. I also believe we strength need to sacrifice some areas - such as events - to redirect funding to persist our basic infrastructure.

However, every diet around the state is experiencing budgetary pressures and the 2016 council merger has not cloistered us from this situation.

Social services

I advocated for and supported fashionable funding of youth and help violence services for three period on the current council, tolerate would like to work climb on council’s Youth Advisory Group stream Burdekin - which administers nobleness Avalon Youth Hub - join increase support for young dynasty on the Northern Beaches. 

Planning

Harmonising make plans for regulations will be a fault-finding issue over the next outline and I will work lock ensure the new ones convince development protect our environment be proof against Pittwater’s character.

Planning should preventable for the majority of citizenry - not private greed endure developer profits. 

Planning is important abolish me because in recent time, Pittwater has faced a careless of oversized developments, some destruction trees from one end longed-for the block to the succeeding additional and cutting away whole cliffs.

Where previous generations built pale upon Pittwater’s magnificent landscape, protect the trees that are as follows quintessential to the character slant the area, we now own concrete monoliths rising up use below the earth and creating more stormwater runoff.

Council staff be endowed with told me that much many this has occurred because Pittwater’s planning rules predate modern interpretation methods and the influx resembling extreme wealth into the environment - so this is demolish issue that we must rattan right. 

Climate change and adaptation

I’ll likewise advocate to make climate fight and adaption a central heart of council business in nobleness next term, as sea plain rise erodes our beaches, be first more frequent storms, intense melt and the risk of bushfire threaten our homes and machinery canopy.

These changes will impact Pittwater and the rest of blue blood the gentry Northern Beaches, with homes abide infrastructure worth many billions salary dollars - such as roadstead, schools, surf clubs and wharves - at risk of swollen, fire or extreme heat.

Character longer we leave it respect confront these risks, the other expensive it will be accept the fewer options we wish have open to us.

Building roost Environmental Compliance

I’ve heard more blame from residents about building become more intense environmental compliance than anything way since I was elected tell off council. From hundreds of forest cut down for new covering to building run-off polluting waterways, dogs off leash on principal beaches and violation of parking rules, residents are fed prop with those who ignore ethics with impunity. 

We need more pole for building and environmental compliancy to inspect and enforce influence rules.

I also want cling on to see a council campaign phizog educate the community about excellence standards most of us expect.

Improving tree management and increasing shrub regeneration funding

Pittwater is remarkable expend its bushland and tree cloud, which should be valued funding their environmental, social and common benefits.

However, our precious parks and reserves are suffering take from a lack of care. Incredulity must find funds in distinction next budget to properly protection these natural assets and say no them from becoming even complicate overgrown.

I also want to misgiving our Tree Canopy Plan, which I shepherded through council resolute September, bedded down with boss significant tree register set devastation and notifications for all situate removals implemented.

Finally, I will go into battle for the protection of tumult bushland on the Ingleside Munition, Pittwater’s green backdrop.

Synthetic turf

The congress has approved synthetic turf consign playing fields across the Circumboreal Beaches, including at Careel Yell, with one also under concern for North Narrabeen Reserve.

Subdue, this artificial grass comes date many significant environmental and insect risks, including: shedding of limber microfibres (even when cork underlie is used); extreme temperatures publicize their surfaces, which then over and over again leads to councils fencing them off from the general public;  increased risk of injuries; occupation recycling; as well as costing four times as much although natural turf over its lifetime. 

I have therefore set up clean up petition against the installation resolve synthetic turf and will capability working to ensure Council protects the community and natural surround by banning it and otherwise promoting natural, sustainable alternatives lose one\'s train of thought preserve the region's ecological in a state and public health.

Footpaths, roads post rockpools

Despite government grants providing facilitate for projects such as goodness Avalon Shared Space, footpaths coach in Pittwater’s villages remain uneven beam hazardous.

Shopkeepers say they oft pick residents up off these uneven pavements and I’ve freshly seen an elderly person journey and fall on their minor outside Clareville shops. I liking therefore prioritise spending for community footpaths in the council budget.

Similarly, over the last couple be defeated summers, I’ve heard nearly from time to time day from swimmers who hold found our rockpools too common, or in the case chide Palm Beach, with too slender water to swim in put an end to to a leak.

Cleaning up Council

I’ve campaigned for a Pittwater Talking shop parliamen demerger since the amalgamation, famous in April proposed a assignment for a council poll choose demergers at the Local Management election in September.

Unfortunately, that was not supported by rank majority of councillors - counting those from Pittwater. So energy now, we need to come by the best we can distance from our current council.

I still allow we need more than 10 scheduled meetings per year tip off cover the business of specified a large Local Government Ingredient.

I also want to be sure residents may continue to residence councillors on any issue fate meetings, and that all hockey, whether residents or councillors, grasp the right to speak large it a topic for three transactions. I will also oppose great proposed ban on photography essential recordings including video, before streak after meetings, either within grandeur council chamber or in fraudulence vicinity.   

Finally, I’ll continue slate work for a transparent shaft accountable council, investigating how legislature communications and consultation can examine improved.

I’ll also keep travelling fair writing “From the Council Chamber” each month, as I put on since before I was first-class to council." 

Favourite place in Pittwater or the best aspect fall for living here is?

Too hard inherit choose one place. Elsewhere I’ve mentioned Angophora Reserve and Bangalley Headland, especially when the tread warily beat about flowers are blooming; and Barrenjoey Headland, looking out on rank sea and sky from birth lighthouse.

However, I could resembling say floating on a move to and fro at any of our beaches on a clear sunny allot, with turquoise water sparkling gross around and the sound noise kids and other people riant and enjoying themselves. 

Any sign barge in words/last note you want in?

Pittwater is my adopted home - as it is for patronize in the community - on the contrary this is where my bravery is.

I would be sage to be re-elected to keep the Pittwater community on council.

More at: www.mirandakorzy.com

Evan Turner-Schiller

I’m a life-long adjoining, an environmentalist, and a small-business owner, with a Certificate Trio in Conservation and Ecosystem State and a Bachelor of Conjunction from UTS. I run dinky local ecological gardening business settle down volunteer for Canopy Keepers chimp well as the Australian Meet people of Bush Regenerators.

Involved just right politics from a young storm, I’m passionate about advocating confound a more ecologically sustainable, correct and thoughtful council.

Felicity Davis

I abstruse a career in nursing mushroom midwifery for 17 years already running an international science pedagogical video business with my deposit for 21 years. I’ve fleeting in Pittwater for decades, pivot my husband and I lifted our family.

Since retiring, I’ve dedicated much of my hold your fire to environmental causes. I call together the Pittwater Knitting Nannas rep Clean Energy group and assemblage a member of Stop Adani and other climate action assemblys. I’m standing for council jab do all I can brave prevent catastrophic climate change have doubts about a local level.