Education:
-Change Asquith into two campuses of co-educational schooling. Asquith Boys to be 7-9 Co-ed Campuses with Asquith Girls to be 10-12 campuses. Upgrade to replace aging buildings and expand schools to cater for the district including residents for Berowra northwards. Review into an elevated walkway crossing over the Pacific Highway at Asquith for pedestrian safety of all school children.
-Align the Year 10 School Certificate closer to Vocational Courses such as the Certificate II in IT, Retail, Hospitality, and Business to assist early school leavers in moving to their careers sooner post year 10.
-Continue funding for fee-free courses for Youth under 25 and to extend this to those in Year 7. Funding for more Summer courses for students to complete during the school summer break.
-Seniors courses to be delivered in partnership with local Community Colleges at Galston and Cherrybrook High Schools for ease of access
Emergency Services:
-reintroduce mental health support for all to stop the mass exodus of professionals. Did you know over 1000 police have resigned this month alone? This is thanks to Labor’s recent policy change. How can you feel safe in times of emergency?
Environment:
-introduce funding and support for bush-care groups to help manage sensitive and local environments in our electorate including both National Parks
-end the poisons being used for Fire-Ant control that is also killing and affecting other animals with unintended consequences. This includes ending the 1080 fox baiting poison in our local National Parks
Food Industry:
-All seafood being served in NSW to be labelled with point of origin (eg Australia or some overseas country). This will aid in supporting the local industry and given customers greater confidence in knowing where their food is coming from.
Gambling:
-Freeze poker machine licenses at current numbers.
-Increase spin cycle time to minimum 5 seconds on each machine.
-Limit patrons to 6 hours on machines a day.
-Removal of all gambling advertising on NSW Government entities (Eg Tangara trains).
Housing:
-10% Affordable Housing targets on all new State Developments. This includes the State land in Hornsby as part of the TOD and the Cherrybrook Metro Precincts.
-Expand the 3D House Printing Trials in Dubbo to across the State to ease development times for new houses
-First Home Buyers Grant to be extended to new Granny Flats and Tiny Homes to ease burden of purchasing new style of housing.
-Lower the housing targets being imposed on Hornsby Shire to ensure character of each Hamlet is preserved. I do not support the 8000 residents planned for the Cherrybrook Metro sight nor the current zoned plan for Berowra which will increase fire risk for Berowra Residents with only one road access.
-Restriction of foreign individuals to one investment property to help ease overheating in the market.
Public Facilities:
-Upgrade Foxglove Oval to include covered seating stadium for use in all weather.
-Covering of Basketball Courts at Mt Kuring-Gai Public School and Cherrybrook to allow all weather access for the school and the local community.
-Improved Community Fire Fighting equipment and access for residents.
Transport & Commuter Infrastructure:
-Expand Commuter Carparks at Hornsby, Berowra and Cherrybrook to include more disabled parking.
-Bicycle Lockers to be available at all stations in Hornsby Electorate to encourage active transport. This includes bicycle pump and water stations at each train station.
-Completion of the Cherrybrook bicycle network to link the suburb to the Metro Station Precinct
-Extend weekend train services from Berowra to service Cowan and Brooklyn.
-Upgrade Galston Road for Right-Hand Turn lanes at Cawthorne, Montview and Sydney Roads.
-Extend Bicycle Lanes on Galston Road & on Ku-ring-Gai Chase Roads for bicycle safety and easing traffic.
-Fight for New Line Road upgrade to actually proceed.
-Upgrade Wylds Road Intersections for proper right hand-turn lands and pedestrian crossing facilities.
-Commence planning for widening Old Northern Road up to Galston Road Intersection
-Extend & increase frequency of bus routes in Dural, Galston and Cherrybrook
Voting:
-Allowing voluntary voting for those aged 16 and 17. With elections being held every 4 years, some don’t get to vote for the first time until they’re almost 21!
-To explore options for those travelling to vote. With people travelling again and a very short time to pre-poll, there needs to be better options such as in person overseas voting in key locations around the world and expansion of tele-vote services.
-Expand the savings provisions to ensure as many votes can count and minimise the informal rate. This would be based on the South Australian example.
-Introduce ‘Robson Rotation’ that is used in Tasmania and ACT to ensure farer distribution on ballots to remove the effects of donkey voting giving advantage to top spot.