the campaign trail - 6 oct

I'm running in the upcoming state election in the upper house seat of Eastern Metropolitan. It's been another busy week on the campaign trail. This week includes updates on:
 
- Greens want the abolition of puppy farms
- Greens petition to abolish puppy farms, click here to sign
- Greens support the Animals Matter to Me rally
- Brewis Atkinson - Forest Hill gets great reception at Environment Forum for Greens policies on renewables and environment
- Maroondah Knox Greens phonebanking success
- Monash transport forum coming up on 8 Oct
-Save Money Save Solar community forum coming up - more info here
- The Pipe Track (Forest Hill and Ringwood), accelerating the construction of the Principal Bicycle Network
-World Farm Animals Day: Greens call for law reform
- Join us for the Eastern Metro Day of Action, more info here

Vote for The Greens, you can count on us to
End Duck Shooting
Ban Jumps Racing
Abolish Puppy Farms

You can keep up to date with campaign news on:

facebook - Samantha Dunn EasternMetropolitan
  or
twitter - @greens4eastmet 

to volunteer or donate

web - Samantha Dunn, Candidate for Eastern Metropolitan

the campaign trail - 1 sep

I'm running in the upcoming state election in the upper house seat of Eastern Metropolitan. It's been another busy week on the campaign trail. This week includes updates on:

 

• Time for a corruption regulator with some teeth?
• Jumps Racing petition
• Tree Planting with Steve Raymond, Candidate for Ferntree Gully
• Manningham Greens launch Warrandyte and Bulleen campaigns
• Restoring Victoria's Renewable Energy Target
• Forest Hill Candidates under spotlight at Transport Forum - news here
• The Maroondah Knox Green team meets, including candidates for Croydon, FTG, Ringwood, Bayswater and Eastern Met support.

 

You can keep up to date with campaign news on:

 facebook - Samantha Dunn EasternMetropolitanortwitter - @greens4eastmet 

to volunteer or donate

web - Samantha Dunn, Candidate for Eastern Metropolitan

the campaign trail - 18 aug

I'm running in the upcoming state election in the upper house seat of Eastern Metropolitan. It's been another busy week on the campaign trail. This week includes updates on:

• Whitehorse MTF Transport Forum coming up
• Campaigning for a Fair Go for Firefighters in Park Orchards
• Murphy vs EastWest Link
• Supporting the Equal Love rally
• Banyule MTF Transport Forum, Greens Ivanhoe candidate Paul Kennedy speaks
• Candidate for Croydon, Jill Wild campaigns downtown
• Cocktail Party invitation to the launch of Bulleen and Warrandyte campaigns

You can keep up to date with campaign news on:

facebook - Samantha Dunn EasternMetropolitan

or
twitter - @greens4eastmet

to volunteer or donate

web - Samantha Dunn, Candidate for Eastern Metropolitan

public transport neglect

to read on click here.

etc public transport forum

Click on the image for more info or visit the Eastern Transport Coalition's webpage.

public transport in the east - summit

I'm the Yarra Ranges Councillor representative on the Eastern Transport Coalition (ETC), the ETC advocates for sustainable and integrated transport services in the Eastern region of Melbourne which focuses on the travel needs of the community and reduces the level of car dependency.

The ETC are holding a major public transport summit on the 4th of July to discuss what changes we need to accommodate for the increase in public transport patronage in our area, now and in the future.

The summit will feature keynote speaker Professor Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University. Professor Newman is a renowned West Australian academic and planner who is credited with coining the term ‘automobile dependence’ — an expression describing the creation of cities reliant on cars.

The Summit will also hear from Professor Graham Currie, Monash University Chair of Public Transport and Peter Daly, Chief Engineer from the RACV.

The Summit is an opportunity to highlight the Eastern Suburb's basic requirements of a transport plan for our region. If you're interested in improving public transport in Yarra Ranges you should come along and if you can't make it you can still send in your ideas (to: info@etc.org.au).

There is no doubt that Yarra Ranges needs better public transport, the summit is our plan for the future.

Details
Friday 4 July, 8:30am to 11am
Manningham City Council,
Doncaster Road, Doncaster
To RSVP to the summit by Friday 27 June contact Melissa Sparrow
e-mail: melissa.sparrow@knox.vic.gov.au or phone 9298 8126

report from the round table 8/4

Thought I'd start a new regular entry in my blog about council meetings, this week I'm going to focus on a section of our meetings called reports from delegates (this is a section where councillors report back on their activities for the last two weeks), read on to find out more....

SELBY CFA - 2nd April

I had the great pleasure of presiding over the elections at the Selby CFA AGM. This year saw the longstanding Captain of the brigade, Neville Oldham, retire. Neville was Captain for 14 years, a record at Selby CFA. The strength and cohesiveness of the brigade is a great credit to his leadership over the years.

It was great to see two women contesting the position of Captain, Sandra Jenkins won on the night, my congratulations to Sandra, I look forward to working with Sandra in the future.

MAV SEAG - 3rd April

Also known as the Municipal Association of Victoria Strategic Environment Advisory Group. I attended a meeting of this group whose role it is to discuss a range of issues in relation to local government and the environment.

Of particular note was a presentation by Associate Professor Brian Finlayson who presented detailed information on the impact of logging in Melbourne's water catchments. The information confirmed Yarra Ranges stance to opppose logging in our catchments. There is no doubt that logging effects water yield - dramatically.

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VLGA Forum - 3rd April

Also known as the Victorian Local Government Association. I attended a forum focussing on logging in Melbourne's water catchments. This issue is really gaining traction in the local government sector - read my last blog entry for more info on this one.

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Leader Newspaper Public Transport Forum - 7th April

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I attended a forum for a campaign Leader Newspaper is running to improve public transport in the Upper Yarra corridor.

Many of the issues faced by the Upper Yarra community are very similar to those in the Dandenong Ranges who do not live close to Belgrave station. It is very clear what our community needs is a well connected and frequent public transport service, this is critical to address social isolation, climate change and peak oil. Lets hope those in power are listening.

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North South Pipeline Hearings - 8th April

The panel hearings are currently underway in Yering (Yarra Valley) in relation to the Project Impact Statement (PIA) for the North South (Sugarloaf Interconnector) Pipeline. There are so many concerns in relation to this project it's difficult to know where to start (I've done a separate blog entry with more info). I attended the Shire presentation on Tuesday 8th April where the staff did a great job detailing our concerns.