Cat Rose
Darebin
North West Ward
I’m a Reservoir local who works as a nurse in Melbourne’s busy public hospital system.
I’m running as a Victorian Socialists candidate in our council by-election because I’m sick of seeing inequality grow while essential services get worse.
I know how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people in our community. And as a nurse, I see first hand the importance of high-quality public services and the damage the neoliberal agenda of cuts and privatisation has done.
I want to see Darebin Council provide the services we need for healthy and happy lives. Our council should serve our whole community, not just spend council rates south of Bell Street while Reservoir is starved of services. So I will fight for the expansion of the Reservoir Leisure Centre and for publicly-run childcare and aged care services in our community. And I will stand up for environmental protections for Edwardes Lake and Edgars Creek.
I’m a long-time community activist and organiser. I spent many years as a leader in the fight for marriage equality in Australia. More recently I’ve been part of the campaign to save the Preston Market and the movement against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
If elected as a councillor in Darebin, I’ll fight for:
- Real action to reduce housing costs
- Expand green space and active transport links
- Development for human need, not private profit
- Revitalise the Reservoir Leisure Centre
- No more sell-offs of council assets
- A council that takes a stand for local and global social justice & sustainability
- Protect Preston Market
- No new Pokie licenses
- Environmental protections for Edwardes Lake and Edgars Creek
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