For almost 20 years I have worked hard to contribute and belong to this community which I love. Living here has provided my wife, Erica, and me with a safe and secure environment in which to bring up our two boys. 

I am standing as an independent candidate for the electorate of East Hills at the NSW election to be held on Saturday 25th March because I believe both major parties have stopped listening to us and are more concerned with doing favors for their mates. 

Bankstown Airport is being transformed into a massive freight and warehouse complex. The University of Western Sydney Milperra Campus is being sold off for a gated housing estate. Thousands of trees at the old East Hills Golf Club / Riverlands are to be sacrificed for yet another housing estate. East Hills to Padstow is under threat from plans to double the population to 60,000 and raze our suburbs for 13,250 flats in high rise up to 12 stories. 

Canterbury Bankstown Council and the NSW Government have colluded to demolish Panania library and sell off Ray McCormack Reserve in Revesby and replace them with 6 storey tower blocks. Carl Little Reserve in which Padstow library is located has been rezoned for a cluster of 8 storey apartments. Duplexes continue to be approved at an ever increasing rate turning our streets into construction sites, causing traffic chaos. 

Our right to say no to out of control overdevelopment is being trampled on. I feel it is time for me to stand up for our way of life and help make our suburbs a better place both now and into the future.

My first experience with the area I now call home was studying bush regeneration at Padstow TAFE in 1992/93 while completing a Bachelor of Science majoring in Ecology at the University of New South Wales.

I love my country. Over a 30 year career as a restoration ecologist I have been lucky enough to work in bushland through-out the Blue Mountains and metropolitan Sydney. I even worked at Waratah Park in Duffys Forest where Skippy was filmed and yes the Rangers Station is still there. Australia is a land of dramatic landscapes, a rich indigenous and non-indigenous heritage and unique plants and animals. As a nation we have much to celebrate.

In recent years I have become increasing concerned about a number of overdevelopment proposals which threaten our peaceful way of life.