I'm Conroy
I'm a Young Person, a lifelong Canterbury resident and your local advocate on Canterbury-Bankstown Council.
Canterbury is a place where working people, and families build strong communities together. The area provides spaces for vibrant communities no matter your passion, from Rugby League at Belmore Oval, Ice Skating at Canterbury Rink, and our huge community driven football and cricket clubs, to our walks and plantings along our river and regional park, to vibrant food in Campsie and Lakemba.
But right now, too many people in our community feel like they’re being left behind. While families are being squeezed at the supermarket checkout, hit with rising tolls, rents and bills, Labor has chosen to govern for their mates in big corporations.
Their friends in the property development industry have been handed lucrative opportunities across our electorate. Entire suburbs have been upzoned not through careful, place-based planning, but by drawing circles on a map and carving up our community for profit. At the same time, Labor has attempted and often succeeded in selling off public housing estates for private benefit, from Riverwood to Waterloo, and public land from the Wolli Bluff in Earlwood, to Peace Park in Ashbury.
And instead of fixing the cost of living crisis, Labor have tried to divide communities and distract people from their failures.
Labor are now engaged in a race to the bottom when it comes to attacking and undermining migrant communities, particularly Muslims. They have repeatedly defended police crackdowns against ordinary Australians - including Muslims, women and disabled people for daring to speak out against genocide, including right here in Belmore.
But I have a plan for Canterbury that is built for the people that live here - not the corporations.
This plan is about creating a Canterbury that works for the people who live here. A community where housing is affordable, where families can get ahead instead of falling behind, where the Cooks River is restored and protected for everyone to enjoy, and where teachers, and healthcare workers are paid what they deserve so our public services are strong and reliable for all.
On council I’ve been a strong voice for our communities future, and that’s why we have created a plan for:
- Restoring and naturalising our Cooks River
- Fixing our public services, including by paying teachers, healthcare workers, and early childhood educators what they are worth
- Building public housing, and protecting renter rights
- Protecting our right to protest
This election, our community needs to unite against division and take back power. Labor gave the developers, climate criminals and lobbyists their turn. Now it’s time to show the strength of grassroots people power.
