Hi, I'm Sally. I'm running as your Greens candidate for Gaven in the State election because I'm passionate about protecting our precious places and improving everyone's quality of life.

I grew up on the Gold Coast Hinterland and have a deep love for our magnificent area, with its unique climate and rich biodiversity. I have campaigned to preserve Australia's vanishing natural heritage and to protect animal rights, and will work to ensure the koala, our Queensland emblem, survives.

If we build our economy on the principles of long-term sustainability and science – rather than short-term self-interest and political point-scoring – we can protect both our regional ecosystems and have a prosperous economy.

I will work to reduce the threats of climate change to the Gold Coast and to ensure that all Queenslanders have access to affordable electricity, powered by renewable energy.

Our local public schools need additional funding so that they don't cost families so much money. In a rapidly changing world, TAFE should be free and never privatised. Everyone should be able to afford to retrain and have a better life.

I want to live in a Queensland where ordinary people can realise the dream of owning their own home through affordable housing, where renters are treated fairly, and where no-one has to endure prolonged homelessness. Property developers should not be able to build without cohesive, publicly owned infrastructure to make sure our communities thrive. We all benefit when the needs of the community are put before developer greed.

I'll work for a fair go for those struggling with housing affordability and rising costs. It’s time that mining corporations and big banks paid their fair share. The Greens will make them and use that money to build 100,000 public homes, fully fund schools and free childcare, hospitals and essential services. 

We’ll freeze rents and cap increases and make groceries cheaper by breaking up the duopoly power of Coles and Woolies and stopping corporate price gouging for essentials.

I want to live in a Queensland where politicians are committed to social and environmental justice and are independent in their actions and decisions – free from the corrosive influence of political donations from big business such as property developers and mining companies. Unlike Labor and the LNP, the Greens don’t take corporate donations, so I’ll represent you - not vested interests.

As your Greens representative, I will work tirelessly for the people of Gaven to ensure everyone can have a good life and no one is left behind. Will you join me?