Hi, I'm Mark!
I'm a community advocate, a Kingborough local, and someone who believes the decisions councils make shape the way people actually live.
That’s why I'm running as your Greens candidate for Kingborough Council.
Kingborough is my lifelong home. My grandparents immigrated here in the 1960s, I went through Kingston Primary, Kingston High and Hobart College. After years of saving, my wife and I built our home in Huntingfield, where we're raising our daughter. I've watched this place change over the years and I care deeply about making sure that when change comes, it protects what makes Kingborough so worth living in.
For the past four years I've been involved with the Kingborough Bicycle Advisory Committee, Landcare groups, and Streets People Love Hobart – advocating for better planning, better streets, and better connected communities. I founded the Huntingfield Landcare group, bringing together neighbours who'd never met over a shared love of their local environment. And in 2024 I appeared before the Tasmanian Parliament's Public Works Committee to argue for a pedestrian bridge as part of the Kingston Bypass project – a bridge that was eventually funded and included in the project.
That experience taught me something important: showing up, making the case, and pushing decision makers actually works. I want to do more of it from inside the council.
This election I'm focused on something that affects almost every part of daily life: how we get around. Successive governments have locked us into car dependence – and it's costing us in our health, our budgets, and our sense of community. Wide roads and car-centric design push neighbours apart; streets built for people bring them together.
I also want to see medium-density housing in our well-connected town centres – including the greenfield land in central Kingston that's been sitting empty for over six years.
Great places don't happen by accident. Let's build one together.
Hope to see you out there,
Mark
