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The elections for Manly Council were held
on March 27th 2004.
Balgowlah Online invited each of the candidates
to succinctly express their policies and views within 1000 characters.
The successful candidates are listed below.
Peter MACDONALD - Independent
Group - MAYOR
Barbara AIRD - Independent Group
Simon CANT - Independent Group
Pat DALEY - Liberal
Jo EVANS - Independent Group
Jean HAY - Liberal
Adele HEASMAN - Liberal
Judy LAMBERT - Greens
Richard MORRISON - Liberal
David MURPHY - Liberal
Mark NOREK - Unaligned Independent
Brad PEDERSEN - Independent Group
To contact any of
the councilors,
please click on the Manly
Council page.
 Peter
MACDONALD - Independent Group
As an Independent, I am free of vested interests and carry no baggage
into the office. Manly is at a crossroads; over development is looming,
Manly centrism reigns, the suburbs are being ignored and our amenity
is under threat. I was on the Council 1987 to 1999 and Independent
State MP for Manly 1991 to 1999. I have a history of confronting
tough issues with determination and strength. I am a strong believer
in ethics in public life and will not accept donations from developers,
or any donation over $500. My Independent team has analysed the
Stockland development and regard it as unworthy for Balgowlah. Besides
ignoring many of the Design Guidelines layed down by Council, it
is a poor shopping centre with 3% public open space, minimal pedestrian
linkages and is mainly enclosed and underground. It fails to address
the existing shops in Sydney Road. If elected Mayor, I will request
an immediate meeting with the developer, in a transparent process,
to convey these serious concerns.
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 Barbara
AIRD - Independent Group
I am committed to make council more open and accountable to the
community and particularly to address over-development, unsustainable
tourism, proliferation of late night venues and alcohol-related
problems, environmental degradation, parking, traffic and transport
problems.
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 Simon
CANT - Independent Group
I will preserve Manly's natural heritage for all of us and future
generations, improve Manly's amenities for parking, traffic, transport
and safety, and help build a community spirit.
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 Pat
DALEY - Liberal
I believe in Liberal Party values and that it is essential we maintain
quality of life in this area. As former deputy chief, police crime
prevention, security and safety will be one of my priorities.
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 Jo
EVANS - Independent Group
I have undertaken a lot of voluntary work with Youth/Young Adults
and have also been supporting an 'Independent Manly' for many years.
I will use my experience in management and my experience in Youth
work to bring a balance of amenities into the community for residents
- old and young alike. Let’s have non alcohol-based interest-oriented
facilities for youth. Let’s ensure that all central areas
have good resident facilities and not only tourist attractions.
Let’s ensure that we maintain a community feel to Manly. And
let’s manage the use of funds wisely to ensure we spend the
ratepayers’ money effectively improving their community. I
look forward to working hard for the wider Manly to achieve this.
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 Jean
HAY - Liberal
In my second term as mayor I will continue to serve Manly so that
present and future generations will enjoy the matchless environment
and lifestyle Manly has given me all my life.
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 Adele
HEASMAN - Liberal
I will continue to advocate and lobby for all ratepayers, further
improving the council's basic service delivery and over-seeing projects
such as the Tania Park management plan and the conservation of Balgowlah
Cemetery.
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 Judy
LAMBERT - Greens
Four basic Green principles - social and economic justice, peace
and disarmament, ecological sustainability, and grassroots (or participatory)
democracy - underpin The Greens policies for Manly. Key policy commitments
by The Greens include: Giving local people a voice in decisions
affecting the community. Ending developer donations to political
parties (The Greens do not accept corporate donations). Ensuring
State funding for the new Manly Hospital and improved public health
care services in the community. Making Quarantine Station part of
a North Head educational sanctuary. Ensuring that Affordable Housing
is more available in Manly, so that people can remain in their communities.
Ensuring that public transport is improved and linked with pedestrian
and cycle paths. Making Manly a Zero Waste community. Protecting
our environment. The Greens care enough to put people and the environment
before profits.
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 Richard
MORRISON - Liberal
I advocate continued intelligent use of your rates money, concentrating
on core service (roads, footpaths and rubbish collection), development
not over-development, sensible solutions for maintaining neighbourhood
amenity, and continued off-leash dog access at Sandy Bay, Tania
Park and Esplanade Park.
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 David
MURPHY - Liberal
I will work to restore Ivanhoe Park, improve and renovate The Corso,
the Manly development control plan and quality of development, continue
reforms, improve efficiency and ensure accountability and the same
set of rules for all.
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 Mark
NOREK - Independent (Norek Team)
Manly Corso cannot continue to be the only major entertainment precinct
in the municipality of Manly. It has been for the last four decades
and this is an indictment on all previous Manly Councils. Proper
planning demands the recognition of decentralisation, convenience,
improving the attractiveness of the streetscape and allowing small
business opportunities to flourish away from a single major centre.
If I and my Team are elected, we will immediately call for a study
so that we might commence the planning and the implantation of a
beautification program for Sydney Rd and Condamine Street, Balgowlah.
The possibilities of an attractive al fresco entertainment precinct,
prosperous local small business retailers and convenience for local
and near local residents, generated by the remake of the existing
Balgowlah shopping centre, cannot be ignored by the next Manly Council.
For the sake of local residents and retailers, Balgowlah must be
more than just the proposed Totem shopping centre.
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 Brad
PEDERSEN - Independent Group
I will continue to speak out against greedy and powerful developers.
I am not anti-development, but I will always insist on quality development.
I believe that reckless over-development could ruin the special
heritage values of our area, our natural environment and cause further
traffic and parking problems. On a broader level, for many years
I have campaigned to ban developer donations. To this end I tried
to get Manly Council to accept a Charter of Political Reform aimed
at preventing corruption in local government. All the Independent
councilors on Manly Council voted for the Charter. Unfortunately,
at every turn, the current (now last) Mayor stifled the
implementation of these important reforms. In clear contrast, the
Independent Mayoral candidate Dr Peter Macdonald is committed to
implementing the Charter of Political Reform immediately upon becoming
Mayor. I ask for your vote so I can continue as a councilor. But
just as importantly, I urge you to vote for Peter Macdonald for
Mayor.
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