Councillor
Monash City Council,
Oakleigh Ward
Upcoming neighbourhood meetings:
Josh is the first ever Greens Councillor to serve the City of Monash.
Josh holds monthly neighbourhood meetings, which all community members are welcome to attend. These meetings provide the opportunity for residents and ratepayers to drop in, say hello, or raise an issue.
Outside of his duties as a Councillor, Josh is the Chief Executive Officer of the charity Kevin Heinze GROW and a sessional academic at the University of Melbourne. Josh has extensive experience in a broad range of areas including child, youth, and family welfare, public health, mental health, disability, international development, education, and community broadcasting.
Born and raised in Monash, Josh has also lived in London while working on development of the National Health Service with local groups including the Haredi and Afro-Carribean communities, and in Nepal while working with local women and children.
Josh comes from a fostering family and is a former President of the Foster Care Association of Victoria. He is passionate about creating and maintaining a safe and nurturing environment for all children and young people, education, social justice, and human rights.
A PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, Josh holds a Master's Degree in Social Work, and Bachelor's Degrees in Arts and Teaching.
Josh would like to acknowledge the traditional owners in Monash, and pay his respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.
Featured News
Featured News
The results are in! 20,000 homes in Oakleigh Ward and beyond have had the opportunity to respond, and it's been wonderful hearing from so many of you. I'll make it my mission to respond to your feedback in 2018.
Monash Council will introduce a night-time cat curfew with residents given three years to prepare for the changes.
Today's Monash Leader has documented some of my recent comments on community consultation for our new Waste Strategy.
From Crikey: "Monash City Council has (sort of ) declared support for marriage equality -- so why won't councillors even discuss putting up some rainbow lights?"
Council is considering a proposal to set the Meeting Procedures Local Law, which will govern the way we conduct our meetings for up to ten years.
You can view the draft and provide feedback here.
"Reflecting the views of local communities and advocating their views to other levels of government is actually the fundamental role of local government"
It's not all roads, rates and rubbish.
Contact Josh
Contact Josh
Congratulations to the Neighbours for Public Green Space on their continued advocacy for their community.