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Josh Fergeus


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Josh Fergeus


We’re working to make Monash as fair and inclusive as it can be, delivering open and transparent local government.

Councillor Dr Josh Fergeus

Monash City Council,
Oakleigh Ward

Current Council Appointments

VICe president - VIctorian Local Governance Association

Chair - Clayton Activity Centre Committee

member - executive committee, eastern alliance for greenhouse action

Member - Oakleigh Activity Centre SteerinG Committee

LIAISON- FRIENDS OF SCOTCHMAN'S CREEK AND VALLEY RESERVE

liaison - monash friends of vemasse

PREVIOUS Council Appointments

CHAIR - Eastern alliance for greenhouse action

Chair - Municipal Health & Wellbeing Plan Steering Committee

CHAIR - disability advisory committee

Co-Chair - Gender Equity Advisory Committee

co-chair - environmental advisory committee

deputy CHAIR - lgbtiq+ advisory committee

DIRECTOR - EASTERN INNOVATION BUSINESS CENTRE

CommitteE MEMBER - MONASH GALLERY OF ART COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT

Member - community safety advisory board

member - audit and risk committee

Member - Metropolitan Transport Forum

LIAISON - FRIENDS OF DAMPER CREEK

Delegate - Young Person's Reference Group

Upcoming neighbourhood meetings:

TBC

Dr Josh Fergeus is the first ever Greens Councillor to serve the City of Monash. First elected in 2016, he was re-elected to represent Oakleigh Ward in 2020 alongside Dr Anjalee de Silva (pictured) who was elected to represent Mount Waverley Ward.

Biography

Outside of his duties as a Councillor, Josh is the Chief Executive Officer of the charity Kevin Heinze GROW (KHG). KHG has operated for more than 40 years providing people in need with safe and supportive environments in which to benefit from the health and wellbeing impacts of access to nature and gardening.

Josh is a member of Victoria’s Mental Health Tribunal, assessing applications for compulsory treatment orders within the health system, and the Suitability Panel, ruling on allegations of abuse and neglect within the out-of-home care system. He is also a member of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Interim Regional Body covering South-East Metropolitan Melbourne, tasked with the redesign of the regional mental health system.

Josh is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and has extensive professional and governance experience in a range of areas including child, youth, and family welfare, public health, mental health, disability and education. He in an elected Board Director of the Victorian Local Governance Association and was elected Vice President in 2023.

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.

Josh completed his PhD thesis titled ‘The needs of foster and kinship carers and the mental health and wellbeing of children’ at Melbourne University, and holds a Master's Degree in Social Work and Bachelor's Degrees in Arts and Teaching.

The City of Monash sits on the land of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples of the Kulin Nation. This land was never ceded.

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Monash Council


Monash Council


While on Council Josh has successfully championed a range of issues including:

Zero-net emissions targets for Council

Major investment in sustainability measures, footpaths and bicycle paths

The creation of Council strategies dealing with Vegetation, Open Space and Social Inclusion

Local initiatives to #BanTheBag and other single-use plastics

Securing Council support for Makarrata

Food Organics Green Organics (FOGO) composting program and other waste initiatives

Support for renters

Council's first Affordable Housing Strategy and Social Housing Framework

Precinct plans for Huntingdale, Clayton and Mt Waverley

Support for marriage equality, the establishment of an LGBTIQA+ Advisory Committee and Action Plan

Divestment from fossil fuels

The Scotchmans Creek Skink Link Project

Creation of the first ever local government Loneliness Framework for addressing social isolation

Leading Council’s advocacy to reduce wood smoke pollution

Creating smoke-free areas in major activity centres

Transparency measures including live-streaming and archived video of Council meetings

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