Dr Heena Sinha Cheung outside Box Hill Town Hall
2026 · INDEPENDENT

A Strong Voice. A Fairer Box Hill.

Dr Heena Sinha Cheung

Independent Candidate · Box Hill

Box Hill deserves integrity, climate action, and a community where every person is safe.

A Record of Leadership and Advocacy

  • Women's Economic Forum

    2025 Woman of the Year — Women's Economic Forum

  • AusMumpreneurWoman Changing the World award

    Gold: Woman Changing the World — AusMumpreneur · Runner-up Advocacy Impact — Women Changing the World Awards, Paris 2026

  • 40 Under 40

    40 Under 40 Leader (2024)

  • Dr. Heena Sinha Cheung speaking as an NGO Delegate at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.Dr. Heena Sinha Cheung speaking as an NGO Delegate at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

    NGO Delegate at the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, New York 2026

Why it matters

Three local fights. One independent voice.

01

Climate Action for a Cooler Box Hill

Box Hill is heating up — literally. Urban heat is worst in our most built-up streets, yet the major parties keep approving high-density development with no green canopy requirements, no cooling infrastructure, and no accountability. I'm fighting for tree canopy targets, cool street design, and a heat response plan that protects our most vulnerable residents.

Read my Climate Plan
02

Integrity & Restoring Community Power

The major parties have handed local decision-making to developers and stripped funding from the community infrastructure our residents actually use. I'm fighting to restore transparency, protect our essential community hubs — including our Neighbourhood Houses — from political whims and funding cuts, and return real power to the people of Box Hill.

Read my plan to save our local community hubs
03

Safety, Respect & Social Connection

Box Hill should be the safest place in Victoria to live and work. I am committed to the full implementation of the Set the Standard report and Respect@Work recommendations. Locally, that means securing permanent funding for women-led community spaces that provide crisis support and connection — because safety starts in the community, not just the courts.

Read my Gender Equality Plan

The plan for Box Hill

Six priorities. Built around you.

01

Fairer Cost of Living

Stamp-duty reform, end hidden school fees, Medicare Urgent Care for Box Hill, multicultural community infrastructure.

RELIEF THAT WORKS

02

Safer, Stronger Communities

Save Neighbourhood Houses, smarter policing, real protection for children, health-led responses to homelessness.

SMARTER SAFETY · REAL PROTECTION

03

Accountable Development & Integrity

Buy the Brickworks, end ministerial bypasses, full SRL transparency, continuous community accountability.

PUBLIC VALUE · LOCAL VOICE

04

Climate-Smart, Lower Bills

Home energy upgrades, community batteries, EV infrastructure, practical transport relief for those who need it most.

LOWER BILLS · SMARTER GROWTH

05

Our Community Heart

Save Box Hill's Neighbourhood Houses — Clota Cottage, Box Hill South and Kerrimuir. Restore the 25% core funding increase. Protect them in planning law. Pilot a Women's Connection Hub.

COMMUNITY HUBS · WOMEN-LED

06

First Nations Justice, Treaty & Self-Determination

Support for Treaty, truth-telling, justice reinvestment, and stronger funding for Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations.

TRUTH · TREATY · JUSTICE

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hectares of Brickworks land at stake

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Neighbourhood House funding gap

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Whitehorse Community Houses in our alliance

$0.0M

annual statewide funding shortfall

"Independent voices, rooted in community, putting people and local voices before party politics — that is what Box Hill has always deserved."
Ivy Weber · Launched the first independent campaign from Box Hill Town Hall, 1937

Box Hill deserves an Independent voice. Join Heena's fight.

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