Dr Heena Sinha Cheung
Independent Candidate · Box Hill
Box Hill deserves integrity, climate action, and a community where every person is safe.
2025 Woman of the Year — Women's Economic Forum
Gold: Woman Changing the World — AusMumpreneur · Runner-up Advocacy Impact — Women Changing the World Awards, Paris 2026
40 Under 40 Leader (2024)
NGO Delegate at the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, New York 2026
Why it matters
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 →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 →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
Stamp-duty reform, end hidden school fees, Medicare Urgent Care for Box Hill, multicultural community infrastructure.
RELIEF THAT WORKS
Save Neighbourhood Houses, smarter policing, real protection for children, health-led responses to homelessness.
SMARTER SAFETY · REAL PROTECTION
Buy the Brickworks, end ministerial bypasses, full SRL transparency, continuous community accountability.
PUBLIC VALUE · LOCAL VOICE
Home energy upgrades, community batteries, EV infrastructure, practical transport relief for those who need it most.
LOWER BILLS · SMARTER GROWTH
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
Support for Treaty, truth-telling, justice reinvestment, and stronger funding for Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations.
TRUTH · TREATY · JUSTICE
hectares of Brickworks land at stake
Neighbourhood House funding gap
Whitehorse Community Houses in our alliance
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."
Whether you can doorknock, host a conversation, donate, or simply stay informed — every action matters.
