Local fights
Climate action, integrity, and safety aren't abstract values — they're decided street by street. These three fights are where Box Hill's future is being settled right now: protecting green space from over-development, restoring honest community-led decision-making, and funding the spaces that keep people connected and safe.
Local Fight 01
Box Hill is heating up — and the local front line is the Brickworks. Seven hectares of historic, heritage-listed land slated for 10-storey towers. Buy it back, remediate it, and turn it into the parkland and green canopy our most built-up streets need.
Read the full fightof green space at stake
Local Fight 02
Major parties have handed local decision-making to developers through ministerial bypasses, SRL precinct overrides and facilitated rezoning. Codify a 90-day binding community consultation in law and return real power to the people of Box Hill.
Read the full fightbinding consultation, in law
Local Fight 03
Safety starts in the community, not just the courts. Our Neighbourhood Houses are where women-led support, connection and crisis response actually happen — yet they face a 25% real funding gap across the Whitehorse alliance. Close it.
Read the full fightreal funding gap
