Public value. Local voice. Real transparency.

Decision after decision affecting Box Hill — the Brickworks, the Suburban Rail Loop precinct, ministerial call-ins on activity-centre rezoning — has been made with limited public visibility, limited published reasoning, and limited recourse for affected residents. That isn't an emergency. It's becoming the default.

Seven hectares of historic Box Hill land — heritage-listed, contaminated, and currently slated for a wall of 10-storey towers. In October 2025, Whitehorse Council resolved to support public acquisition of the site. The state hasn't.

• Fund acquisition and remediation as a state-led project, with federal co-funding sought.
• Independent contamination testing, fully published — before any zoning or sale decision.
• Heritage protection of the surviving brickworks structures.

Read the full local-fight page: Save the Brickworks →

A legislated 90-day binding community consultation window on every state-significant planning decision in Box Hill — with full restoration of third-party appeal rights, and mandatory written reasons published for every ministerial call-in or override.

The Suburban Rail Loop is the largest infrastructure project in Victoria's history, and the project most central to Box Hill's near future. Box Hill residents are entitled to see — in plain language — what it costs, when it arrives, and what risks remain.

• Quarterly public reporting on cost, timeline and major risks.
• An independent review function with statutory power to publish findings.
• Plain-language community impact statements for every precinct decision.

Where credible concerns arise about systemic failure — in planning, in procurement, in the conduct of major projects — the response should be escalation to the highest level of independent investigation, including a Royal Commission framing where the evidence supports it. That is the appropriate venue for serious findings: not press conferences, not partisan attack lines.

Most of the friction Box Hill residents experience with government isn't ideological — it's operational. The plan attacks that friction directly.

• Single sign-on across state services — same login, same record, fewer forms.
• Published service-level commitments and response-time targets.
• Plain-English defaults across every public-facing letter, form and portal.

• Regular public forums in Box Hill — quarterly, in person and online.
• Published feedback channels with response-time commitments.
• An annual public report on every commitment in this plan — what's done, what's behind, why.
• All voting and public statements published in a single, searchable archive.