Cleaner energy. Lower bills. A fair transition for everyone.

Victoria's transition to cleaner energy is already underway. I support keeping that transition moving while making sure its benefits reach everyone — including renters, apartment residents, lower-income households and people who cannot simply put solar panels and a battery on their own roof.

My approach is practical: listen to the evidence, work with communities and experts, and focus on solutions that reduce both emissions and household costs.

I support continued investment in renewable generation, storage and the electricity infrastructure needed as Victoria's ageing coal-fired generation retires.

Major infrastructure must be planned transparently, based on evidence and developed through genuine consultation with affected communities, landholders and Traditional Owners.

Efficient electric heating and cooling, hot water, appliances, solar and batteries can reduce household dependence on fossil fuels and help lower energy costs.

I support helping households make that transition, with greater assistance for people who would otherwise struggle with the upfront cost.

A Box Hill Home Energy Upgrade Program — zero-interest loans and stacked rebates for renters, owner-occupiers, and body-corporate apartments — targeted at the older Box Hill housing stock that bleeds the most heat in winter and absorbs the most in summer.

• Insulation, draught-sealing, efficient heating and cooling, hot-water electrification.
• 2.6 million Victorians now get 3 hours of free midday power daily. The upgrade program will include smart controls and appliance guidance so Box Hill households — especially home-based workers and small businesses — capture that value in full.

The benefits of clean energy shouldn't depend on whether you own a detached house with a suitable roof.

I support removing practical barriers that prevent renters and apartment residents from accessing energy-efficiency upgrades, electrification, renewable energy and storage.

That includes improving access to existing programs and examining reforms that make upgrades easier in rental properties and owners corporations.

This is particularly important because Environment Victoria has identified outdated rules, complex processes and weak landlord incentives as barriers preventing renters and apartment residents from accessing clean-energy benefits.

• Renter-eligible upgrades, with landlord protections built in.
• A Shared Solar Dividend for strata buildings — community solar and battery access that reduces communal levies and increases property values. Box Hill is a vertical suburb. Its energy plan has to match its skyline.

Community batteries are already part of my plan.

Pilot 3–5 neighbourhood batteries on suitable Council and school sites across Box Hill — explicitly designed for renters and apartment dwellers who can't put solar on their own roof.

I also want to investigate local shared-energy pilots that could allow people who cannot install their own rooftop solar or battery to participate in the benefits of renewable energy.

That could include examining suitable public or community sites for shared solar and storage, subject to technical feasibility, safety, governance, grid requirements, funding and community consultation.

Community storage is also an established policy approach advocated by Environment Victoria as a way of extending renewable-energy benefits to renters, apartment residents and lower-income households.

Rather than announcing a model before doing the work, my approach is simple:

Pilot it. Measure it. Improve it. Scale what works.

• Open access regardless of tenure.
• Transparent community ownership models and revenue-sharing.
• Co-designed with the local houses and EV / energy community groups already doing the work.

Financial support doesn't help if people don't know it exists or can't understand how to access it.

Energy rebates, upgrades and electrification programs should be communicated in clear, practical and multilingual formats, working with trusted community organisations to reach people who may otherwise miss out.

Language should never become another barrier to lowering a household's energy bills.

I support Victoria's transition towards efficient all-electric homes and buildings and reducing dependence on fossil gas.

For existing households, that transition needs to be practical and fair. People facing significant upfront costs should be supported rather than left behind.

• A Gas-Free Commercial Zone pathway for Box Hill's dining precinct — supporting local restaurants and cafés to switch to high-efficiency electric kitchens through staged, interest-free upgrade funding. Cleaner air, lower running costs, safer kitchens.

A standing partnership between Whitehorse Council, Environment Victoria, Eastern Climate Action Melbourne, Lighter Footprints and our local neighbourhood houses — to coordinate electrification advice, group-buy purchasing, and on-the-ground support for Box Hill households making the switch.

Box Hill's multicultural community is among the most energy bill-stressed in Victoria — and consistently among the last to access rebates and upgrade programs. We're working with Environment Victoria to ensure Hub outreach runs in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese. No family should pay a “Linguistic Tax” on their power bill.

Proposals to impose a 2km buffer on wind energy would eliminate an estimated $2 billion in renewable investment — forcing Victoria to fill the gap with peak gas, which costs four times more per unit than wind. Every day Box Hill households remain tethered to global gas markets is a day their bills are set overseas — not here. Energy sovereignty isn't just an environmental argument. It's a budget argument.

• Free public transport for under-18s.
• Off-peak fare relief for Health Care Card holders, pensioners, people with disability, carers, and asylum seekers.
• Apprentice, TAFE and jobseeker fare subsidies tied to active enrolment or job-search status.
• Restored frequency on local bus routes feeding into Box Hill Station.

I will continue to support community battery solutions and practical expansion of EV charging infrastructure as demand grows.

These investments should be designed around how people actually live — including renters, apartment residents and households without private charging facilities.

• Fast-charging hubs at Box Hill Central, Box Hill Hospital and major sports facilities.
• Kerbside charging across Box Hill's residential streets, prioritised by community survey.
• Council car-park charging rolled out as standard, not bespoke.

Climate policy isn't only about how electricity is generated.

It's also about preparing our neighbourhoods for extreme heat, fires, floods and other climate risks; protecting biodiversity and tree canopy; creating healthier streets and public spaces; and ensuring new development contributes to community resilience.

Locally, this connects with my commitment to Save Box Hill Brickworks for Parkland, subject to rigorous contamination assessment and safe remediation, as well as my plans for better public transport and connected walking and cycling infrastructure.

• Open space protected as a planning condition, not a planning afterthought.
• Tree canopy retention and replacement targets written into precinct planning.
• SRL precinct accountability — specific, published green-infrastructure obligations on every developer.

I support strong protection for Victoria's native forests, biodiversity, waterways and ecosystems.

Environmental protection should be based on evidence, transparent regulation and meaningful involvement of Traditional Owners in caring for Country.

My background in health shapes how I approach climate policy.

Extreme heat, air pollution, poor-quality housing, energy poverty and climate-related disasters all have consequences for people's physical and mental health.

Climate disasters can also compound existing social vulnerabilities, including risks faced by women and children — something addressed further in my Safer, Stronger Communities plan.

That is why I see climate action as environmental policy, public-health policy and prevention policy.

As an Independent, I won't pretend that good climate policy begins with politicians.

Scientists, energy experts, environmental organisations, Traditional Owners and communities have spent years developing and advocating for solutions.

My job is to listen to that evidence, scrutinise proposals, work constructively across Parliament and advocate for solutions that deliver measurable benefits for our community.

I support the direction of proposals to expand access to clean-energy upgrades for renters, apartment residents and lower-income households. Where advocates propose specific funding amounts, I will assess those proposals on their evidence and merits rather than promise expenditure that an individual Independent cannot unilaterally deliver.

Why this is more than climate policy.

Every measure on this page does at least one of four things at the same time: it cuts a household bill, it improves a health outcome, it builds out infrastructure Box Hill needs anyway, or it strengthens community capacity. Climate action that fails the bill test, the health test, the infrastructure test and the community test isn't on this page.

• The SEC is already here. Box Hill Hospital and local schools are being powered by State Electricity Commission renewable energy — saving taxpayer money that flows back into nurses, teachers, and services. Expanding this model insulates the public budget from global energy volatility.
• Debt reduction through energy. Moving Box Hill households off gas locks in savings that don't fluctuate with international commodity markets. It's the most durable form of cost-of-living relief available.