Local councils interact with communities more directly than any other level of government. They manage vital community assets like parks, bushland and active transport infrastructure, recycling and disposing of waste, water usage, and town planning and development controls. The decisions councils make have a huge bearing on the ecological sustainability of NSW. 

Our next council election is coming up soon on Saturday, 14 September 2024.

Our policy platform - Clean, Green and Local: Priorities for nature and climate in the 2024 local government elections - consists of a wide range of policy commitments that candidates contesting the upcoming elections can champion and enact if elected. 

The campaign and policy platform for supporters is available here, and the concise policy platform for candidates is available here.

If you are a candidate contesting this election, please endorse the policy platform here.

Contact your candidates now

We are calling on everyone in NSW to contact your local candidates (contact details found here) and ask them to endorse the policy platform here.

If hundreds of us contact our candidates, we can get these important policies in front of many potential champions on these issues who may end up as councillors. With not long until election day – it's time to get to work.

Candidates who have endorsed the platform