Marc Hendrickx is a geologist and author that has lived in the Hornsby electorate for over 20 years with his wife and two teenage children. He has published on a range of issues in The Australian Newspaper, Quadrant and The Spectator magazines. He runs the Right to Climb blog, dedicated to preserving public access to places of wonder and is the President of the Save our Summits Association. His books " A Guide to Climbing Ayers Rock" and "A Guide to Climbing Mt Warning" may be purchased through Connor Court Publishing.
Marc believes the major parties have abandoned the Hornsby Electorate and residents deserve to have someone who will work for their interests rather than see the job as a stepping stone for self-interested politicians to further their own careers. Our State government has grown too big. Neither of the major parties are brave enough to take on and cut the massive back room bureaucracy that injects itself into every facet of our day to day lives. As we slash unnecessary government spending and waste, focusing on key areas of Government service delivery - Transport, Education, Health, and affordable reliable utilities (power/water/Gas) you will pay less taxes, your cost of living will improve and you will have more control over your own life, free from woke politics and agendas.
A vote for Marc will return a pragmatic, common sense member to the NSW parliament with practical real life experience determined to put you back in control of your own destiny. His geological and engineering background provide a unique combination of skills missing in a NSW parliament dominated by lawyers and major party hacks. It’s time Hornsby had a fresh face, and not another Matt Kean clone!
Doug Rennie has been a proud resident of Avalon Beach, in the seat of Pittwater on Sydney’s Northern Beaches for 16 years. Raised in a blue-collar family in Western Sydney, he worked in government corporations in the utilities sector for 17 years before branching out as an entrepreneur in the water, electricity, gas and renewables industries. For 35 years he owned and operated companies locally and nationally, employing hundreds of tradespeople and providing technical services to utilities in all states and territories.
Doug is driven by a strong desire to advance a small-government approach to the most pressing social and economic priorities of our time: housing, infrastructure, energy, environment, water, food security and health. In particular, he advocates for a more sensible energy policy that prevents a focus on “Net Zero” from destroying nature and jobs. He also believes passionately in individual liberty of choice, supported by a free market, small government, and freedom of speech.
As a believer in “Education, NOT Indoctrination”, over the past 20 years, and especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, Doug has become increasingly concerned by the deception and fear created by one-sided narratives from corporations, government, the bureaucracy, and the mainstream media. In seeking to serve the people of Pittwater, Doug champions cutting red tape and taxes. He is determined to eliminate wasteful use of taxpayers’ money on ideas and projects that put NSW state finances at risk, and to fast-track the vital housing, infrastructure and state roads that the people of Pittwater and NSW urgently need to have completed.