You're a Wagga business icon, how will you put those skills to use on council?

Ideas area easy, implementation is hard; it takes action to achieve results.

I can get a lot of things done because I’m passionate about delivering outcomes.

Will you have time to commit to council?

People often say I seem busy; well I’m not busy, I’m productive. 

I’m all about making the internet work for me because time is precious.

I won't be scaling anything back, I know I need to do a lot of reading and go to meetings, but it won’t be that hard to manage my workload. 

What are the three biggest issues Wagga faces that council can fix?

Council doesn’t have a digital economy strategy and in the digital age if we’re not playing in that space, our economy is losing out.

Why isn’t council knocking on the doors of the tech giants offering their engineers a great place to live?

Secondly, we need a show-stopping event like Bathurst has with car racing.

We keep saying there must be something in the water in a sporting context, well let’s leverage that with a must-attend event centred around the river, lake, lagoon and Oasis.

Finally, we need co-creation, which allows council and community to meet virtually or physically to communicate and solve problems.

When you buy an airfare you can choose to download the ticket, have it emailed to you or sent via text message; that’s co-creation.

If we could deliver services to people how residents wanted to receive them, we could cut down on administration and slash overdue rates.

Why are you running as an independent?

I was always going to run as an independent, I didn’t want to run second or third on someone’s ticket.

I have bold ideas and I’m strong and smart enough to stand on my own.

Can council bureaucracy cope with entrepreneurial thinking?

Council needs to be more adaptive to change and results driven.

The Integrated Transport Study worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is a classic example of bureaucracy; it should already have been released.

Council has already made changes to parking on Fitzmaurice Street without the report, so why did we need it in the first place?