NSW Election 2019: Cronulla state election candidates

From Greenhills Beach to Gymea Bay, candidates of every stripe are vying for your vote in the state electorate of Cronulla. Meet the state MP and the candidates in contention here.

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From Greenhills Beach to Gymea Bay, candidates of every stripe are vying for your vote in the state electorate of Cronulla.

Sitting Cronulla state Liberal MP Mark Speakman will take on four other candidates at this Saturday’s NSW State Election.

MARK SPEAKMAN – LIBERAL

Mark Speakman

Sitting MP Mark Speakman is married with two children and has lived in the electorate since his childhood. He attended Caringbah North Public School and Caringbah High School, before studying economics and law at the University of Sydney and Cambridge University.

Mr Speakman has been the MP for Cronulla since 2011 and was a barrister from 1991 and a silk from 2004.

Mr Speakman said his top priority was infrastructure, including improved train capacity on the T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra Line, upgrading Sutherland Hospital’s operating theatres, improving local roads, building the F6 motorway and upgrading local schools.

Mr Speakman said he was also committed to frontline services including extra nurses and doctors at Sutherland Hospital, extra teachers and extra police.

TERESSA FARHART – LABOR

Teressa Farhart

Labor candidate Teressa Farhart was born and raised in the Sutherland Shire and is a mother of two. She has been a nurse for more than 25 years, working at health services across the Shire including Sutherland Hospital.

Ms Farhart said she would stand up for increased funding for local schools and TAFEs, defend local health services, ease the cost of living by putting downward pressure on electricity prices and upgrade local roads and transport to ensure people are spending more time at home and less time on the roads.

JONATHAN DOIG - GREENS

Jonathan Doig.

Greens candidate Jonathan Doig lives with his family in Gymea Bay and works as a software engineer at the University of New South Wales alongside researchers who make cities like Sydney better, fairer and more sustainable.

In the past 17 years Mr Doig has been involved in community campaigns for the Sutherland-Cronulla shared bike-pedestrian path and the Sutherland Climate Action Network.

Mr Doig said his priorities were clean, cheap renewable energy by 2030, stopping overdevelopment, building affordable housing as per the community’s need, investing in public transport, electric vehicles and cycleways, and banning corporate political donations.

MINOR PARTIES

Phillip Burriel – Keep Sydney Open

Richard Moran – Sustainable Australia