Cooks River Catchment Pre-Election Forum

The Cooks River Catchment Community Collective invite you to a Pre-Election Forum on Saturday 7 November 2026.

The forum is an opportunity to hear from key candidates for the 2027 NSW election about their commitment to improving the Cooks River Catchment. The forum will include a roll call of community organisations, testimonies from our communities and negotiations with politicians attending. We will ask decision makers to commit to our asks for specific, concrete post-election action on improved water quality and open green space, renaturalisation rehabilitation of the waterways.

Where: Rowers on Cooks River, 1 Levey Street Wolli Creek

When: 2 - 4pm

Cost: Free! (limit to 4 tickets per person)

MC: Bernie Hobbs

Welcome to Country: Yvonne Weldon

Invitations:

• Penny Sharpe, ALP Environment

• Rose Jackson, ALP Water

• Steve Kamper, ALP Crown Lands

• Jihad Dib, ALP Bankstown

• Jenny Leong, Greens Newtown

• Izabella Antoniou, Greens Summer Hill

• Sophie Cotsis, ALP Canterbury

• Steph Cooke, Liberal Shadow Water and Crown Lands

• Chris Rath, Liberal Shadow Planning & Public Spaces

Confirmed

• Conroy Blood, Greens Canterbury

• Jacqui Munro, Liberal Shadow Environment

• Jo Haylen, ALP Summer Hill

Apologies

• Paul Scully, ALP Planning & Public Spaces

• Jason Yat Sen Li, ALP Strathfield

• Cate Faehrmann, Greens Member of the Legislative Council

Candidate confirmations will be updated on this page as we receive them. Join us to demonstrate the power of civil society and to take action on this important urban waterway ahead of the state election.