Linda Scott (councillor)

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Councillor
Linda Scott
Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney
In office
17 September 2018 – 9 September 2019
Lord MayorClover Moore
Preceded byJess Miller
Succeeded byJess Scully
Councillor of the City of Sydney
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 September 2012
Personal details
Political partyLabor
Websitewww.lindascott.org.au

Linda Scott is a Labor Party Councillor on the City of Sydney Council, first elected in 2012 and re-elected in 2016 and 2021. She served as Deputy Lord Mayor between September 2018 and September 2019. In November 2020 Councillor Scott was elected unopposed as the President of the Australian Local Government Association, having been vice president since November 2018 and a board member since 2017. Linda serves on the National Federation Reform Council with Australia’s Prime Minister, Premiers and Treasurers, and a range of National Cabinet subcommittees. Scott previously served as the first female President of Local Government NSW from 2017 to 2021. She also serves as the Chair of CareSuper, an industry superannuation fund with more than 200,000 members, having served as a Director since 2018.

Local Government career

Scott won Labor's first community preselection as Labor's candidate for Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney in the 2012 NSW Local Government Elections.[1] She has campaigned for the preservation of and increase in inner city green spaces and burying cables underground to enable more kerbside space to plant more trees.[2][3][4] She is a supporter of public amenities.[5][6][7][8] Scott has campaigned for greater housing affordability and for those in public housing.[9][10] Scott moved to have signage identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait heritage names installed across the City of Sydney.[11] Scott also opposed the sale of heritage public housing in Millers Point, Dawes Point and The Rocks, and campaigned to preserve industrial heritage.[12][13][14][15] In December 2017, Scott was elected to succeed Keith Rhoades as President of Local Government NSW, becoming the first female and first Labor president of the organisation since the merger of the Local Government Association and the Local Shires Association in 2013.[16] On 17 September 2018, Scott was elected to serve a single term as Deputy Lord Mayor.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "2012 NSW Local Government Elections". nsw.gov.au.
  2. ↑ "WestConnex to reduce size of Sydney Park". altmedia.net.au.
  3. ↑ "Scott stands alone on green space targets | Altmedia". altmedia.net.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Thicker NBN aerial cables to face community opposition - Telco/ISP - iTnews". itnews.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Annandale's The Crescent to host first of five City of Sydney skate parks first promised a decade ago". dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "City's skating solutions still up in the air". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "City farm planned for Sydney Park in St Peters by City of Sydney". dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Green Square pool: Sydney architect wins design competition". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Our public housing failure". altmedia.net.au.
  10. ↑ "Streets of Woolloomooloo housing commission 'filthy' as councillor calls for City street cleaners to take over | Daily Telegraph". dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  11. ↑ "City to consider dual indigenous names for Sydney streets | The Australian". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  12. ↑ Cr Linda Scott. "Submission No 207 | INQUIRY INTO SOCIAL, PUBLIC AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  13. ↑ "Put out to Clover: mayor removes Labor past". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  14. ↑ "Subscribe to The Australian". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  15. ↑ "Sydney Pays Respect to its Rich Industrial Heritage". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  16. ↑ "New era for Local Government" (Media Release). Local Government NSW. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  17. ↑ "Linda Scott beats Christine Forster for deputy mayor of City of Sydney Council". Central. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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