About us

Progressive Port Phillip is guided by three overarching concerns/principles:

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE: Supporting equity and the common good
  • ENVIRONMENT: Collective action for a sustainable future
  • COMMUNITY: Strengthening local democracy

These are at the heart of all our activities and advocacy.

Supporting equity and the common good

Fighting for a caring and just City that is a home for all with:
  • generous services for older residents, people with disabilities, mother and children, including affordable and high-quality childcare and vital libraries;
  • ongoing investment in new and renewed social housing;
  • a celebrated and diverse arts community;
  • networks of parks, safe foot paths and bike paths;
  • vibrant neighbourhood economies, equitably supported to ensure survival of key sectors, including micro businesses and not-for-profits that meet local needs and create local jobs.

Collective action for a sustainable future

Pushing hard to address climate change urgently on all fronts to:
  • challenge resistance to an environmentally sustainable future;
  • re-imagine waste management and recycling to achieve a zero waste and circular economy that turns waste onto a useful resource;
  • completely convert to renewable energy to achieve a zero-carbon community;
  • capture and re-use water, and instigate widespread tree planting to become a cool, climate adapted community.

Strengthening local democracy

Engaging the community in setting Council directions and policies so that it:
  • genuinely incorporates people in decisions for our community;
  • demonstrates sound governance and strong finances, and is responsive and efficient;
  • builds marvellous community assets;
  • acts always in the interests of future generations as much as for the present.
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