“Maybe I’ll run in Coorparoo,maybe I’ll move out to Inala and run against Annastacia Palaszczuk at the next state election,” he said.
“Maybe I’ll live out of my van for a few months and travel between music festivals. Maybe I’ll organise a blockade against a coal mine somewhere. I’m still working it out.”
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The Gabba Ward’s three-term representative – Brisbane’s first successful Greens councillor – will make his final council speech on Tuesday before standing down at the end of April.
His first election in March 2016,with Labor preferences,was a catalyst for wins by Greens Amy MacMahon in state parliament in 2020 and Max Chandler-Mather at federal level in 2022 in overlaying inner-city seats.Larissa Waters became Queensland’s first elected Green in 2010.
In his place until the next Brisbane City Council election – on the last Saturday in March 2024 – will be arts worker and former DJ Trina Massey,who stood for the Greens in the Central Ward during the 2020 elections.
Under council bylaws,a party can appoint a replacement councillor without a byelection if the replacement is announced within a year of the next election.