Immanuel Selvaraj
No 1 Candidate & Mayoral Candidate
Immanuel is a long term resident of the Hills area and lives with his wife and daughter in Baulkham Hills. He has worked in executive roles in corporate for over 25 years. He is also a small business owner.
He is qualified with an MBA and an MIS from the Central Queensland University.
Immanuel is the President of the Greater Cumberland Chamber of Commerce and the Hills District Toastmasters.
Previously Immanuel has contested for the Federal seat of Mitchell twice in 2019 and 2022 and for the Hills North ward in 2017 .
Immanuel is passionate about ensuring that Council advocates and ensures that infrastructure like widening of roads, parking, sporting fields, parks and buses keeps up with development.
He is also keen to preserve our Green spaces while ensuring that development progresses only around the traffic corridors.
Immanuel is keen to support small businesses more. He is also determined to stop fines for late returns of books in Hills libraries reintroducing shuttle services to bring people from newer suburbs to the metros, Increasing cycleways, Building bus shelters and footbaths especially in newer suburbs and building exercise areas for adults. Most Sundays you can find Immanuel teaching Sunday school in his Reach church in Parramatta.
Dr Sook (Susan) Lee
No 2 Candidate
Susan is a wife , a mother of 3 children and a long term resident of Bella vista
Susan serves as the head of International Business for a business chamber and helps small businesses in Australia expand overseas as well as providing opportunities for business owners in Australia through her international network.
Susan is a teacher by profession and has lectured at an Australian University and currently works as an ESL trainer at a College.
Susan is a Christian who is keen to balance faith based Values and Traditional Family values with progressive policies.
She is also a fitness enthusiast who wants to encourage adults to be more active through adult exercise areas in parks throughout the west ward.
Lachlan Newland
No 3 Candidate
Lachlan is an economics student at Macquarie University, passionate about fighting climate change and delivering housing affordability for the next generation. As a young person he has been renting with his partner in Baulkham Hills for nearly three years, and has fallen in love with the natural environment, community, and character of the area. Ihe has decided to contest so he can bring transparency and integrity to the council, and give a voice to those who care about preserving our green spaces whilst delivering the infrastructure needed to guarantee the dignity and prosperity of our community.