About Your Council
Point Ormond Ward - Cr Jane Touzeau
Councillor Jane Touzeau
Ward: Point Ormond
Contact: Cr Jane Touzeau
Phone: 03 9209 6705 (business hours)
Mobile: 0432 287 634
Fax: 03 9536 2769
Email: jtouzeau@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Point Ormond Ward Boundaries
The boundaries of the Point Ormond Ward are shown on the VEC Ward Structure Map.
Elwood/Ripponlea Neighbourhood Profile
See the Port Phillip Demographic Profile page for details on population, age, languages spoken at home, work industry, birthplace, household & family type, dwelling structure, weekly household rent, weekly household income and more.
Biography
Jane has had many varied years working in the community. Jane was most recently teaching adult literacy and English in Broadmeadows, and before that was the Fieldwork Co-ordinator in the Community Development BA courses at Victoria University. Jane has taught Community Development, Welfare and literacy at various Neighbourhood Houses and TAFE colleges.
Jane has lived in Elwood for 25 years and in South Melbourne for several years prior. Jane has participated in various organisations as an Honorary Probation Officer, as a member of child care committees, Elwood Primary School Council and After School Care committee, Elwood College Parents Association, the Elwood/St Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre, the Port Phillip Community Forum, the Community Development Collective, and the Victorian Council of Schools Organisations. Jane has also been involved with community groups including Parents for Music, Community Music Victoria, Save Albert Park, Community Alliance of Port Phillip and unChain St Kilda, groups of committed people concerned with understanding, promoting and preserving important qualities of life, music, public parkland, democratic governance, and appropriate use of heritage areas and special places. Jane was also involved with the scholarship students from East Timor after Independence, studying here with the desire to contribute to the development of their country.
Jane was on the Steering Committee for the Elwood Children's Centre, and was a participant in the Neighbourhood Action Research Team which contributed to the broad public health plan Creating a Healthier and Safer Port Phillip, 1999 - 2005.
Jane stood for Council because she believes democracy is an idea that can only work if citizens take responsibility for the community and society they live in. Jane appreciates living in this beautiful and vibrant place, and felt her experience at the community level might contribute to the way in which the City is managed. Jane believes that we must do what we can to contribute to our own wellbeing, that of our families, friends, communities of place and interest so she accepted this democratic challenge.
Jane aims to work with Councillors and staff to ensure good governance in our City. Jane is concerned at the threat to wellbeing posed by climate change and even though local government can't make a national or global difference, it can make a local one and the world is local! Water is essential to life, and Jane aims to achieve greater collection and re-use of rainwater and stormwater in an effort to sustain our street trees and parks, which in their turn contribute to air quality and lower temperature.
Jane believes more people will turn to community as the mismanagement of the global financial system impacts on everyone. Jane believes this 'crisis' has been exacerbated by the slowness, or failure, of public policy to have dealt with important issues over the recent decades of economic rationalism, in which economy was separated from, and elevated above, environmental and social reality. Jane believes some of the best things in life are simple (well, deceptively simple!), kindness, openness to learning, working together, friendship, music, appreciating the beauty and fragility of our planet and all of these things are within our power to work towards, as individuals, in groups, and in productive concert with local government.
For more information contact ASSIST via eServices or phone (03) 9209 6777 or TTy (03) 9209 6713.
