Cath Connor

Cath Connor is the Greens candidate for the Labor-held seat of Dobell.

The community and child health social worker has lived and worked on the central coast with her family for 30 years.

Connor says her main drive to enter politics came from the dire state of the environment and climate change.

She says the “need to forge a new path is urgent” however “change is possible”.

In addition to her career as a social worker, Connor has run a community choir, taught tai chi and been involved in small business.

Her main policy areas are raising welfare payments, adding dental and mental health to Medicare, homelessness, climate change and better-assisting refugees in the community.