Marc Rerceretnam

Dr Marc Rerceretnam
Greens

Council Ward: South

272 Holden Street
Ashbury NSW 2193
Ph/Fax: 9799 4651
Email: marc@hwy.com.au
Chairperson: Local Multicultural Ethnic Affairs Committee, Shopping Trolleys Working Party/Taskforce
Member: Works & Infrastructure Committee, Community Services Committee, Communications Committee, Library Committee, Envrionment Committee, Budget & Operations Review Committee, Strategic Planning & Economic Development Committee.

  • In 2004 Marc was elected to Ashfield Municipal Council as a Local Government Councillor. However he had been active in the local neighbourhood surrounding Croydon, Croydon Park and Ashfield since 2002 as a local Ashfield community activist challenging unsympathetic high rise developments in 1 and 2 storey Federation style neighbourhoods.
  • In 2004, 3 months after getting onto Ashfield Council, Marc initiated the social and economic program to revitalize the Ashfield Town Centre - a delicate proposition that involves juggling the interests of local residents, shopkeepers, pro-development landowners and local and state political networks. This required a lot of innovative ideas and the ability to create links and networks with the local actors in Ashfield CBD.
  • By late 2006 and early 2007 significant improvements to the Town Centre was becoming visually apparent with many business owners, for the first time, reinvesting thousands of dollars in refurbishing their businesses along Liverpool Road.
  • Also there has been a huge increase in the diversity of clientele patronising the area which has increased by about 40% in many shops. (CMWA survey, 2007)
  • Marc Rerceretnam has a diverse background originally from Singapore, arriving in Australia as a migrant in his early 20s. He has a diverse social background with ethnic Indian and Chinese heritage and living in Ashfield since 1992 has helped him cultivate an optimistic and practical view of community and social cohesion in Sydney. Marc completed a PhD at the University of Sydney in 2003 examining interaction between communities and governments.
 Rerceretnam