Our Team

We are guided by a leadership team, and supported by a growing team of volunteers. Our office holders are listed below.

Anthony Warren
President

Anthony is a Yarraville local with experience across community services, community development, education, international development, social change, creative arts, and local, State and Federal Government. He has undertaken community leadership training, and has been recognised as a local leader by Maribyrnong Council. His passion for the community independents movement stems from active involvement in community independent campaigns in Victoria. He has strong networks within the community independents movement nationally, and with local Inner West community leaders.

Dr Anna Roberts
Treasurer

Anna has over 40 years’ experience as an agricultural scientist, with significant experience in water and catchment management. She has worked in the Victorian government and in private consulting in Australia and in the not-for-profit sector in the United States. Her focus has been working in evidence-based decision-making as part of multi-disciplinary teams. Much of this work has been helping people and organisations make better decisions about how to optimise economic, environmental and production outcomes within the practical constraints of limited funding and political will.
Anna has worked across issues ranging from environmental pollution, biodiversity protection, climate change impacts on water and agricultural production, invasive pest species and bushfire management. Awards include the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for interdisciplinary research.
For the past 12 years she has lived in a wonderful neighbourhood close to the Maribyrnong River and is currently working in a community organisation to help protect people in the Maribyrnong catchment from flooding. She splits her time between the city and country Victoria and is also involved in community independent political campaigns in regional electorates. Her passion is to use evidence-based decision-making and work with people to achieve systemic change to improve environmental, social, and economic outcomes.

Cameron McDonald
Vice-President

Cameron is a local resident and has been involved in community and heritage issues in Maribyrnong for more than 14 years.
Cameron was Mayor of the City of Maribyrnong in 2016, and a Councillor from 2012. He chaired Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee for 8 years, and was part of the team at Council that achieved many heritage outcomes, such as moving management of Pipemakers Park from Parks Victoria to Council, restoring the Dale Stables and installing the big heritage Footscray Park sign. As a councillor he was involved in the Footscray Welcome Arch and the Byron St Car Park.
An obsessive gardener and long-time supporter of the Living Museum of the West, Cameron describes himself as having an unhealthy passion for Bluestone buildings and is known for meandering around small country towns doing heritage walks and visiting local historical monuments. He instigated a ‘Bluestone Festival’ at the Living Museum in 2015, and is on the Museum’s committee. In 2016 he gave his Mayoral Award to the Friends of Newell’s Paddock. Cameron is keen to explore how communities see, use, protect and absorb built-form Heritage.
A local small business owner for 21 years, Cameron plays and coaches Masters football on the weekends and is at the Footscray market most Saturday mornings.

Jessica Marsh
Secretary

Jess is a lawyer with a background in legislation and policy, human rights, and climate change. She was born and raised in Hong Kong and Melbourne, and has lived and worked in Southeast Asia and Ethiopia. She has worked within the Victorian public service, with the United Nations, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, the Red Cross, the Australian Federal Court, and as an independent human rights consultant across the Asia Pacific region.
She is raising her young family in Yarraville, where she has lived for a decade. She loves the village life, the strong sense of community, and the rich tapestry of creativity and culture in the Inner West. She is involved in a number of local community groups working on climate action and local environmental issues. On an average day you might find her walking in Cruikshank Park, enjoying a coffee in Yarraville or West Footscray, or chasing scooters around Hansen Reserve. She thinks that Inner West seats have been taken for granted as ‘safe seats’ for too long.