Joeline Hackman is a business and communications expert with a passion for community-driven solutions. As the lead of a sustainable housing project at Global Sisters, she focuses on providing vulnerable families with innovative pathways to home ownership, addressing intergenerational inequality.
Joeline's community dedication is evident through her co-founding of the 'Feed Our Medics' charity, which supported frontline workers during the pandemic, and her role managing the Dee Why Community Facebook group. She also founded 'Northern Beaches War On Waste,' a local initiative encouraging environmental stewardship, which earned her a Northern Beaches Council Eco Award in 2021.
Supporting small businesses and alleviating the cost of living are central to Joeline’s advocacy. She champions services like soft plastics recycling, food waste collection, and cost-efficient energy solutions, helping the Northern Beaches community live more sustainably while reducing financial pressures.
A lifelong Northern Beaches local, Joeline takes great pride in the area’s natural beauty. She is dedicated to celebrating and preserving the bushwalks and beaches while ensuring vulnerable residents have access to essential resources. Her professional and charitable experiences reflect her compassionate, driven nature, and commitment to transparent, inclusive governance.
Through her leadership, Joeline ensures that local decisions reflect the true voice of the community, fostering innovation and connection to build a stronger future for all Northern Beaches residents.
Contact
Joeline.Hackman@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au
Inauguration speech 2024
Good evening, everyone.
I stand before you today with immense gratitude and a deep sense of responsibility. Thank you to the Northern Beaches community for placing your trust in me. Your confidence and your hope to be well represented is not something that I take lightly. I'm here to listen, to work hard and to ensure that your voices are heard every step of the way. Thank you to my amazing running mates. Nick Beaugeard, I will always get your name spelled right from here on in. And Nick from Bucketty's, who were both absolutely relentless in their support. Thank you as well to Sue who was in the seat of Curl Curl before me, and Michael Regan before her, and also to the amazing Ben who is a Curl Curl local, and who, to me, is like a brother from another mother. Thank you for your support.
Thank you as well to my amazing volunteers whose passion, creativity and dedication propel me forward and bring so much meaning to this work. Thank you to my mum, Debbie, whose example of strength, kindness and generosity every single day has shaped who I am and what we can give to this community. Gavin, Greg, thank you for your ongoing support. I really appreciate having strong, kind, wonderful men in my life. Thank you. Ethan and Miles, I'm so proud of you for being avid readers, recyclers and loving the outdoors. I'm doing this work for you and for your generation.
To my fellow Councillors I am so excited to be working alongside each of you. Together, we have a unique opportunity to shape the future of this fragile, beautiful place that we call home, but we will have competing priorities when decisions arise. We each exist in a prism of a social construct of experiences that we have had, of pain that we have felt, and of hope that we have held dear while we watch the generation before us at the wheel. We are in the position now where we can make these beautiful decisions that can shape how our community enjoys where we live. So in that prism, multiple things can be true at the same time. And I invite you to be each curious about each other's lenses and consider the pathway that you are lighting before you.
I'm delighted in this council to see better representation of age, gender, multiculturalism, egalitarianism and pragmatism. And I hope it will give us all a better lens through which to solve the growing inequities in our community. Young people, vulnerable people and people disconnected from their lives because they are so busy working just to make ends meet, they need us. They need us to step outside our privilege, to be compassionate and to be bold. Bold in the decisions that we make and in the way that we approach the challenges that lie ahead.
The cost of living is a real and pressing issue for so many in our community, and I know that we all heard that on the campaign trail. We have the power to make a difference. By capitalising on cheap, reliable technology that is here today, we can offer not only financial relief to our residents, but we can also protect our environment for future generations. To dig minerals out of the ground, transport them, process them and transfer them to our cars, homes and businesses, it costs 28 cents per kilowatt hour. It's the 21st century now, and we have the technology here today to convert that big ball of energy in the sky to power our homes, our cars and our businesses for 3 cents per kilowatt hour.
Even more than that, we make so much energy already so cheaply, so reliably, that we can give away free energy to the lowest 10%, the poorest 10% with the lowest income of our community. We could give energy away free between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM every single day, but what's missing is the political will. We as policymakers need to take that action and lead with courage to make those changes that will benefit our community and their financial security. Be bold.
My goals for this term are clear. Protect our environment, support local businesses and sustainable housing. Advocate for the reduction of living expenses and deliver the infrastructure that our community needs to live happy lives. Together, we can achieve this and we owe it to the community to do so. Thank you.