Dylan Griffiths
Dylan Griffiths is councillor for the Djarrawunang (Ashfield) Ward in the Inner West Council.
- I’ve lived in the Inner West for 25 years and currently rent in Ashfield.
- I work at the University of Sydney and am passionate about urban geography and planning. I’m an Ashfield pool regular, a keen rock climber, I’m active in social justice campaigns and in my union (NTEU).
- On council, I am championing affordable housing, the creation of new cycling and pedestrian links, community focussed urban planning, making the Inner West more accessible, greening our streets, protecting green space and urban habitat, solar and emissions reduction.
- I am passionate about our waterways and am council’s representative on the Sydney Coastal Council Group.[1]
Rank And File Action
In 2022 the Rank And File Action slate ran for positions on the NTEU Sydney branch committee.
[1] David Brophy for Academic VP
Vote [1] Dylan Griffiths for General VP
Vote [1] Finola Laughren for Casual BC
Vote [1] to [8] for Ordinary Committee Member: [1] Markela Panegyres, [2] Dylan Griffiths, [3] Dani Cotton, [4] Cian Galea, [5] Ben Miller, [6] Luke Alexander, [7] Matte Rochford, and [8] Ben Graham.[2]
Greens
Dylan Griffiths is the Greens NSW delegate to the Australian Greens National Council.[3]
Mundey connection
Green comrades
Senator Mehreen Faruqi February 10, 2023.
— with Clr Dylan Griffiths - Inner West Council, Izabella Antoniou - Greens for Summer Hill, Jenny Leong Councillor Liz Atkins, Damun/Stanmore Ward, Inner West Council
Shetty connection
Ned Cutcher, Kobi Shetty, Liz Atkins, Dylan Griffiths.
SEARCH comrades
Liz Atkins, Peter Murphy, Dylan Griffiths
Left Renewal
“Richard Di Natale, I am a member of Left Renewal and I hope you can hear this because the Greens are my party too,” a woman said to great applause at a meeting of Left Renewal (LR) on January 25, 2017.
More than 100 people, including from Newcastle and Wollongong, came to the first public meeting of LR, an anti-capitalist grouping within the Australian Greens, to hear about its aims and objectives.
Three LR representatives spoke about why they had helped form the socialist tendency announced last December, its politics and how they were proposing to organise. This was followed by questions and comments from the floor.
LR has come under fire from former Greens leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne, and current leader Richard di Natale.
Brown, on January 27, repeated his call for LR members to be proscribed. The three senior Greens insist that the Greens are not anti-capitalist and that the politics of LR are inimical to The Greens.
LR describes itself as “a socialist tendency comprised of rank and file members of the NSW Greens”. Its positions are closer to the NSW Greens of the early 1990s, which formed around the four principles of the German Greens — ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy, social justice and equality and non-violence.
LR’s Chris Andrew said those four pillars “are fundamentally counterposed to capitalism” and he outlined the multi-tendency history of the early Greens.
He called for a united front against the undeclared right-wing of the Greens Party saying as they are organising, so too must the left.
Dylan Griffiths asked why when the socialism popularised by US Democrat Bernie Sanders and British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn had engaged so many people, especially young ones, the Greens here want to shift to “an ideology free” centre.
He said that LR would abide by the party’s democratic structures and rules governing various elected bodies.
Holly Brooke said The Greens were at a point where it needed to make a decision about whether the party was primarily about getting more parliamentary seats or wanted to build the movements for long-lasting change.
“It is necessary for a Greens project which is principled and engages in social movements. Parliamentary success is a means, not an end”, the LR charter said.
NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon and NSW MLCs Mehreen Faruqi and David Shoebridge have publicly defended LR.[4]
SEARCH Committee run
At the SEARCH Foundation 2018 AGM Brian Aarons, Dylan Griffiths, Nadia Montague, Therese Doyle, Amalina Wallace, Lee Rhiannon, Peter Landi, Cat Kutay, Ama Somaratna, Kay Anastassiadis, Astrid O'Neill, Patricia Hovey, Peter Murphy, Holly Brooke, John Poulos, Zac Gillies-Palmer stood for SEARCH Committee member.
SEARCH Foundation 2018 AGM
Sydney attendees of SEARCH Foundation 2018 AGM included David Pink, Luke Whitington, Alan Anderson, Sam Altman, Rex Hewett, Gillian Workman, Carmen Blanco, Rachel Zeng, Nicholas Harrigan, Pat Ranald, Peter Murphy, John Poulos, Helen Hewett, Richard Walsham, Alice Strauss, Amalina Wallace, Cathy Crawley, Patrick Angel, Marcus Strom, Anthony McLaughlin, Adrienne Shilling, Dylan Griffiths, Chris Elenor, Paula Rix, Don Sutherland, David McKnight, Jesse Krause, Zac Gillies-Palmer, Ama Somaratna, Georgina Goddard, Holly Brooke, Victoria Brookman, Shannen Potter, Cian Galea, Lee Rhiannon, Russ Hermann, Masih Sadat Shafai, Leila Barreto, Bob Makinson, Sally Trevena, Cat Kutay, Adam Farrar, Daren McDonald, Adrian Graves, Evan Gray, Audrey McDonald. SEARCH Foundation
ATTENDANCE LIST SEARCH AGM 2017
Invited guests Mark Godlewski and Scott Marsh of Pitcher Partners; Seng La of Refuge Accounting.
- Adelaide: Ashley Campbell, Glen Giles, Gwyneth Regione, Roger Keyes, David Faber, Kay Anastassiadis, Adrian Shackley, Don Jarrett.
- Brisbane: Patricia Hovey, Jan Ryall, Clare Rudkin
- Melbourne Judith Klepner, Julius Roe, Peter Gibbons, Louise Connor, Penny Sara, Greg Strickland, Michael Evans.
- Newcastle Greg Giles, Vera Deacon, Malcolm Bailey, John Witte, Judy Morley and Bev Symons.
- Sydney Luke Whitington, Victoria Brookman, David McKnight, Casey Thompson, Declan O'Byrne, Audrey McDonald, Tom McDonald, Daren McDonald, Paul Norton, Barry Power, Peter Murphy, Pat Ranald, Sam Altman, Gillian Workman, Mark Stevens, Carmen Blanco, Kathy Gollan, Richard Walsham, Tony Hawkins, Pam Hawkins, Dylan Griffiths, Leila Barreto, Cat Kutay, Ama Somaratna, Don Sutherland, Matt Kunkel, Adrian Graves, Mick Tubbs, John Poulos, Patrick Wright, Mark Stevens, Ron Marriott, Nivek Thompson, Margaret Kirkby, Adam Farrar, Jane Durie, Helen Hewett, Rex Hewett, Tim Gartrell, Brian Aarons, Amalina Wallace.
Refugee activist
