Jeri Hall – Lismore meet your candidates

By Samantha Elley

The Northern Rivers Times has asked all of the candidates for the Lismore electorate for the September 14 local government elections to introduce themselves to voters identify the issues they want to address and policies they would pursue if elected.

Jeri Hall (Group A)

Jeri Hall

She joined LCC as a part of the Krieg ticket 2021. Sworn in two months before the catastrophic floods that submerged Lismore in February 2022, Jeri was on the front line providing buses; free of charge; transporting people between the evacuation centres and vital services whilst also being on the ground helping, feeding, cleaning, fundraising and supporting those in need.

With husband Aaron, they own and operate Halls Bus Company, which covers various rural areas such as Numulgi, Bexhill, Whian Whian, Dunoon, and Leycester. Jeri and Aaron are also partners in a cattle farm and a rural accommodation facility on the outskirts of Lismore. Jeri is an extremely community-minded person and is always heavily involved in volunteering in school life.

As Deputy Mayor during the last two years, Jeri has developed strong relationships with NSW Premiers Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns, Ministers for Transport and Roads, Disaster Recovery, and countless other regional centres that have aided Lismore’s Recovery.

Jeri has also provided pivotal support in the transportation industry as the chair of the Traffic Advisory Committee with close relationships with Transport for NSW, locals schools and the community at large.

During her time on this committee, Jeri pioneered for the school interchange to remain at the previous Trinity site and helped to secure over a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of funding to be spent on bus shelter infrastructure to be built at the site to ensure the safety and comfort of children traveling on school buses throughout Lismore.

Jeri has built strong connections with parents, schools, and bus operators throughout our region to ensure that children and parents feel safe sending their kids on public transport throughout Lismore.

Jeri has fought hard to ensure that post-flood, the children of Lismore still have adequate amenities to pursue their sporting endeavours, have a secure and safe passage to school and are also afforded the same services that they would have been pre-flood and she will unapologetically always fight for the youth of Lismore.

She co-created an online mothers’ group for women, “Eat. Sleep. Mum. Repeat”, which has nearly 4,200 members, with the primary focus of supporting mothers in our region. In her prior careers, Jeri has previously worked in governance roles at Southern Cross University and St Vincent’s Private Hospital.

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