Tuesday, April 16, 2019

GREENS LAUNCH ENERGETIC COWPER CANDIDATE: LAUREN EDWARDS

"Today the Greens entered the federal campaign for the seat of Cowper launching their bright and energetic candidate Lauren Edwards ahead of the May election.

Ms Edwards is excited by the prospect of representing the people of Cowper who are waking up to a political system that has little regard for serious action on climate change or social equality.

“The Greens are the only party who understand, and are willing to act to stop the climate breakdown and ecological collapse that we are currently staring down. Unless we pull our heads out of the sand our kids will be facing the harsh future of unthinkable burden and cost” she said.

“I have a family and I want my own, and all our children to have a future free from worsening droughts, extreme heatwaves, super storms and food insecurity. We need strong political leadership to deal with our rapidly changing climate. To transition to a low carbon economy, we must say no to Adani and we need a hefty jobs investment in sectors that can drive and deliver real climate change prevention and solutions”

Ms Edwards, who is an Allied Health professional, believes that we need to recognise and address the real day to day struggle that people are already facing with rising costs of living, including energy bills, and to spell out how much more difficult things will get unless we intervene to stop the upward direction of our planet’s temperatures.

“We know that Australians receiving low and middle income levels are the most vulnerable to the extremes of a system under stress. High electricity and grocery prices will hit the least well off first and hardest. Without greater equity we can expect that homelessness rates will continue to rise and be felt even within middle income Australia.”

“The Greens have a Federal Housing Trust plan that will build 500,000 new homes to ease the shortfall of quality homes for over a million people. We see easing the cost of living for a million vulnerable people as the right thing to do as we transition our energy sector and economy broadly” she said.

The Greens enter the race discussing Climate Change as the front and centre issue, something the vast majority of Australians want to hear about and vote on in this May 18 federal election."


Monday 15 April 2019 

See also:

Lauren Edwards - Greens candidate for Cowper



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