"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."
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