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

We Must Make Climate Change The Number ! Issue. ...

Welcome to the Greens! For 25 years, protecting the environment has been at the very heart of our movement. 

But right now, things are getting serious. We’re seeing the impact of climate change all around us, threatening communities now and the quality of life we’ll hand over to future generations. And the major parties don’t have a plan to deal with dangerous climate change.

This election, more than ever, politics needs a shake-up.

We need to send a message to the major parties and demand strong action on climate change. This election, vote climate. Vote [1] Greens.

Vote for your children's climate. Vote for your climate.

Vote for Arthur Bain

• Suddenly, many conservative politicians in Australia have 'backflipped'  and now publicly accept that we are living in an age of rapid climate change.... 

BUT

Vote for my future climate

• Many politicians still fail to grasp the catastrophic impacts of climate change all life on Earth will soon experience, therefore they are only 'greenwashing' their election campaigns.

• Most scientists believe we are very likely to heat the planet well beyond 2 degrees.

• The Liberal - National Party Coalition has loudly and publicly rebadged Tony Abbott's Direct Action funding, which inefficiently used your taxes to bribe polluters but has the proposed funding allocation by $200 million at the same time.



• Under the threat of an election defeat by a

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climate activist, Tony Abbott now says he believes in climate change.

• NSW has the biggest state economy yet it's contribution to planning for climate change and slowing global heating is pitiful.

• Yet some National Party and Liberal Party MPs still want to build new, subsidised, coal-powered energy generators even though renewable energy is cheaper and as reliable.

• The Federal Labor Party still supports the Queensland Labor Party's support of new, massive, coal mines. It has no plan to transition coal workers out of coal mining jobs.

• The above parties have no real planning for slowing and mitigating the effects of climate change. It is unlikely we will meet the Paris targets, (don't believe the false accounting of the the Liberal Party - National Party Coalition). 

• Only candidates promising a massive attack on the causes of climate change and promising real planning for more economic downturns, droughts, heat waves, bush fires, epidemics, food and water shortages, health epidemics, ocean acidification, animal extinctions, sea inundations, property devaluations and waves of climate refugee immigration deserve your first vote.

Vote for your children's climate.

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Journalist manhandled by NSW Premier’s bodyguards for daring to ask questions about koalas

Climate Action now

An incident today saw a well respected journalist, who was doing his job attending a press conference with the Premier of NSW and Nationals leader, dragged away and assaulted by security for seeking to ask a question about the protection of koalas in Northern NSW.

The Greens will be referring the matter to the NSW Police tomorrow for an urgent investigation, because it is unlawful to assault a journalist for simply trying to ask a politician a question.