WHERE I STAND.
ENVIRONMENT
I will fight for:
A genuinely independent Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with real teeth
An enforceable national strategy to protect flora and fauna, natural assets and places of national significance
LIVING COSTS
I will work for:
Legislation against price gouging, unfair pricing, enforceable codes of conduct
Increased competition to lower prices
Reduced energy prices
EDUCATION
I’ll work for:
More investment in state schools
A better educated workforce fit for the future
A level playing field for public and private education
Free university education for first degrees
FORESTRY
I will fight to:
End native forest logging
Support impacted communities and workers transition to sustainable industry
Support transition within forestry to sustainable plantation timber
HONESTY AND OPENNESS
My guarantee:
I won’t promise one thing and deliver another
I won’t be bullied by political parties
I will not take incentives from big business
CLIMATE ACTION
Greater Hobart is Australia’s most vulnerable city tocatastrophic fire like the disaster in Los Angeles.
I’ll fight for:
Urgent Commonwealth/State action to prevent such a catastrophe in our city
A National Climate Action Fund to build resilience against the climate crisis
No one denied insurance for losses from natural disaster
Halting coal mine expansion
Phase out coal and gas exports
No nuclear power stations here or on the mainland
Our children and our grandchildren who deserve better
WATERWAYS
I’ll fight to:
Get the destructive salmon industry out of Franklin’s waterways
Stop salmon industry expansion plans for 50 huge pens in the north of Storm Bay.
Protect the critically endangered Red Handfish and the Maugean skate
Assist communities and workers in the transition out of coastal waters
Work together in Franklin to defend globally significant waterways for our pleasure, sustainable fisheries and posterity
HEALTH
I will fight for:
National dental care assistance through Medicare
Reduce waiting times in hospital emergency departments
24-hour emergency clinics in Clarence, Kingborough and Huon Valley
GOVERNMENT
I’ll work to:
Collaborate with Independents in Federal Parliament to fight for our communities’ needs, lifestyles and liveable future
Take the decisions away from party machines and put them back where they belong – with us
Demonstrate more Independents means more democracy
