Right. People are fed up, and can you blame them? 10 March 2023. 2. So, we know Senator Andrew Braggs job, he has been assigned to keep a watchful eye on everything we do. Simon Holmes Court has stood at the intersection of community, climate action, and politics since May 2007, when he attended the meeting of a community group setting out to build Australia's first community-owned wind farm. So, can we put some specifics around those values that are very clearly articulated by your own organisation, and also just flowing from that? Well, in this case, every one of those donations that you see in that disclosure there has been named. The candidates will make their own decisions, they will have a mandate from their communities. Simon Holmes a Court: Look at our disclosure, you will see the donation and the name next to it. Their target? Shaquille Lawrence Rees-Pitt. This is a spontaneous, autonomous and entirely individual set of responses across the country to community dissatisfaction with politics as usual. And we put them in contact with the experts who know how get through. Current Address: ZMNM SW 26th Pl, Cape Coral, FL. They last year, we had a string of disclosures of horrific behavior for horrific treatment of women, not just in Parliament House, but a lot of women were empowered to speak up. Simon is the founder of Climate 200, a group of more than 7,300 Australians working to help community-backed independent candidates contest the next federal election. But were not going to tie our own hands behind our back. We dont dictate policies. 69.87.216.86 Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Ill be chastised later by Laura Tingle, president of the club. Simon Holmes Court (born 30 May 1972) is an Australian businessman and political activist. Or was it when Helen Haines and Zali Steggall showed leadership by introducing landmark anti-corruption and net zero bills? You can complain on social media. Nearby homes similar to 2118 E 92nd St have recently sold between $485K to $495K at an average of $610 per square foot. However, given that the Treasurer himself has been known to personally call donors listed on our website and monster them, some have chosen simply to stop at complying with their legal disclosure requirements, as their right. We often lament that accomplished Australians rarely step up and run for Parliament. Daniel Jonathon Craigen. Were so lucky to live in Australia to be here with so much potential and opportunity at our fingertips. I was interested to hear you speak so much about the David versus Goliath fight that you are involved in here, particularly in regards to the way the rules that youre calling for applying to the major parties are being followed by you. [CDATA[// > Weve talked about the disaggregation of the services, in that we no longer need parties to run viable campaigns, as Cathy McGowan showed, as Zali Steggall has shown, and many others, we dont need these things. Here it is. Theyre furious that we have made so little progress over recent decades, and that the current leadership team treats women as if they are some political problem to be managed. We have been absolutely transparent. And some campaigns have chosen Each campaign is choosing their own disclosure. If you live in electorate with a community independent and youre able, volunteer your time to the campaign, hang a campaign sign on your front fence or in your apartment window. David Crowe: Yep, the next question. But I think thats not surprising for people being in community organising, right? She is best known for her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and her weblog, Webdiary. Voters are becoming increasingly aware that their representatives vote with the coal-loving climate science deniers like Barnaby Joyce: every single time they talk the talk, but voters know that they dont walk the walk. And people say, why not in Labor sets? Jason George Cotter. Now, many people are having a hard time getting their heads around this community independents movement. Well, here are the independents that you asked for. +61 2 6125 4367, Dr Falko Ueckerdt Because politics is too important to be left to politicians. To continue accessing your membership benefits renew today. Initially, the government said it would invest that $2 billion over 10 years: $200 million a year in emissions reduction. Lets start with climate change. The community campaigns are organising, using digital tools such as Zoom, Slack, Nationbuilder, and social media. Andrei Charretts first timer experience as a #MackellarVotes volunteer, The Liverpool Plains, koalas and the #CSG industry: a briefing paper by Rosemary Nankivell. Theres a lot of noise at the moment around electro donation disclosure. Whats stopping you from today, if youre if youre talking about integrity and politics, and you want to set the standard, you can set the standard today. If they could match our our level of transparency, what a better Parliament we would be, but I completely reject your characterisation of us as engaging in any underhanded behavior. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs. He is the son of Australia's first billionaire Robert Holmes Court, and convenor of Climate 200. So lets fix Australia. With three months to go to the election, the independents are already having a massive impact. But I think Zali got it right with her bill and I dont think I need to reply any further than that. There are many ways that we hack at the branches for change in our society. It's ageism compounded with sexism. His main source of income is from his career as a businessman. Andrew Tillett: Well, whats stopping you from doing it voluntarily today? David Crowe: I counted five or six questions. And yet, this governments climate policy is to shirk our responsibilities, lie about our progress, and close our eyes to the opportunities ahead. If there seems to be a pattern developing of donations being split? Now, this is a significant sum, but it pales into insignificance compared to the major parties. National Press Club of Australia I know of three Climate 200 donors who have received phone calls from the Federal Treasurer, when hes supposed to be helping get this country out of our COVID recession, three of them have been monitored by the Treasurer. And a welcome to our guest today Simon Holmes a Court whos been making waves in Australian politics as the founder of Climate 200, the group that is fielding or supporting candidates at the coming election on an independent platform on climate change and integrity and other issues.
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