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Dad, lawyer and scientist. @QldGreens MP for Maiwar.
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My Bill to
#RaiseTheAge
is now before Qld Parliament!
It'll go through a committee inquiry and there will be an opportunity to make submissions - you can read more about the bill, and sign up for updates on the process and getting involved, here:
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Or, to put it another way, Australians saved a staggering $14.2 million in gambling losses every single day.
The casino industry in Australia lost a staggering $14.2 million every day its doors were closed during the pandemic.
#9News
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Qld is facing possible blackouts tonight because units at THREE aging coal power stations are offline or busted, incl privately owned Gladstone & Milmerran and State-owned Callide.
Unreliable coal and privatization have failed. Qld must aim for 100% publicly owned renewables.
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Tax mining corporations to properly fund state schools
Tax mining corporations to properly fund state schools
Tax mining corporations to properly fund state schools
Tax mining corporations to properly fund state schools
Tax mining corporations to properly fund state schools
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BREAKING: Qld Resources Council just admitted they broke the law by not registering as 3rd party before spending $1000s on attack ads against the Greens. After we called them out in a press release they've panicked & registered.
Waiting for the ECQ to confirm they'll prosecute.
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The State Government just rejected Clive Palmer's Waratah coal mine. It's HUGE news:
👉The first time the Land Court has recommended refusal on climate and human rights grounds
👉A clear acknowledgement that wherever Qld coal is burnt, it will make climate change worse
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Ambulance services should be free
Ambulance services should be free
Ambulance services should be free
Ambulance services should be free
Ambulance services should be free
Ambulance services should be free
(For everyone.)
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BREAKING: the Qld Greens are proposing a publicly owned bank to offer mortgages at 1.5% lower interest rates than the big 4.
New Zealand has a publicly owned bank. Queensland and Australia used to have them. There’s no reason we can’t have one again.
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BREAKING: Today I'll introduce the Greens bill to
#RaisetheAge
of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 in Qld, with an alternative model for 10-13 year olds.
The national process has stalled and there are children young enough to lose baby teeth in prison. This has to stop now.
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BREAKING: Qld Labor has joined the LNP, One Nation and Katters to vote down my
#RaisetheAge
Bill.
But so long as there are still primary school aged kids in prisons, the fight is not over. One day we'll look back astounded that we ever locked 10 year children in prison.
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The very fact that Andrew Forrest (or any one person) has enough money to give away $70 million on a whim shows how much trouble we’re in.
Rule by the 1% and mining CEOs has caused the climate crisis. Make big coal companies pay for the cleanup.
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If you liked: rejecting Clive Palmer's coal mine
You should try: rejecting all new coal and gas
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BREAKING: Clive Palmer's Waratah coal-fired power station has been scrapped!!! This is a huge win for the future of our planet and our people 🥳🎉
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The Greens won seats, got the balance of power, pushed ACT Labor to back 100% renewables, and now it's saving people money.
Climate action means cheaper power and a better life.
Canberra households will see their electricity costs fall from 1 July, as renewables contracts shield consumers from surging wholesale electricity prices
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We just got sworn in!
Qld Parliament now has 2 Greens MPs who don't take corporate money and are ready to fight for ordinary Queenslanders. SO bloody glad to have you in here with me
@amymacsouthbris
💚
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BREAKING: Voluntary Assisted Dying laws have passed Qld Parliament. This win for dignity and choice belongs to all the advocates who've fought for this for decades.
I'm proud to have had even a small part in this historic reform.
#VAD
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Overheard in the Parliament House lifts just now: LNP MPs talking about peaceful protestors:
One MP: "...fought my way through those bloody socialist, communist lefties Extinction Rebellion this morning.."
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The Greens took a bold platform to this election.
We stood up to the major parties, their corporate backers, and far-right lobby groups. We fought back with a relentlessly positive grassroots campaign to transform Qld in favour of ordinary people.
And we won.
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Wow! My 1 year old just turned to me and said “Dad, Australia’s mandatory detention regime for innocent asylum seekers is a gross violation of international human rights treaties and must be stopped”!!
Isn’t she clever?
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BREAKING: The Queensland Government has extinguished Native Title over 1,385 hectares of land so that Adani can forge ahead with building their climate wrecking mine.
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MASSIVE shout out to this Toowong resident countering the disgusting anti-abortion truck parked outside the voting booth with her own sign. Unashamedly pro-choice 💜💚✊
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Qld Labor's Youth Justice Minister just responded to a petition by bragging that more kids are in prison under her govt.
She says their new laws have led to "100 more young people in custody than in the same month the previous year".
Minister, that's a failure, not a success.
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Step aside, criminologists et al - the true expert has logged on
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BREAKING: the LNP is opposing Qld Labor's public sector pay freeze.
Yes, you read that right.
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Woah. Just asked
@AnnastaciaMP
if she'd follow
@DanielAndrewsMP
's lead & back public servants attending Friday's
#ClimateStrike
. I kid you not, the Qld Labor Premier just told Parliament strikes should be held "after hours or on your lunch break". Does she know what a strike is?
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On the left is Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Transport Minister introducing his infamous anti-protest amendments to the Traffic Act. On the right is our Police Minister introducing Palaszczuk's new laws. I told you I don't make this comparison lightly.
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We're down at 25 Waverley Rd Taringa stopping the Qld Govt from evicting David. He's a disability pensioner living in public housing.
@jonathan_sri
is locked to the front door. We won't be moving.
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Public transport should be free.
Not just for kids. Not just for seniors. Not just for students or between the hours of 9pm and 3am.
For. Everyone.
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The Premier has let slip at a presser that the Qld Govt is considering building a new youth prison.
How about instead of building more prisons to fill, we fund measures that prevent offending in the first place - housing, healthcare, free school meals, diversion programs...?
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Hello, Premier?
Yeah, it’s Juniper. Listen. Let’s talk free childcare.
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BREAKING: I've just seen one of the most disgraceful acts from Qld Labor since I was elected.
At 3:30pm, they moved 57 pages of amendments to an unrelated bill w 30 mins for debate.
They suspend the Human Rights Act to allow children to be kept in watch houses & adult prisons.
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BREAKING: The Qld Greens would create a publicly owned developer to compete with private developers.
It'd acquire land-banked properties and build 100,000 public homes over 6 years.
70% would be available to rent and 30% to buy, at discounted prices - available to all Qlders.
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Today I'm addressing a Parliamentary committee about my Bill to
#RaisetheAge
of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 & transition 10-13 year olds out of prison.
14 is the absolute minimum age recommended by doctors, legal experts, First Nations groups and the UN.
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Said he joked to a QPS officer about running them over with his car. MPs laughed.
Officer apparently said "you could try, but you wouldn't get away with it."
"What about getting out the cattle scraper??"
This is Queensland Parliament. Undisguised contempt for regular people.
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Good afternoon to everyone except Labor and the LNP who had a god laugh when I pointed out that dixers are an undemocratic waste of time then voted against my amendments to ban them
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Today in Parliament I called for Australia and Qld to move towards a four day working week. Many of us work excessive unpaid overtime, while others don't have enough hours. The two-day weekend is only ~70 yrs old (1947) after 60 hr weeks in the early 1900s. Why stop at 38 hours?
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BREAKING: Minister is introducing Labor's disgraceful bill to lock more kids up, w presumption against bail & GPS trackers for minors.
Starts by saying this is for kids who "don't respond" to existing system. Perhaps because this punitive, carceral approach DOES. NOT. WORK.
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So yesterday Qld Labor quietly announced a $50M tax break for the gambling industry, just weeks after they froze nurses and teachers' wages.
Apparently workers can afford a pay cut but the gambling industry can't afford to pay their taxes. Interesting.
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BREAKING: Sex work has been decriminalised in Qld.
Safety strategies like working together and checking in with a friend will no longer be criminalised.
Sex work will be recognised as REAL WORK.
A huge win for workers and advocates like
@respectqld
/
@DecrimQLD
. Congrats👏☂️
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We've done it! We've made history and won Maiwar for the
@QldGreens
. We delivered a message of hope and people listened. RT if you're excited about building a future for all of us! ☀️
#qldpol
#qldvotes
#auspol
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Wait are you telling me that the voluntary tax on coal companies did not work?
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New analysis from the Greens: Big banks, fracking companies, health insurers & property developers, paid $4.7 MILLION for face-to-face meetings w/ senior Lib, Nat & Labor pollies.
Tonight the Qld Parliament debates my bill to ban all corporate donations.
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Yesterday Qld Labor made a pretty massive about-face on climate.
They’re finally talking about closing coal power stations, cutting emissions and giving energy workers a job security guarantee.
Make no mistake: we wouldn't have seen this if not for the Federal election result.
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Today I’m grateful because:
1. It’s Juniper’s birthday
2. We got this billboard up with donations from all you wonderful people
Happy Friday!
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My heart breaks for
#Pell
survivors. Again the rich & powerful band together to protect each other from justice - not for it.
Survivors, please know we believe & support you. Even with this decision, your courage is not wasted. By coming forward you helped so many.
Thank you.
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Wait no! Please don't tell everyone about our plans to
- properly fund public schools
- ban corporate political donations
- nationalise private hospitals
- raise $55B for essential services by increasing mining royalties..
that'd be so embarrassing 😫😶
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BREAKING: the Greens will introduce a bill to immediately ban new coal, oil and gas projects in Queensland and phase out fossil fuel exports by 2030.
Ending coal and gas is the only way to meet our Paris Agreement obligations and secure a clear future for resources workers.
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You won't see this ad in Brisbane. You might see an ad about Labor's commitment to renewables, or how they "accept the science" of climate change. Here's why I think Labor's wrong to keep walking both sides of the fence here. Thread:
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These are the same people who are pushing us over the edge of a cliff by supporting Adani, new coal and fracking, just so fossil billionaires can keep making money. Their own communities will suffer. They may never face the consequences.
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Yesterday was Tanya Day's birthday. She died in custody after being arrested for "public drunkenness".
Qld is the only state still committed to this outdated offence, disproportionately used against Indigenous people.
Today I've called for it to be scrapped.
#JusticeForTanyaDay
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BREAKING: Qld Police are finally discontinuing the use of spit hoods in watch houses.
I called on the govt to ban these torture devices last month. There’s no good reason to put a bag over someone’s head, especially in watch houses where children as young as 10 are held.
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Tonight Qld Parliament will debate Robbie Katter's bill to ensure people can use discriminatory language and misgender people. I want to use my speech opposing the bill to elevate trans & gender diverse voices with lived experience. Pls reply or DM me & I'll add it to the record.
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Qld Labor is now offering corporations regular access to ministers for a $10K annual "subscription".
The LNP continues their corporate cash-for-access program for a $25K annual fee.
Tell me this isn't legalised corruption.
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Extremely mature response from other MPs in Qld Parliament just now, jeering ""ARE YOU ON IT NOW?!" at me after I asked the Premier when they will legalise cannabis.
Am I "on cannabis"? Christ, what year is it?
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BREAKING: the Greens will double the number of psychologist sessions available to Queenslanders on a mental health care plan from 10 to 20 per year - and we'd make them free, with no gap fees.
Free healthcare includes mental health.
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Qld Labor is making is making it a criminal offence for a child as young as 10 to breach technical bail conditions - for example, miss an appointment or a curfew.
I'm not sure how that makes anyone safer, but it sure does entrench a child in the criminal legal system.
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When I came face to face with a kid trying to steal my wife's car, I didn't see a criminal. I saw a child who was out of his depth and absolutely terrified.
It only made me more certain we need to
#RaisetheAge
.
Here's my op-ed in the Courier today:
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Let's remember what that infamous T-shirt said: "Adani, No Means No" and it was made by the Wangan & Jagalingou TOs Family Council in their fight against one of the world’s most powerful coal billionaires.
Both Labor and LNP support that billionaire.
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BREAKING: the cowards in the Labor State Govt have bowed to LNP & Newscorp pressure to approve New Acland's Stage 3 coal mine expansion.
These cowardly hypocrites clearly don't care about climate, the farmers or the future of Qld coal communities.
Shame on Qld Labor.
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I just got ejected from the chamber after calling Qld Labor out for their bill to lock up more children.
Maybe they shouldn’t introduce bad laws if they don’t want them critiqued?
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Here's the video from the Resources Minister's gross response to my question about the IPCC report and coal and gas approvals in Queensland this week.
"We'll be exporting coal for many years to come"
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Well tonight I ran down to the chamber wondering why I'd missed my speaking spot on the gov't's prisons bill, to be informed that Labor & the LNP had "negotiated" to cut the speaking list (and my spot) without telling the crossbench.
Who needs democracy anyway?
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The only thing more disgraceful than a school punishing a nine year old for a political protest is grown up politicians like Pauline Hanson and this cretin punching down like absolute cowards
#qldpol
Shame on her parents for using her as a political pawn.Stop the silly protest and stand and sing proudly your National Anthem. Refusing to stand disrespects our country and our veterans. Suspension should follow if she continues to act like a brat
#qldpol
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Premier just stood up in Parliament to proudly declare her gov’t wants new laws giving Police extra powers to target peaceful activists. This misguided overreach is scary, and it's also glaringly inconsistent: where's this tough approach when big coal companies break the law?
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Good.
Now if we could just drop the whole police state thing, that'd be ace.
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Your regular reminder that both Labor and the LNP hold "business forums" where big corporations pay thousands of dollars for access to ministers right before an election... and it's still legal because neither major party wants to cut off their major fundraising source 🙃
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Massive threat to Qld metallurgical coal (which is making climate change & bushfires worse) but also a massive opportunity. 🇦🇺 supplies 50%+ of global iron ore exports, and QUEENSLAND has the best solar resources for clean hydrogen. Aus should be exporting zero carbon steel.
World first in Duisburg: Some minutes ago, we have launched tests into the use of
#hydrogen
instead of coal in our working blast furnace 9. The starting signal was given by NRW‘s economics minister
@A_Pinkwart
.
#climateaction
#climatestrategy
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Coal & gas companies make climate change & bushfires worse. It's time they paid up.
We want a $1 levy on coal & gas corps to fund:
👨🏼🚒1,400 new paid firefighters
👩🏽🚒$75m for volunteer fireys
✈️A permanent aerial firefighting fleet
🙍🏾♀️200 new Indigenous Rangers to manage country
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Anyone else get sick to their stomach every time they remember our government puts 10-13 year old children in prison?
#RaisetheAge
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BREAKING: Parliament just passed reforms to
give queer and gender-diverse people greater control over their personal ID documents in Queensland 🥳👏🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
All of my awe, gratitude and congratulations go to the LGBTQ+ community who've fought for this for decades.
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This is stolen land. I have no words to convey how disgusted I am.
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LNP question (actually this was touchingly naive): why isn't lawful protest enough?
Ms Dyhrberg: One example-- it was illegal for women to be served at a bar in Qld, until two women chained themselves to the bar at the Regatta. After that, the law changed.
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I don't want to live in a State where the biggest five banks can make $42 billion in profit in the same year that 39,000 Queenslanders rot on the waiting list for social housing.
We need a Queensland Big Bank Levy.
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The federal LNP are handing over $20m to help open up new fracking in the North Bowen and Galilee Basins. Qld Labor are pouring in taxpayer $ as well.
Fossil gas is driving climate disaster. It must stay in the ground.
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All we want is more for Qlders, less for mining billionaires.
More for kids going hungry at school. More for families who can't pay the rent. More for doctors, nurses and teachers. More for young people facing uncertain futures.
And a little less for mining billionaires.
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I'll be at the Brisbane Supreme Court tomorrow morning supporting Ben Smee in his legal battle with Adani.
I’m sick of multinational mining corporations thinking they can use their billions to bribe, bully or silence anyone that gets in their way.
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Confused about the LNP's "he-said/ she-said" developer donations drama today?
Simple solution. Ban all cash-for-access meetings and corporate donations.
Should've been done years ago - and it might have, if both major parties weren't making such good money from it.
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Here's what shoddy, inadequate scrutiny looks like. Qld Labor are rushing through laws against peaceful protest. Submissions on the Bill closed Tues midday. Yesterday, the public hearing scheduled for 21 October was suddenly pushed forward to this Friday on the Premier's say-so..
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Qld Parliament just VOTED DOWN my bill banning corporate donations. LNP, Lab, KAP, Bolton all voted no. Very frustrating, but since I introduced it in 2018, politics has shifted.
After dismissing my bill, Labor are separately legislating to cap all donations & campaign spending.
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Coal CEOs are at the wheel, doing 130ks down the M1 in the wrong direction. We're sitting in the passenger seat, but it's not just us. Also in the car:
- all of our kids
- everyone we love
- every place we love
Enough.
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Someone needs to tell the LNP this isn't how targeted stimulus works. You're meant to target the people who need money, not those who can afford $150K renovations.
Ordinary people are facing wage cuts, job losses and housing insecurity.
The rich are facing some extra savings.
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I just got invited to a "cocktail reception" with Santos at Qld Parliament.
While the Govt is considering whether to ban gas exploration in the Channel Country, Labor & LNP politicians are inviting the gas lobby to spruik its "positive and lasting impact" there.
No thanks.
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Children in the Cairns watch house are sleeping on floors with 3 other people in 2-person cells. They have no access to education, no partitioned toilet and no change of clothes for a week or more.
This is what the Qld Labor Govt is calling "business as usual".
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I mean, $200M for renewables storage & a workers transition package vs $200M to prop up expensive, dirty coal… not exactly a difficult decision, unless you’re terrified of the coal lobby 🤷♂️
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Labor MPs blunder into quite a good question: what is the **evidence** that civil disobedience actually changes the world?
We could suggest..
- suffragettes
- land rights movement
- civil rights movement
- union movement
- anti-apartheid movement
- the Franklin Dam blockade
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This is big. The Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners of Adani’s mine site are calling for our support to stop the destruction of their land and water. I have no doubt a time will come when thousands of Qlders will join them on the ground.
BREAKING: We have just served
@AdaniOnline
with an eviction notice for illegally trespassing on Wangan & Jagalingou land and demanded they cease all mining and extractive activities on our Country. They’ve got to stop work, and get out.
#StandingOurGround
#EvictAdani
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If the Greens won McConnel & South Brisbane in 2017, we would've been in the balance of power. We could've stopped Adani, built more public housing and publicly owned renewables, and so much more.
Now we have that chance again. You better bet I'm excited.
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Too wholesome for words: these housemates saw an LNP sign go up across the street... so they made their own Greens sign for their place 😍
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Outraged and ashamed this morning. But this isn't the end. Sending support and solidarity to W&J warriors rightfully camping on their lands. And to all First Nations people fighting for justice and truth, every single day on this stolen land. Always was, always will be. 🖤💛❤️
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In response to my question, Jackie Trad REFUSES to agree to release the final royalty holiday deal with Adani which is due on 30 September 2019. Claims the deal would be "commercial in confidence". Free coal, free groundwater, no transparence. You really couldn't make this up.
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BREAKING: 20 minutes before deadline, the Labor State gov't has deferred finalising the Adani royalties agreement. Under Labor & the LNP, if you're a coal billionaire you get special deals and as much time as you need, but if you're a peaceful protester you get locked up.
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On Close the Gap Day, Labor & LNP teamed up to pass a bill that:
- Suspends Qld's Human Rights Act
- Criminalises technical breach of bail for children
- Expands circumstances where children are locked up pre-trial
... in a state where 64% of children in prison are Indigenous.
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I am about to move this motion, calling on the Qld Government to stop funding the manufacture of weapons parts used by Israel in its horrific attacks on Gaza.
Qld Labor has gone out of its way to avoid even talking about Palestine for months. Let's see how they respond.
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This is pathetic.
My Bill to
#RaisetheAge
is about to be debated and not a single Qld Labor MP, other than the responding AG, will speak on it.
These cowards don't even have the guts to get up and explain why they think 10 year olds belong in prison 😡
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Make the flu vaccine free. This should be an absolute no-brainer.
I've called on the Health Minister to make the flu vaccine available free of charge to all Australians as part of the response to COVID-19.
This will keep more people healthy and lessen the burden on our health system.
#auspol
#COVID19Aus
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Qld Labor has approved Adani's groundwater management plan. But make no mistake: this is not the end. Labor's internal meltdown & capitulation to coal billionaires won't make an entire movement of people disappear... we're just getting started.
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Just a couple of “extremists” ready to march down Queen St at 8am to defend their right to peaceful protest
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