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Spent a great last weekend (apart from missing the

Spent a great last weekend (apart from missing the first 💜⚓🤍 home game) in Denmark celebrating the Community Wind Farm’s 10th birthday.

It was also a pleasure catching up with fellow Greens and supporters at Denmark Environment Centre about issues affecting the south west. As a result of what I have learnt from local community members, I’ll be questioning the State Government on hazardous prescribed burns in the region which have resulted in serious losses to remote precious forests and biodiversity.

I will also be asking about the ad hoc expansion of mining along the south coast which this government is failing to manage appropriately. As a result we are seeing applications for mining exploration in places it should not be entertained. Thank you again to everyone who attended, I'll catch you next time 💚

Thinking beyond net zero was a key theme I took aw

Thinking beyond net zero was a key theme I took away from last night’s inspiring event. As part of Perth Design Week, Hassell hosted a round table discussion to explore the ways regenerative design can help create a Net Zero Perth. The question is: how do we embed biodiversity, the lifecycle of materials, and community and culture into city and building design.
I had a lot of fun being on the panel exploring this with Prof Josh Byrne from Curtin Uni, Karla Fox-Reynolds, Hassell's Sustainable Design Leader in Perth, and a bunch of other experts who jumped in and out of the inner discussion circle.
It was a great, innovative format and I learnt more than I shared – which is my favourite kind of panel to be on!
Thanks to Hassell for hosting.
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Back for the fifth week of Parliament this year an

Back for the fifth week of Parliament this year and the last one for March. As ever we've got a lot on - it looks like we'll see the Local Government Amendment Act come before the upper house this week, which I'll be examining closely, and I'll be asking further questions including about PFAS risk from bauxite mining near Perth, public housing construction figures, and a concerning school program run by a gas company. I also have my regular work with the Estimates Committee.

On Friday I'll run a live recap of what we've been up to in Parliament and the community in the past few weeks - stay tuned! If you'd like regular updates about the issues and campaigns I'm working on you can sign up for email updates 👉 link in bio.

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A good one in this weekend's Sunday Times on the W

A good one in this weekend's Sunday Times on the WA housing crisis.

A big frustration of my time in Parliament and even before has been Labor's unwillingness to acknowledge they’ve made mistakes on housing policy and construction in WA.

If you can’t acknowledge you’ve been doing it wrong, it’s harder to make the necessary changes 🤷

And tweaking business as usual isn’t going to address our housing crisis.

🌏 SAFEGUARD MECHANISM TOWN HALL WITH ADAM - 4PM

🌏 SAFEGUARD MECHANISM TOWN HALL WITH ADAM - 4PM WST TOMORROW 🌏
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Thanks to my colleagues in the Senate, and the support of millions of Australians for real action on climate change we'll have legislation that stops many of the 116 new coal and gas projects in the pipeline from going ahead.

Pollution will actually go down, the Beetaloo & Barossa gas fields are looking shaky, and proponents of WA's own highly polluting projects will have to take a hard look at their bottom lines. It's not the full ban on coal and gas science says we need, and we'll continue to oppose every fossil project that tries to squeeze around the new rules. But it is a big leap forward towards holding polluters accountable and making the worst of them unviable.

It's a big, imperfect package of legislation and many of you will have questions about how it will work. Sadly it's also clear that this is the limit of Federal Labor's climate vision - to get any further parliamentary wins from here, we’ll need to work together to hit the streets and start focusing on and amplifying the voices of those who are on the frontlines fighting each of the remaining projects.

Join Adam for a *Safeguard Mechanism virtual Town Hall* at 4pm WA time tomorrow, to hear more about the Greens amendments and what comes next in the fight to end coal and gas.

👉👉 To register click the link in my bio

This weekend I had the pleasure of joining the Den

This weekend I had the pleasure of joining the Denmark community for the tenth birthday part of their community wind farm.

At a cost of a bit over $6 million, this pioneering project has not only saved 6000 tonnes of CO2 per year and provided over 40% of Denmark’s electricity but it has also provided $200,000 in community grants and paid back its community investors at an impressive 10% per annum.

Well done to everyone involved and a special thanks Craig Chapelle and Paul Llewellyn for inviting me down and sharing their knowledge and insights with me.

WA is going to need a lot more wind to enable the clean energy transition and successful projects like this fill me with hope.

Earlier this month I shared data obtained by askin

Earlier this month I shared data obtained by asking Parliamentary questions that showed just how poorly the current Government has performed as a public housing provider in terms of shrinking housing stock and a ballooning waitlist of people needing support to avoid becoming homeless. I got updated figures earlier this week and unsurprisingly the needle has barely moved; in fact in February there were 104 more people on the priority waitlist than in January.

This is a really distressing aspect of the housing and homelessness crisis that has emerged on this government’s watch; in 2019 about 1 in 10 people on the waitlist were classified as ‘priority’, i.e in urgent need of housing. Now it’s 1 in 4 people – and top of that, there are over 9,000 more people on that waitlist than when Labor was elected. That’s despite the flattened population growth during the hard border period, and despite this government having years of extraordinary revenue income to invest in public housing and homelessness services.

This month has seen a string of tragic, unprecedented data on rough sleeping and fatalities among people experiencing homeless, and we know that’s just a taste of the trauma that a record number of West Australians are suffering from insecure or unavailable access to housing.

The current approach to housing and homelessness is not getting the results we need, and stronger action and immediate funding are required to turn this around.

Coverage of the actions of a tiny hate group outsi

Coverage of the actions of a tiny hate group outside Victorian Parliament this week, following on from an equally tiny far right rally in Perth recently are distressing for many. These extremists are few, but have been amplified by elements of the media and unfortunately, members of State and Federal Parliaments – actions that have no place in any society the vast majority of us want to live in.

The Greens in WA and nationally stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and will never stop fighting against intolerance and for a genuinely inclusive community.

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