On Sunday 21^st September, Climate Action Coogee in conjunction with many other climate action groups, took the communities’ demand to have a concrete action on climate change to Parliament House in Canberra.

Climate Action groups from around the country had rallied support for the community authored Climate Protection Bill, resulting in an impressive 2,500 signed postcards addressed to about 95 Members of Parliament from around the country! The postcards were demanding that these politicians support real action on climate change - namely, the Climate Protection Bill.

Speakers included Dr. Nina Hall from Climate Action Coogee, Phillip Sutton, co-author of Climate Code Red and new Greens Senator from WA, Scott Ludlam. Although we invited all 149 members of the Lower house and all the Senators, Mr Ludlam was the only politician who agreed to come. However the best outcome of the event was that Mr. Ludlam agreed to accept the massive pile of postcards on behalf of the Parliament and then introduce them during a Senate sitting and pledge to distribute them to the MPs they were addressed to - we couldn’t have asked for a better outcome!

We also made a large “ºC” sign, to represent the increasing temperatures, with bikes from those who rode to the rally!

Sunday in Canberra was just the beginning. As Senator Ludlam said about the postcards, “Consider this a down-payment”. Now is the time to continue letting our MPs know that we want decent action on climate change.

Thanks again for all your support. We would particularly like to thank all the groups who worked to get postcards signed, and particularly the Manly Chapter of Clean Energy for Eternity, Families Facing Climate Change from VIC, Climate Action Newcastle, Climate Change Balmain Rozelle, the ACT’s Rat Patrol and riders from Mudgee.

Contact Tony Windsor about his Climate Change Bill

Tony Windsor, Independent MP for the New England electorate (northern NSW) is about to introduce a Climate Change Bill into Parliament.

He has written his Bill after meeting with members from Climate Action Groups who presented him with the community written Climate Protection Bill.

We have not yet seen the contents of Mr. Windsor’s Bill, however we understand it contains some of the measures outlined in the Climate Protection Bill.

Now is the perfect time to contact Tony Windsor’s office, to ensure his Bill is as good as it can be. We suggest you phone or write a letter (see his contact details below). You may like to include the following:

• Congratulate him on his vision and his plan to introduce a Climate Change Bill into Parliament
• Ask for a copy of his Bill - or what it includes
• Request that he adopts the asks mentioned in the Climate Protection Bill (click here to download the Bill or summary)
• Particularly stress the targets that you want him to adopt. In the Climate Protection Bill, we ask for emission reduction targets of 50% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 100% below 1990 levels by 2040

Tony Windsor’s details are as follows:

Contact your local MP and ask them to support the Bill

With Tony Windsor about to introduce his Bill into parliament, it is now so important for your federal MPs to know that you want action on climate change.

We suggest you contact your federal MP and ask them to support Tony Windsor’s Bill if you think it is a good Bill, or lobby them with postcards asking them to support the community written Climate Protection Bill.

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