In 2019, I rode 190 kilometres down the New England Highway to call for better leadership in the New England electorate.

My first grandchild was born on the second night of the ride. 

For my three sons, my granddaughter and every other child yet to be born, I have searched for more than 25 years for honest political representation on climate change and a regenerative vision for taking care of our watersheds.

Instead, I’ve found politicians claiming to represent me who have been prepared to deny the reality of climate change, at any cost. Now those same politicians have voted to abandon their commitment to net zero.

In doing so, I have all the evidence I need that they do not represent me, nor the interests of my children and granddaughter – instead it is the special interests of the powerful and deep-pocketed fossil-fuel industry. That is who they represent.

Not me, not my family or our communities in regional Australia who will pay the highest price for........

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