Change is possible: Australia needs a Green New Deal

When I dropped my kids off at childcare just a few weeks ago, the air was so dangerous that the warning on my phone showed someone in a gas mask.

Australians are angry and anxious because the government
clearly doesn’t have the climate emergency under control and
 has no plan to get it under control.’

As I stood on the burned-out property of Nick Hopkins in Malua Bay last month, he summed it up perfectly, feeling two parts shattered and three parts angry.

Australians are angry and anxious because the government clearly doesn’t have the climate emergency under control and has no plan to get it under control. But people are also angry and anxious because the basics of life are no longer guaranteed.

Study hard and do Tafe or university and you get underemployed in an insecure job with low pay. You get a job and then find you can’t afford a house because the government has rigged the housing market against you.

Read the opinion piece from The Guardian by Adam Brandt - “Change is possible: Australia needs a Green New Deal.”