Zali Steggall launches ad campaign to rally support for climate change bill

Independent MP Zali Steggall is launching a national advertising campaign drawing on the summer bushfire crisis to rally public support for her private member’s bill on climate change, due to be introduced to parliament later this month.

Zali Steggall.

The campaign will kick off on Monday and include digital billboards, and bus shelter and telephone booth advertisements across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

The ads will feature images of the destruction wreaked by the summer bushfire season, with one pointing to the experience of “one hell of a summer” and another featuring a koala in burnt bushland. The ads call for the public to support Steggall’s climate act, making the appeal that “what happens next is up to you”.

Read the story from The Guardian by Sarah Martin - “Zali Steggall launches ad campaign to rally support for climate change bill.”

Calls for shire to declare climate emergency

PUBLIC SUPPORT for governments taking more dramatic action in response to climate change is growing, with the Surf Coast Shire being urged to declare a “climate emergency”.

Hundreds of governments around the world have declared a "climate emergency".

More than half of the questions from the gallery at the start of last week’s council meeting were about the topic, with a petition with more than 1,000 signatures to reportedly be submitted soon.

All four questioners were young people. Alex Marshall noted more than 600 governments had declared climate emergency, including the City of Sydney only the night before, and she spoke on behalf of the more than 1,000 individuals who had signed the petition.

Read the story from the Surf Coast Times by James Taylor - “Calls for shire to declare climate emergency.”