Mildura deputy mayor joins climate-driven challenge to Nationals in Mallee

The deputy mayor of Mildura, Jason Modica, will become the second independent candidate to challenge the National party in the seat of Mallee – running on the issues of water, climate change and people power.

 The deputy mayor of Mildura, Jason Modica, will become
 the second independent candidate to challenge the
National party in the seat of Mallee.

Known as “Jake the Tradie”, Modica served on Mildura council with Ali Cupper, who unexpectedly won the state seat of Mildura last year as an independent, a seat held by the Nationals on a 8% margin.

Modica enters the field after the sitting Nationals MP, Andrew Broad, a vocal supporter of traditional marriage, announced his retirement following New Idea allegations he met up with a younger woman in Hong Kong via a sugar daddy dating website.

Read the story from The Guardian by Gabrielle Chan - “Mildura deputy mayor joins climate-driven challenge to Nationals in Mallee.”

Power of the people needed to address climate change

T

he French Government conducting the tests must have known it could not win against such a show of people power.

So a few minutes before midnight on 10 July 1985, French secret service agents struck in Auckland harbour, New Zealand. They bombed and sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, one of the ships that was due to lead the flotilla into the nuclear test zone. The French agents murdered Fernando Pereira, a photographer and crew member.

Read the EcoWatch story about people power - “People Power Needed Now More Than Ever”.