Julie Anonymous @voicesofOConnor That FB page is owned by someone else - but we’ve messaged them to see if they’ll relinquish it to us🤞 In the meantime, people can sign up by emailing [email protected] Thank you so much for spreading the word 🤗

"Fossil fuel companies are using carbon offsets to INCREASE production" "It's a really good thing to be storing carbon on your property, but the benefits should stay with the farmer" @pollyjhemming speaking with ABC Rural as gas companies continue to buy farms as carbon offsets

"Farmers shouldn't have to be doing the heavy lifting for industries that already have other means to decarbonise...for industries Australia ultimately doesn't need." #auspol @pollyjhemming spoke to ABC South East NSW on Woodside's move to buy carbon offset projects.

Our Kitchen Table Conversation are creating a buzz across Casey! Why not join one? Check out upcoming ones on our website Events - Voices for Casey (voices4casey.com.au)

#ClimateChange is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. We’re causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s climate beyond natural limits with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years. #ActOnClimate

"In the last 20 years none of the seats that have been won by an independent were marginal. "They were all safe, or fairly safe seats. "Not a single marginal seat was taken by an independent off a major party." - Executive Director Richard Denniss @RDNS_TAI #auspol

"The economy is supposed to serve the people. "Not the people the economy" Nobel Laureate Prof Joseph Stiglitz on ABC 7.30, from his last visit to Aus with Australia Institute! See Prof Stiglitz on his upcoming speaking tour, events across Australia! Joseph E. Stiglitz #auspol

What a contrast. In Norway the Govt taxes oil companies, pays the billions into a sovereign wealth fund, and university degrees are free. In Australia we give away much energy wealth and our students pay more into Treasury than the mining giants 🤦‍♂️ #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…

Here's a link to the full clip from Insiders this morning. You need independents to make the government more ambitious and to make the opposition more ambitious, to make them better, to keep them honest, to make them strive to provide vision for the country. #auspol24

Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of #ClimateChange 1. Stop burning #FossilFuels 2. Stop methane emissions 3. Stop deforestation 4. Restore degraded land 5. Change what we eat 6. Go #RenewableEnergy 7. Use energy more efficiently 8. #ActNow theguardian.com/environment/20…

The establishment may be rattled by the idea of a more balanced Parliament, but citizens are energised by the prospect of their voices carrying greater weight. A more diverse and representative government is not a threat, but a triumph of democracy. Phil needs to catch up.

We already have a hung parliament. No party has had a majority in the senate for well over a decade. That means *every* *single* *law* that gets passed needs to be negotiated with cross benchers. Any political journalist should know this.

Community politics events happening in great seat of Moore, WA. Have a look! Events - ⁦Voices for Moore⁩ Thanks for opportunity to come and discuss ‘The Indi Way’ - ⁦Voices for Indi⁩ ⁦⁦Denis Ginnivan⁩ ⁦Lesley Howard⁩ ⁦Kristen Lock⁩ voicesofmoore.com.au/events

Around Merredin? Denis Ginnivan (a voicesforindi.com co-founder, The Indi Way book compiler) will be sharing the Indi/community independents story in Merredin from 5pm for drinks/6pm for dinner this Thu 25 July at the Commercial Hotel. facebook.com/events/1146927…

WA events coming up soon! One of the 13 ⁦Voices for Indi⁩ authors of The Indi Way, Denis Ginnivan will be in conversations about how communities can shape their participation in our democracy, and improving political representation. ⁦Lesley Howard⁩ ⁦Kristen Lock⁩

Our fortnightly meeting with more participants on Zoom. The only way to hold meeting over the vast distances in the huge and diverse electorate of O'Connor. If you want to improve how politics work in O'Connor, join our group. Democracy doesn't happen by itself.

“We have created a nation that questions too little, that is fed sound bites and rants that fan simmering tribal politics,” writes John Hewson. “Australia needs to be investing in thinking, in creating or designing the way a smart nation should.” satpa.pe/UJ9WXL0

“The political landscape is becoming more diverse, representative and, for those wedded to Australian political tradition, scary.” Australia Institute's @RDNS_TAI on why no federal seat can be described as “safe” for a major party: satpa.pe/p3oFChI

"If you made them pay for the value of the resources & their fair share of taxes, you wouldn't have the problems that you have today." #auspol Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, on #QandA says the fact Australia gives away its natural resources is 'mind-boggling'.

I've been uplifted by the community support since I first ran 6 years ago, and encouraged by the inroads other Independents are making at bringing integrity and long-term thinking to Canberra. It's time for our local area to have our voice heard too. ~Alex