All we want for Christmas is…
- For people to be safe, for the fires to stop, for damage to the natural environment to end, for children to have a prosperous future
- Help for rural communities coping the worst imaginable conditions.
- A 2050 target of zero emissions and a plan to get there even sooner – we suggest a mix of:
- a price on carbon and a carbon trading scheme,
- investment in poles, wires and batteries that better integrate renewables
- great public transport, more freight by rail, incentives for small electric cars and a network of recharging stations
- A tax on coal exports say $10/tonne x 200 million = $2b in revenue which could be used for investment in renewables
- A National Integrity Commission with teeth, a ban on donations to political parties from fossil fuel interests, a limit on election spending, better behavior and more honesty from political leaders
- To bring Julian Assange home, stop threatening to lock up journalists, stop punishing refugees
- An end to cuts to science, foreign aid, the NDIS and the ABC
- Tax evaders to be brought into line, ‘robo debt’ scrapped as unfair, the Newstart allowance indexed.