Simon Holmes Court has stood at the intersection of community, climate action and politics since May 2007, when he attended the meeting of a community group setting out to build Australias first community-owned wind farm. We have already taken the first step, and I invite the parties to follow us on this disclosure journey. Nor do we seek to for us. And I think a couple of things occurred to me here. Simon Holmes a Court: Okay, so a couple of questions there. As youve articulated: one, its a science based approach to climate change. I will stick with the donations issue for a moment and go to something in your speech, where you lay out the challenge to the major parties to reduce the donation disclosure threshold to $1000 and require real time disclosure. Barnaby, the beer would be warm, the band would turn up a week later, right? It can and should be saved, As Angus Taylor ducks, weaves and dithers, China zooms past. But when the budget was announced, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg stretched that decade to 15 years, with only $199 million allocated over four years. Like most Australians, these candidates are not warriors of the left or the right. Fifteen years later to the month, at the May 2022 federal election, one of this former Silicon Valley dotcom engineer's . Trent Zimmermann sat on the Parliamentary committee that reviewed Zalis climate bill. Nothing to do with me. Right. But just as technology and new business models have disrupted so many industries, including the media of course, campaigning is changing. Im not sure this is the forum for it. A man from Syracuse in Sicily has been jailed for 14 years and fined 28,000 after he admitted at trial to having imported 10kg of cannabis with the intention of trafficking it in his car in 2018. Speakers include Inala Cooper, Simon Holmes Court,Michael Bradley, Gareth Evans, Chip Le Grand and Richard Denniss. CONTACT US; FAQs; apartment parking stickers one month in spain itinerary papillon lune symbolique largest d3 schools by enrollment animal control officer massachusetts. ]]> It didn't reveal when the second . James Morrow: No, its split up to just below the donation threshold in the return there, but the question is why is it split? Well, to get a movement like this up and going in a community, it starts with three or four people at a coffee shop or kitchen table, and they bring in three or four friends and then pretty soon, before you know it, theres a hundred, two hundred, three hundred people and it has hundreds of nights and weekends given up for these movements, and people putting in not only their free time, their talent, but also their money into these movements. Now, we have long advocated root and branch reform of electoral funding laws, lower disclosure thresholds, and real-time disclosure. Leading the gang in Australia is silver-spooner, Simon Holmes a Court. But you know what, sometimes, sometimes in David and Goliath battles, David wins. Our technical producer is Atticus Bastow. In response, were seeing the greatest wave of independent campaigns in Australias history. SimonHolmes Court is a mentor at the Energy Transition Hub and has developed the openNEM data tool. And sometimes both. No, you will have a look at it and youll find that its a whole series of donations just below the limit. When your whole campaign is to achieve these issues, and it does make a difference, who wins the election and who governs if the issues that youre passionate about are actually achieved? Do you really think that every one of those donations is small? Dylan John Horridge. So firstly, the specifics. Theyre pensioners, retirees, teachers, nurses, doctors, tradies, and farmers. As Monique Ryan, the independent candidate for Kooyong, said recently: When a woman in her fifties sees a problem, she says to herself, just give it to me, Ill fix it.. And then, frankly, there arent that many of them. It's produced by Elle Marsh, Kara Jensen-Mackinnon, Anu Hasbold and Alex Gow. Jane Norman The ABC: Simon Holmes a Court, thank you for your address, Jane Norman from the ABC and also a director here at the club. Their focus? If we start dictating specifics, then we can hardly say that these independents are independent. The incumbent independents act as a backbone for our Parliament. Just going to Climate 200s values, if I may, for a minute. We would be pretending to be something that we are not, if we were a registered party, and we dont have any candidates. Climate 200 goes above and beyond the legal disclosure requirements, encouraging all their donors large and small to disclose their names on our website. Well, in this case, every one of those donations that you see in that disclosure there has been named. Climate activist, clean energy investor and son of Australia's first billionaire, Simon Holmes a Court, is on a mission this election to strip the Liberal Party of some of its safest and wealthiest seats. Simon Holmes a Court: Weve already taken the first step. Date. Monash University CRICOS Provider Number: 00008C, Monash College CRICOS Provider Number: 01857J. Simon Holmes Court and his Climate 200, the body that provided funding for "teal" and some other independent candidates who promoted action on climate change, integrity and women's issues,. So, theres an element of uniform or even coordinated financial control across several candidates. But it gets worse. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. No, we dont have a policy platform, we have a set of values. One of our supporters described it to me as feeling a feeling of active hope. Lets join this incredible new wave. The governments plan to reduce emissions is a joke that nobody finds funny. They last year, we had a string of disclosures of horrific behavior for horrific treatment of women, not just in Parliament House, but a lot of women were empowered to speak up. The communities of indi, Warringah, Mayo and Clark have all set a shining example for others to follow. Simon Holmes Court 1 Article 1 Comment Senior advisor, Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne Profile Articles Activity Energy transition specialist and clean energy. Youve got a common policy platform that your candidates are adopting. And it is makes complete sense that campaigns will go to service providers to help them with their compliance. Ive got a hypothetical for you, but one that youve no doubt already considered. Weve failed to invest in mineral refinery and battery cell production. So, we havent quite got to all the questions that wed like. The resilience and wisdom of your culture is perhaps our nations greatest treasure. And its estimated that there are currently 10,000 actively engaged volunteers. Theres a lot of noise at the moment around electro donation disclosure. Simons background is that he has been involved or active with Climate 200 for a couple of years now, including at the last election. Hes an hes an excellent controller. Katherine Murphy Guardian Australias political editor: Hi, Simon. Please welcome Simon Holmes a Court for his address today. Its a great honour to stand here today. And so, we can argue about this all today, but what do you say that youre following a double standard to what you would like to see the Parliament. Its as if each community bear with me its as if each community is building a car. As Ive said before, we dont start campaigns, we dont select candidates, we wait for these campaigns to come up through the grassroots and demonstrate strong community support, demonstrate capable campaign teams, and demonstrate the ability to fundraise within their community. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. And lets strike at the root of our weakened democracy. All Addresses (9) Family (3) Social; Court (1) And More; Phone & Email (7) We found 7 phone numbers and email addresses. Hacking at the branches hasnt been working, we have to strike at the root. Brian Clive Muggeridge. And we will only fund those who also have those values. David Crowe: The next question is from Greg Brown. We have a Climate Change Authority, they publish reports, and maybe a future Parliament might restore that institution back to being able to give frank and fearless advice. [CDATA[// >