Below is a letter from ACT Director of Public Prosecution Shane Drumgold sent to ACT Chief Police Officer Neil Gaughan outlining evidence of corrupt police trying to stop rape charges against Bruce Lehrmann and police colluding with Lehrmann's lawyers during the rape trial. Last weekend we received our ten-thousandth donation from 8000 members from a very broad cross-section of Australian society. 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. If they dont know, they often ask Climate 200 or Cathy McGowans Community Independents Project. Theyre not down at the pub trying to work their way up the greasy pole of politics. Im not sure this is the forum for it. Weve been proactively reaching out to the AEC. Tom Connell: And Damian is staying in the role. Simon Holmes a Court: First, let me let me say that there are no difference-in-disclosure obligations on Climate 200, as there are for the major parties. aka Holmes Simon. He was co-founder of the Australian Wind Alliance and inaugural chair of the Melbourne Energy Institutes Advisory Board. We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our four Australian campuses stand. As Meg Lees said recently, in this decade it is the independents who will keep the bastards honest. But when the budget was announced, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg stretched that decade to 15 years, with only $199 million allocated over four years. Simon Holmes a Court: Well, certainly the passion is there, right? Listen and subscribe in your favourite podcast app (it's free). As Simon Holmes Court reflects, watching his father Robert Holmes Court take a daily shellacking from the media for what he did as Australia's original corporate raider stood him in good stead when it came to taking on the combined force of the Morrison government and the Murdochs. Next question is from Mark Kenny. We dont have any candidates. Simon Holmes Court (born 30 May 1972) is an Australian businessman and political activist. Now, this is a significant sum, but it pales into insignificance compared to the major parties. Secondly, it shows why: in these electorates, voters rank climate change the number one voting issue in majority of these electorates, and integrity in politics is usually second. So heres our challenge. // --> The reason we dont is because we are very rarely given any real choice. Simon has a Masters in Smug, the result of the enormous pile accumulated by his (late) billionaire corporate-raider daddy, Robert. Let me also welcome former independent Member for Indi Cathy McGowan, the pathfinder and inspiration to the community independents movement, and the former independent Senator for South Australia, Tim Storer. For example, few realise the role that Australia plays in the electric vehicle revolution. Simon Holmes Court is senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council, Australia is way behind on vehicle electrification, but there are solutions to help us catch up, As we kick off 2021, state governments are embracing decarbonisation to popular acclaim, We still feel that sense of helplessness and shame at what is being done in our name but weve played a part in bringing the plight of indefinitely detained asylum seekers to light, The federal governments increasingly desperate and ideological energy market interventions are costing us all, The call for technology before action is a specious distraction designed to paper over the plan to take no action, Lets come clean and let the public know that theres no domestic case for increasing gas extraction. Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. Because of my position here, I do get to ask the first one. The incumbent MPs say that they support climate action as their constituents want, but they never vote for it when it really counts. They were saying, Scott Morrison said to Kylea Tink directly, you dont matter. Meanwhile, another victim of the teal wave Jason Falinski found himself confronted with the bankroller-savant who helped start it all off, when he joined Climate 200 moneybags Simon Holmes a Court . We go above and beyond, as I said before. Initially, the government said it would invest that $2 billion over 10 years: $200 million a year in emissions reduction. However, given that the Treasurer himself has been known to personally call donors listed on our website and monster them, some have chosen simply to stop at complying with their legal disclosure requirements, as their right. As youve articulated: one, its a science based approach to climate change. And I think people are seeing that, and women are saying that that the political system has not been working for them. As a rule, RE zealots are not only stupid and selfish, they're invariably nasty and prone to fits of outrage and violence. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. And its kind of nice to have a guardian angel because it means that we we dot every I and cross every T. Now hes hes made spurious claims to the AEC, which they have dismissed. These candidates are genuine community leaders, not career politicians. Right? But the question is, again, why is it that if you want the major parties to follow rules of donation, why dont you simply follow the same rules that you would like to see, behind the David and Goliath analogy. One of my favorite contemporary thinkers is Lawrence Lessig at the Harvard Law School. Watergate, the $80 million sale of water that doesnt exist to a Cayman Islands company established by a man who is now a Minister in the government. Greg Brown: Well, Im asking which party is better on climate change, integrity and gender equality. I also acknowledge Meg Lees, the the former leader of the Democrats and a member of Climate 200s Advisory Council. Ms Holmes a Court was contacted for comment and she responded that "we do indeed wish to keep our personal lives out of the media". Dylan John Horridge. Fifteen years later to. Zali Steggall effectively blamed the accountant, Damien Hodgkinson. It comes from the fact that they have been abandoned. If we were to try to undermine independents, not only would none of them want anything to do with us, but we would we would be living a lie and I cant, I cant do that. Guest: Founder of Climate 200, Simon Holmes Court. If you had the same kind of transparency on the $56 million from the undisclosed donation from the Liberal Party or the $2.8 million from Frydenbergs Kooyong 200 group. If you live in electorate with a community independent and youre able, volunteer your time to the campaign, hang a campaign sign on your front fence or in your apartment window. 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,. We have a government that seeks power without purpose. 1.45 pm. Simon Holmes a Court at the Global Energy Summit . I start by acknowledging that today we meet on the lands of the Ngunnawal people and I pay my respects to their elders past and present. So, we havent quite got to all the questions that wed like. Ft. 1909 E 95th St, Los Angeles, CA 90002. So what kind of a party can operate without a single candidate? These candidates speak for themselves. And its estimated that there are currently 10,000 actively engaged volunteers. The truth, by the governments own numbers: real emissions have fallen by less than 1 percent between 2013 and 2020. Climate 200 founder and Cleantech investor Simon Holmes Court says the upcoming COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is actually about reducing emissions by 2030 in line with the Paris . Get the latest news from thewest.com.au in your inbox. Here it is. (Photo by Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire) (Icon Sportswire via AP Images) - 2NHG4T8 from Alamy's library of millions of high . And I say that striking at the root means getting people into Parliament who are strong, independent and ready to hold government accountable. How many Labor or Liberal Party electorate launches will attract as many enthusiastic supporters? [CDATA[// >