Families are being hit with higher and higher energy bills. It's hard to spare an additional thought for the environment when hard-working families are trying their best to get by. We give fossil fuel companies (often overseas and paying little tax) billions in subsidies each year. Why aren't we investing in our local communities instead?

Investing towards locally owned renewable power solutions allows us to leverage new job opportunities for our region whilst giving households freedom of choice from the price gouging of energy companies. 

We export billions in iron-ore; however, there is a global push towards green steel. Forecasts expect iron-ore exports to decrease by $37 billion in 2022-23. Recent reports (Ernst & Young) have shown that investing in green steel could generate an additional $65 billion in annual export revenue and would create 25,000 manufacturing jobs in states like ours.

 Fossil fuel workers have spent the past few decades building an Australia that has allowed us to do many wonderful things, and to them, my message is 'no worker left behind'. For those in existing industries that are being phased out, it is imperative that workers are trained and redeployed into our workforce at similar pay rates instead of being abandoned.