Policies

Climate Change

• Rapid ten year emergency transition to a near zero emission society
  • support workers, communities, companies and disadvantaged in transition
  • no offsetting
• 100% renewable based electricity grid and large energy efficiency roll out
  • large and small scale diverse renewable based small grid including demand management
  • solar access rights
  • energy efficiency retrofit of buildings and businesses
  • high energy efficiency standards for new buildings and energy using products
  • fund low income energy efficiency home upgrades
  • new minimum standards for rental buildings
• Transport system based on renewable electricity
  • massive roll out and upgrade of walking and cycling infrastructure and electrified rail (light, heavy, super fast, and freight)
  • expand rail in rural Victoria
  • light rail in for rural towns
  • support electric cars
  • limited sustainably grown bio fuels
• End native forest logging and broad scale land clearing
  • compensate land owners
• Create a global cooling
  • reducing methane production by reducing sheep and cattle consumption
  • sequestering atmospheric CO2 in soil and reforestation
  • use safe and reversible geo-engineering options such as painting roofs white
• Limit growth of cities and towns
  • create urban boundaries
  • protect and expand urban open and green space
  • reduce car use and dependency
• Support organic agriculture
  • support urban agriculture and farmers markets
  • ban suspect chemicals or chemicals already banned in other countries
  • chemical free water catchments
• Build community resilience to climate change
  • re-build community connections
  • support localised food production
• Reduce population to sustainable levels by allowing birth rates to decline and reduce immigration rates
• Accept regional climate refugees
• Transition to a non growth based economy
• Make climate criminals pay

Sustainability

• Biodiversity
  • increase no take marine parks to 15% of our coast line and coastal waters
  • fund restoration projects and revegetation projects
  • implement ecological burning regimes
• Waste
  • ban plastic carry bags
  • container deposit legislation
  • introduce requirement for compostable packaging
  • introduce requirement for compostable eating utensils etc at festivals
  • enforce a return to manufacturer of electronic waste
• Pollution
  • ban industrial release of carcinogens or highly toxic material
  • move car fleet to zero emissions over ten years
  • ban smoking in public places
• Genetic Engineering
  • make GE seed and plant sellers responsible for the cost of any genetic pollution and removal of any GE modified organisms that escape into the environment

Politics

• Clean politics
  • hold candidates and parties accountable for action on climate change
  • no political deals: preference on policies and track record