My Commitment
We are facing a more volatile and changing climate, with more immediate and ambitious action required to address the climate risk.
Our response to climate change can’t be limited to adaptation and risk management – we need to prioritise mitigating the effects of climate change, while ensuring we deliver ecological and social climate justice.
The climate change issue is also a human rights issue, and I am committed to ensuring we take a human-rights-based approach to developing and implementing our climate response.
My Work in the Legislative Council
I have recently supported the call for an independent root-and-branch inquiry into the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Tasmania, to ensure Tasmania’s beautiful natural environment is being protected and preserved.
I have also questioned the government for the past five years on the long overdue Tasmanian State of the Environment Report, which has now been produced in September 2024.
Parliamentary and Community action
Fin Fish Inquiry
Fin Fish Inquiry 2019 - 22
In 2019, I chaired a sub-committee overseeing a Legislative Council inquiry into fin-fish farming.
We produced an Interim Report in 2020, with the Final Report being published in May, 2022.
The focus of the inquiry was on the legislative and regulatory arrangements relating to the industry.
The inquiry made 68 recommendations to the government which can be read here.
