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“The Australian government committed $7.1bn over the next 11 years to the new energy security and regional development plan. The deputy prime minister specifically confirmed … that Mudgee and Lithgow would be a part of that plan.”Covering the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury regions of NSW, Macquarie was one of the electorates hardest hit by the black summer bushfires.“We also get landslides with heavy rains that often cut off the railway and the highway.
Tony Hickey from the Greens said: “The Greens will … reach 100% renewable energy by 2030, phase out gas and coal while looking after coal communities, create a clean manufacturing renaissance, restore the land, electrifying homes and businesses, and preparing for climate impacts – all while walking alongside First Nations communities.”Located in the Gippsland region east of Melbourne, Monash is a largely rural electorate dependent on agriculture.
Liberal MP Russell Broadbent highlighted his party’s commitment to zero emissions by 2050 through their technology investment roadmap, with “more than $20bn of taxpayers’ money being spent on renewable energy”. “We’ve lived with a single water tank rationing water for years during drought, we’ve been forced to evacuate our home during fires, and we’ve been flooded multiple times with record level water rise,” said one resident.
Independent Carolyn “Caz” Heise said: “An immediate priority will be to better resource and train local emergency response units”. She also highlighted the need to decarbonise the economy.Alex, 21, is a student in the Queensland electorate of Dickson. His home town of Dayboro was hit badly by the recent floods.
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