As odour continues to overwhelm the Moorooka and Salisbury suburbs, local noxious odour action group is alarmed at the bizarre extension that’s been given by Council to EGR. The Salisbury Moorooka NoxiousRead More…
This week a group of concerned Moorooka residents formed the Salisbury Moorooka Noxious Odour Action Group (SM-NOAG) to demand action to stop the solvent odour overpowering the local area. SM-NOAG spokesperson CecRead More…
Today I wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Australia for the very first time. You can too at http://www.pm.gov.au/contact-your-pm. Dear Mr Abbott, I am 37 and have been voting for almostRead More…
“It’s like, it’s just I got kinda distracted.” Ahhh just channelling some Ani Difranco banter circa Living in Clip. The end of a federal election is always hard. As a Greens candidate,Read More…
Dear LNP, What? During the G20 you’re banning: Kites? Canoes? Face paint? Big placards? Green Eggs & Ham? “You would not like them here or there. You would not like them anywhere!!”Read More…
Today I visited the Coles Woolloongabba store near my workplace to purchase a free-range chicken and some salad items for lunch. At the counter I presented my green bag. Instead of usingRead More…
Thank you for your support (I thought this photo I took today was very apt!)!! On September 7, 2013 a record number of volunteers supported the Yeerongpilly Greens branch in the seat of Moreton.Read More…
I am absolutely appalled to have discovered that this flyer has been circulating in the Moreton electorate. On his facebook page Malcolm is denying involvement and suggesting people ‘take up any complaintsRead More…
Liberal Party apparatchik (my assumption given the constant raucous applause for everything Malcolm Cole said) were an absolute disgrace in the audience tonight at the Powerhouse forum. A group behind me sighedRead More…
All my love to Norma Nord’s family. The amazing Norma passed away last week – aged 98? Norma was a member of the Bayside Branch with me when I first joined theRead More…
August 12, 7pm, Diversity Forum – Sunnybank RSL Hall, Organised by a private constituent. All welcome. Free. August 15, 6.30pm, Debate – Shangrila Chinese Restaurant, Organised by Sunnybank Chamber of Commerce. All welcome.Read More…
I’m a bit cranky. :/ I’m tired of hearing Labor supporters defend Rudd’s asylum seeker policy and framing the Greens policy as idealistic and unrealistic! This is absolutely ludicrous! And utterly falseRead More…
Moreton is Queensland’s most marginal seat and, when I ran in 2010, so many Moreton residents voted Greens that we received an 8.7% swing, making it the highest swing to any candidate inRead More…
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These guys call themselves ‘conservatives’?? I don’t want progressive policy in the area of refugees!! I simply want to revert back to the 1970s when asylum seekers were processed in the Australian communityRead More…
My goodness, a Newman Government Minister finally proposes something wonderful and it gets knocked on the head by Newman, with rhetoric about the ‘cost of living’. This week Queensland Government Environment MinisterRead More…
INVITE YOUR FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK! I’ve decided to incite some compassion! Come along to Moorooka on Saturday morning. We’ll be getting down and crafty, making cards to send to refugees in detention.Read More…
Dear Editor, As the Greens Federal Candidate for Moreton, I naturally read your election update with interest about how Queensland’s marginal seats are likely to fare now that Kevin Rudd has returnedRead More…
To all the householders in Moreton who, like I did, received the ultra paranoid, racist flyer from the climate skeptic in today’s letterbox, please let me take this opportunity to remind youRead More…
I’ve managed to stay quiet throughout this whole debacle so far (bar some talking to the TV in the comfort of my own loungeroom), but listening to Tony Abbott is making meRead More…