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…
My naive and sappy open letter to Tony Abbott
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!
“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. Don’t ban Green Eggs & Ham! From G20 Sam.
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…
Coles, don’t force your plastic bags on me.
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…
10Sep/13
Thanks for your support.
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…
Appalling fundamentalism hits Moreton households
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…
Save Nyanda.
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…
Farewell Norma Nord, peace activist and greens stalwart
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…
Public Forums in Moreton
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…
Greens refugee solution not only compassionate, but practical and proven
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…
Vote 1 compassion in Moreton & volunteer today.
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…
Safer Alternatives to Boats – The Greens Plan Saves Lives
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When did it become OK to be mean?
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…
Here’s the cost of our living, Newman.
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…
Elissa Incites Compassion! Join Moreton Action to Show Support for Refugees!
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…
Letter to Ed – Queensland’s most marginal seats – The Courier-Mail
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…
Racist, climate skeptic, offensive codswallop!!
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…
Goodbye Abbott (you’re making my ears hurt)
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…
NDIS – Just make it bloody happen, people
Today I’m bloody angry. Herald Sun journalist Matt Young yesterday said: “How selfish of me to want to spend money that I’m working hard for on myself! To put clothes on myRead More…