It is with tremendous honour and with a sense of responsibility that I take this place in parliament as a custodian of the vote of the people of Clark.
Nursing, counselling and fostering have all been eye openers for me, highlighting the suffering people experience under the weight of inequality.
I know there is one thing we can do: agree on the value and iconic nature of Tasmania's environment.
When science tells us we need to be protecting carbon stores and intact forests, we have Labor and Liberal politicians in a race to the bottom. It’s climate madness.
The Liberals’ decision to remove protections on tens of thousands of hectares of high conservation value forest and hand them to industry for logging is appalling. This is devastating but, despite the climate crisis, not surprising.
Models for probable maximum precipitation that engineers use for designing large dams and other infrastructure haven't been updated for 20 years.
Tasmania's nationally contracted aerial firefighting fleet is potentially on the mainland for months.
Labor and the Liberals have worked together to vote down a Greens’ motion to declare a climate emergency
The latest assessment from the IPCC of the total loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic tells us that it might be gone completely by 2030.
For me, personally, in 2020 when the bushfires were raging across eastern Australia that was a real wake-up call.