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It is a travesty that YOUNG PEOPLE had to take an Australian GOVERNMENT Minister to COURT - to FIGHT to have THEIR RIGHT to a SAFE, SUSTAINABLE future ACKNOWLEDGED and respected!
It is a REFLECTION on US as parents and grandparents that we have ELECTED Politicians so DEVOID of their RESPONSIBILITIES to the PEOPLE of our Country (but who defend CORPORATE 'Rights'!) that some of OUR CHILDREN (and an 86 year old Nun and former teacher, Sister Brigid Arthur who volunteered to be their litigation guardian) felt they had NO CHOICE as THEY cannot vote, to take a Govt Minister to COURT to FORCE her to CONSIDER their RIGHT to a safe FUTURE!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/27/australian-court-finds-government-has-duty-to-protect-young-people-from-climate-crisis And also attached to this article
How much has the 'Political Class' in Australia CHANGED from a time in past centuries when all over the Western World
"The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors." ~ Thomas Jefferson
and even LAST Century when OUR Prime Ministers BELIEVED that
"The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others." ~ Bob Hawke
"Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech." ~ Robert Menzies
Yet today our Politicians make POLICIES that have NO CONCERN or PLANNING for our RESPONSIBILITY towards future generations and THEIR RIGHTS as Australian Citizens - like Twentieth Century Governments DID for US!
And as PARENTS and GRANDPARENTS we ALLOW and ENABLE them to get away with it!
Things we must do to PROTECT future generations..
Only VOTE for Politicians who CARE about the FUTURE of our WORLD and our CHILDREN by FINDING out HOW our Politicians VOTE:
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/
And ONLY ELECT those who CARE..
Ensuring we support ETHICAL Politicians who try hard by bringing forward Legislation as in this Bill of Rights intended ONLY to PROTECT us as Citizens of our Country and the world
We must also support the kind of INTEGRITY BODY that WILL include a Politicians CODE of Conduct and PROTECT Whistleblowers trying to TELL the TRUTH.. IF Politicians DO not have ETHICS and INTEGRITY - INVESTIGATE and illuminate wrong-doing.
And if it's CORRUPT?
Ensure Politicians and others are CHARGED and if PROVEN - jailed and removed from our Parliament!
https://www.change.org/HainesIntegrityCommissionCodeofConduct