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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · 22d

Incredible people doing incredible things!

Good Omen Goodeze is a community movement that crafts comfort items for patients and families in the ACT's health system - bringing joy, beauty and hope for people when they need it.

It's the people that makes Canberra such a special place to live 🫶

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climatecouncil.org.au @climatecouncil.org.au · 22d

A new study from a group of scientists, including Climate Council fellow Dr Wesley Morgan, has found a way to calculate the climate impact of individual fossil fuel projects.

We must urgently cut climate pollution to ensure a safer future for vulnerable communities and generations to come.

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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Sep 17

Our housing system is broken and today we take a step to fixing it.

This is a win for the whole community who backed the calls, and have now shifted the ACT Government to finally recognise housing as a social good like education and healthcare, rather than a commodity to generate wealth.

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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Sep 17

That means every decision about housing must now pass the test of fairness and affordability.

It means renters and residents can legally challenge bad laws or government inaction.

It puts people first.

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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Sep 17

BREAKING: Housing is now a human right in the ACT! The Greens introduced legislation last year which passed in Parliament this afternoon.

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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Sep 9

Stocking up on Canberra's all natural, fertiliser made from food waste, Food2Soil! 🍏🪏🌱

It improves soil and plant health, strengthens our circular economy, and reduces overall waste and harmful additives to care for our planet 🫶

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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is beyond outrageous. The ACT Government knew a significant number of dragons had died earlier this year, yet didn't do everything they could to prevent an unnecessary development destroying one of their last habitats.

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/905282...

38 'critically endangered' lizards die at Tidbinbilla nature reserve

Predators were able to get into the pen.

www.canberratimes.com.au

Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Federal Labor Government needs to stop kicking people off the NDIS with no other support in place. Disability only exists because we have decision makers putting in policies that actively exclude people from being part of their community.

Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 4

And we call on the Federal Labor Government to urgently fix broken environmental laws before we see more native animals lost to unnecessary developments.
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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 4

Now, we call on the ACT Labor Government up their game and protect remaining natural temperate grassland habitat - otherwise there will be nowhere left in the wild to reintroduce dragons from the breeding program.
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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 4

In the three months since the election - and despite Labor claiming Australia voted for climate action and protecting the environment - they've approved the climate-wrecking extension of the dirty gas North West Shelf facility to 2070 and are now pushing the Earless Dragon towards extinction.
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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Federal Labor Government has time and time again sided with corporations over the very people and planet they were elected to stand up for.
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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 4

But instead Labor signed off the project with some conditions which are an attempt to buy the goodwill of the community.

Actions speak louder than words - and this not a one off but a trend.
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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is despite the hundreds of Canberrans who told the Labor government to save the dragon and stop the road development until mitigation measures were actually found to be effective and useful.
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Jo Clay MLA @joclaygreens.bsky.social · Aug 4

A pretty devastating blow for our community, environment and Canberra Earless Dragons today.

The Federal Labor Government has given the green light for the Canberra Airport's Northern Road Development which cuts right through key habitat for our little lizards.

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