Thursday night’s Northside community forum was a great success with a wonderful turnout from across the community. Meredith Hunter MLA and Mary Porter MLA were both clearly committed to serious action on climate change and gave genuine, thoughtful responses to the many and varied questions raised by the community. The night was opened with a speech by Tony Kevin which outlined why action at the local level is so important. For those who missed it, a copy of his speech can be found here.
Building on the momentum of the Northside forum, Southside Seechange will be hosting a second community forum on Tuesday the 13th of July at 7pm at St James Church, 40 Gillies St, Curtin. Several Southside MLAs will be on hand to answer all your questions so please do make a mark of it in your diaries and come along to what looks to be another great night.
Finally a big congratulations to SEE-Change for all the work they put into the Northside forum and all the work they are putting into the upcoming Southside one.
We’re finally officially off and running! And doesn’t it feel good? The media launch was a huge success with a wonderful group of young kids sending a strong message to our elected representatives that we need to act now to secure their future. We got coverage in the Canberra Times, Canberra City Weekly, The Chronicle, 666, 2CH and Canberra FM.
Building on this success we will be holding the first of our community forums (co-hosted with SeeChange) this coming Thursday (24th of June) at the Holy Covenant Church in Cook. Meredith Hunter MLA and Mary Porter MLA will be there to answer your questions so please come along and give your concerns a public voice. The forum will begin at 7:30pm and should finish up somewhere between 9pm and 9:30pm. The address is 89 Dexter Street Cook.
After much excitement and anticipation we will be celebrating our media launch this Wednesday (the 16th of June) at 9.15am outside the Legislative Assembly. We would love nothing more than for you to come along and join the fun. We would especially like to encourage children and young people to join us as it is this generation that will be most effected by the decisions that our elected representatives are making now. It will be loads of fun and we would love to see you there. So if you would like to get your beautiful face in the paper and on the nightly news, please come meet outside the ACT legislative assembly in Civic. While there is no need to RSVP we would really love if you could email us at info@love40percent.org if you are able to bring along any children.
Despite the miserable weather, our public awareness blitz last weekend was a great success so we decided to do it all again. World Environment Day is this Friday (4th of June) and the Canberra Conservation Council has organised an environment stall and music at Garema Place Civic for the lunchtime crowds. What better place to spread the 40% love? We’ll be handing out fliers and collecting petition signatures between 11am and 1:30pm. If you would like to help out with this please email info@love40percent.org or reply in the comments to this post.
In other news, we’ve been totally blown away by the size of the response to our callout for knitters, so we’ve taken a little longer to get in touch than we anticipated. But fear not, plans are afoot and soon knitting needles across Canberra will be chiming together like a thousand tiny bells each calling our city’s leaders into action.
Finally, our next meeting will be held on Monday the 7th of June from 6.30 pm in room Moran G010 at the ANU.
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