A group of concerned Castlemaine and Bendigo community members connected with the people-powered ‘Move Beyond Coal’ movement staged a lively and loud ‘DJ Albo’ themed dance party at the office of Bendigo Federal MP Lisa Chesters last Wednesday.
The movement seeks action to eliminate the extraction and burning of fossil fuels and donned ‘Anthony Albanese’ and ‘Gina Rinehart’ masked avatars to accompany delivery of a letter to the office of the local federal MP.
The group is calling on the Albanese government to fulfill its election promises to strengthen our what they describe as our ‘broken’ environment laws this year to keep us safe from the dangers of climate change and immediately cease approval of more coal and fossil gas projects.
The group says Gina Rinehart and other mining billionaires are personally lobbying Prime Minister Albanese to weaken environment law reform and stop a climate trigger being put into the nation’s environment laws, namely the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, which is currently under review.
“We need to demonstrate strong community support for a climate trigger. That’s why in the week before the legislation goes to the senate we’re taking action at ALP offices throughout Australia while our MPs are back in their electorates,” a spokesperson said.
