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‘People’s Jury’ on
local housing crisis
Mackellar MP Dr Sophie
Scamps will hold a one-day
People’s Jury to hear from the
people of her electorate about
solutions to the housing
crisis. The event, on June 15,
will involve 30 people from
Mackellar spending a day
with experts to help come
up with policy ideas that Dr
Scamps can take to Canberra.
It will use an innovative
process called “deliberative
democracy” where members
are selected to match
the demographics of the
Mackellar community and
they will be helped by a range
of experts to formulate policy
ideas through consensus.
“The housing crisis is hitting
people hard across the
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Youth paddle-out for change
More than 150 people joined Independent
MP Dr Sophie Scamps for a paddle-out
at Mona Vale Beach last month to call for the
Federal Government to end PEP-11.
This was a youth-led event, organised by a
group of young locals. Dr Scamps said it was
clear from the turnout that young people
wanted their voices heard on action on climate
change.
Youth activist Anjali Sharma spoke about
the concept of a duty of care bill to protect
younger generations, which Dr Scamps
wants to see enshrined into our environment
and climate laws.
“It is clear that young people care deeply
about climate action,” said Dr Scamps. “We
are creating their future right now and they
deserve to be heard. The Duty of Care Bill is
how we make sure their future wellbeing is
considered.”
“The idea of the Duty of Care is to ensure
that the interests of younger and future generations
are considered by lawmakers when
they approve fossil fuel projects or pass laws
that will have long-term consequences,” she
said.
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