From:- Mrs. Kim Bax, 77 Orion Road, Cedar Vale, Qld 4285

To:- cc list below

Re:- News update re my Invitation to my local Federal candidates
(Forde electorate), e.g. Wendy Creighton (Liberal), Hajnal Ban
(National), Brett Raguse (ALP) & Andy Grodecki (Green), to a
local "You Tube" interview on CLIMATE CHANGE

Goodmorning again,

Here's the recent invitation in question:-

http://www.kimspages.org/dailymusings.htm#emailforde

And here's my press release about it:-

http://www.kimspages.org/dailymusings.htm#pressrelease24aug

. . . and Hajnal Ban (National), has already accepted. I look
forward to hearing from Wendy, Brett and Andy soon. Further, I'll be
out and about this week with my camera (talking to local people), and
hope to have some interviews posted on-line by the weekend. I'll
also be speaking (tomorrow), with all the local press in Forde (and
thus following up on my press release), re photo ops of me and others
out and about with our cameras. In the interim, I think this news
article to-day is very relevant to my invitation, and to my
circulated press comments (which is why I'm taking the time to pass
it on):-

The Age, Fairfax

Voters 'up for grabs' on climate change
August 27, 2007 - 3:19PM

Swinging voters in marginal seats saw little difference between the
federal government and Labor on climate change policy, a poll has
found.

The independent Climate Institute said the survey it commissioned
showed that Labor could not assume it had an advantage on the issue,
and gave the Coalition an opportunity to regain the initiative.

The poll of nine marginal electorates in NSW, Queensland and South
Australia also found a large majority of voters wanted targets set for
greenhouse gas cuts and strongly favoured renewable energy.

Forty-two per cent of respondents thought Labor was the better party
for climate change, compared with 20 per cent for the Coalition and
38 per cent who believed they were the equal.

But among swinging voters, 68 per cent could not distinguish between
the two sides, while those with a preference favoured Labor by 19 per
cent to the Coalition's 13 per cent.

Fifty-seven per cent of such respondents would support action on
climate change at the ballot box and 58 per cent said their vote
would be influenced by a policy to reduce greenhouse gases within
five years.

Institute chief executive John Connor said the poll was a wake-up
call for both major parties.

"It's up for grabs really in some of these marginal seats," Mr Connor
said.

"There's a hunger for decisive action on climate change."

Eighty-six per cent believed Australia should set greenhouse targets
and 64 per cent said they would be more likely to vote for a party
which had them.

Labor has committed itself to a 60 per cent target by 2050 but has
shied away from fixing shorter-term targets until at least next year.

The federal government said it would not set any targets until
economic modelling was completed in 2008.

"People want to see action and they want to see clear greenhouse
pollution reduction targets in the next five years," Mr Connor said.

He said the message for the government was that aversion to hard
targets was not going to win them many votes.

Labor, meanwhile, appeared to have lost some momentum by failing to
come out with any major climate change policies in the past few
months.

"There's no room for complacency in that regard."

Seventy-nine per cent of respondents believed all electricity should
come from clean energy and 62 per cent were likely to vote for party
which ensured that goal.

The poll also showed that climate change would be a major issue at the
federal election, with 62 per cent indicating that it would influence
their vote.

The survey was conducted on August 11-12 on 1,680 voters in the
electorates of Bennelong, Parramatta and Lindsay in NSW, Bonner,
Bowman and Petrie in QLD and Hindmarsh, Kingston and Makin in SA.

It had an indicative margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Voters-up-for-grabs-on-climate-
change/2007/08/27/1188067004852.html

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