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Candidate for Charlton
About
Ian McKenzie is a small business owner and operator who lives in Eraring on the western side of Lake Macquarie. He and his life partner are consulting arborists who work in Lake Macquarie, Central Coast and the Lower Hunter to maintain the quality of trees in the urban environment. He has two adult daughters.
Ian has tertiary qualifications and extensive experience in arboriculture and planning.
Nearly 20 years of active involvement in the Greens, including 9 years as a Greens councillor, provides a solid base for Ian to represent the community with Greens policies and positions in the Charlton electorate.
He has a long history as a campaigner working to improve our environment, including working for Landcare, Greening Australia and The Wilderness Society.
Currently he is a local government representative on the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council. His current interest and campaign focus is urban forests
To contact the Charlton campaign please email charlton@greens.org.au or call Ian on 0414 682 001
Policies
More and more Australians are realising The Greens are a genuine alternative to the major parties. The Greens will work with local communities to ensure:
- Australia implements fair and effective solutions to climate change. The Greens have proposed an interim carbon tax as a solution to the impasse on Labor’s ineffective emissions trading scheme.
- The Lake Macquarie region must be part of Australia’s response to climate change by implementing a planned transition to renewable energy. Clean energy investment can reinvigorate the region by providing a jobs boom.
- proper investment must be made in public services like education, health, and public transport, to support people across the Lake Macquarie region.
- refugees are afforded justice and treated with compassion
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