North Sydney Independents are backing long-time Lane Cove resident Victoria Davidson in the safe Liberal seat,which has a 14 per cent margin,as teal candidates turn their focus to NSW ahead of the election in March.
The group,which found Tink and then resourced much of her successful bid to oust former North Sydney MP Trent Zimmerman at the federal election,is targeting state seats that fall in that electorate,which include Lane Cove,North Shore and Willoughby.
Simon Holmes a Court’s Climate 200 group hasalso endorsed Joeline Hackman who founded the 2000-strong Northern Beaches War on Waste community group,inspired by the ABC TV show.
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While NSW’s emissions targets are much more ambitious than those of their former federal colleagues,independents,including Davidson,are convinced that the state is still failing in many other areas of environmental protection,including logging native forests.
“We know that climate is very important to this electorate. We know this Coalition government did better than the past federal government and a lot of people,me included,think Matt Kean has done a good job around climate,but one minister in a government is not enough,” she said.
“There have been 26 coal and gas approvals in NSW since the Paris Agreement,11 of those under Matt Kean ... we also know there is some deal between Nats and Liberals about koala habitat. It has come up twice,it will come up a third time.”