Going The Extra Mile

Environmental Economics and the Fight for Goldstein


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Tim Wilson has served as the Federal Liberal Member for Goldstein since 2016, and is the Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. Tim the MP for Goldstein and is the Minister responsible for building Australia’s industrial future and driving job creation, while reducing our emissions. He is the only Member of the House of Representatives that has completed postgraduate studies in climate science, has studied ‘transitioning to a carbon neutral economy’ at Cambridge and carbon accounting at Murdoch University. He previously served as the Chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Committee on Economics. In that role he led a campaign against the Labor Party’s proposal to push hundreds of thousands of Australian retirees below the poverty line, and oversighted the implementation of the Hayne Royal Commission, including exposing industry super funds stealing and wasting member’s money. Tim was formerly Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner. In that role he worked with all layers of government to reform laws to stop and prevent terrorism and to improve economic opportunities for Indigenous Australians. Tim is a passionate person with a deep passion for everything our democracy has to offer.

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Going The Extra MileBy Sam Paynter