Amelia Telford is a Bundjalung and South Sea Islander woman and the founder of Seed – a climate justice campaign run by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. Amelia joins Amy McQuire to discuss the Seed’s recent climate summit down in Sydney.
Specifically, they discuss the over $7 billion in subsidies the federal government has given to fossil fuel industries. Seed is currently running a petition against this. You can find out more here.
The petition reads:
“We are calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to rule out any Federal Government investment, subsidies or royalty free periods for any new coal and unconventional gas projects.
As Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the First peoples of this land, we have a responsibility and a right to look after country as our people have for generations.
We have lived sustainably off this land since time immemorial. It is an unbroken legacy of the most successful sustainability this world has ever known. It is one unbroken chain and we refuse to be the link that breaks. This is why as young people we know we cannot sit by, we must rise to this challenge and take action.”
