Steve Georganas (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Jessica Bryson is a 12-year-old from Temple Christian College in my electorate of Adelaide. As part of the Raise Our Voice initiative, Jessica has asked me to read her speech. Her speech reads:

I am 12 years old; my name is Jessica and my goal is to have less climate change in the world, it's not too late to change our ways.

I want to see colourful nature and wildlife.

I want to see polar bears and other arctic animals.

But despite the protests, the people in power refuse to help.

In that entire 40 years all we have done to change is ban plastic straws, we need more solutions.

Personally, I believe most plastic packaging can easily be replaced with beeswrap (if not food items).

Most single used plastic items such as plastic spoons can be replaced with wood.

We also should stop mass producing plastic packaging and swap to beeswrap.

If we don't try to fix our past mistakes, the earth will continue to spiral out of control until it's too late. It's not too late yet, it will be soon.

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