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Getting In On The Act F+E Con 2024 Video.m4a

16 Jul 2024

This makes me think of that movie title: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.' How can something be applied to all of those things at the same time? I think the the language that our superb keynote speakers used was about the the empowering nature of tools, and it's it's the possibility of applying to everything that is the secret to it. [...] So it has a huge impact and, of course, it brings into play the importance of recognising the Rights that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have to the natural resources and the well-being of those natural resources very much linked to the well-being of the people themselves. [...] That we follow the road rules we we follow the laws and regulations that are in place but are we going to do that as a global citizen or are we going to be the polluter that affects our neighbors and fellow countries who are more vulnerable I think we need to think about that and that global citizenship has a lot of implications not just for climate but for all sorts of things it's interesting whe. [...] Would you hope that the Human Rights Act would force them to make their position known about the Human Rights Act? I actually think one of the things that we've had to debate for decades has been far too often we talk about the nonsense that's been peddled and then we're responding to the nonsense, and that's a lost opportunity to talk about the possibilities, the opportunities. [...] [ 00:48:25 ] The challenge is mobilisation and the challenge is not to look at conservative MPs and others and say, 'Why aren't you supporting this?' The answer is to say, 'Mobilise' and make the point to the MP that it's actually in their interests to drop the negativity and to see that supporting this act is going to help them as well.

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xavierliu

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15
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Australia

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