The Greens: Peter Freewater

My name is Peter Freewater and I want your help to win the seat of Robertson and become the first Green in Australian history to be elected to the House of Representatives.

If elected I will fight to make the region a focus for the renewable energy industries; to retrain coal workers and provide new long-term jobs for locals.

I will fight for more rail freight to take trucks off our roads; to stop Liberal party plans to carve up Brisbane Water National Park and turn the Peninsula into a new off-ramp for the F3; I'll fight for better bus services and reliable train services for commuters.

I'll fight for better hospital facilities, more doctors, more nurses, more beds and particularly more services for Woy Woy Hospital with a return of our rehabilitation unit.

I also intend to fight to get real action on climate change, to protect people rather than just confuse and tax them.

I have a unique vision for Gosford and the Peninsula: Brisbane Water National Park has the highest concentration of indigenous carvings to be found anywhere in the world and I want it declared a World Heritage Area.

I believe that we have a prosperous future as the ideal destination for nature-based tourism.

The Peninsula is surrounded by beautiful forests full of rare and endangered animals and plants.

We are surrounded by clean and sparkling waterways, complete with whales surfing beaches.

We also have a proud shipbuilding heritage.

The area should be developed using best-practice sustainable development, public transport and water sensitive urban design to create a truly beautiful place to live and work.

We should embrace our maritime heritage together with our natural and aboriginal heritage and create unique world-class tourist attractions on and around our waterways.

These are the kinds of developments that will create and sustain thousands of long-term jobs well into the future, especially for our young people, which so desperately need and deserve a brighter future, in contrast to the chronically high unemployment levels that they are currently suffering.

I believe in the public education system and believe that it should be supported by the government not undermined in favour of private schools.

I want to see an end to HECS and make higher education free so that our kids can have just as much hope for a brighter future as wealthier kids do.

As a councillor, I have already fought and won many battles for the Peninsula.

I continue to punch above my weight against inappropriate mining proposals, against dodgy development proposals and against the heavyweight politicians that would support them.

I am running as the Green's Candidate in Robertson because the Greens do not accept corporate donations; because of their strong track record fighting for the environment and for social justice issues.

I love the Peninsula, it's a great place to live and I believe that with your help I can make it even better.

Help us speak for you - for health, for schools and for the environment.

Peter Freewater The Greens