Independent candidate Pennie Scott is running for the Riverina seat in the next Federal election. She has several policies and visions she aims to achieve if she wins.

She is a self described child of the Riverina area, “Rural living is my preferred style to continually learn from our landscapes and the creative, resilient, innovative and loyal people who share these places to live, love and work.” “Agriculture is my passion, especially the ‘culture’ and the diversity contained within. At the age of 14 a question came to me; ‘why do we have to clear all the natural ecosystems in order to grow foods and fibres?

Why can’t they be grown in harmony?” “Twenty-five years later, that question was finally answered and the start of research projects and the gaining of academic degrees. This has enabled and developed regenerative farming practices to (literally) grow in harmony with Nature, for the benefit of all who live here.”

Pennie has a list of policies she would like to see implemented. They include “Effective Climate Action. She said. “The Liberal, Labor and especially the National Party are in the tightly held grip of the fossil-fuel industry (FFI). Their continual acceptance of political donations and appointments of FFI executives in Minister’s staff and retiring politicians as lobbyists for the FFI demonstrates these relationships are cemented together.

The only way to break this destructive-to-our-planet nexus is to vote them OUT and elect Independents committed to creating a viable and beautiful future for the next ten generations.”

Some immediate actions she aims to implement include

-Repeal all licenses and grants to coal-seam-gas fracking and coal mines – Beetaloo Basin. – No more licenses or exploration permits to be granted.

– Australian government to facilitate world leadership in genuine green energies.

– Australian government to facilitate world leadership in genuine green manufacturing.

– Mining to no longer classified as Significant State Developments (NSW).

– No mining or CSG over aquifers. We will hear more from Pennie and all of the other candidates as they make announcements and release their policies.

The election date is yet to be called.