Shawn Price (Ungrouped Independent)
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b_auspolShawn Price (Ungrouped Independent)
Website: https://www.drshawnprice.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Price/61571789398401/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drshawnprice
Shawn Price has a PhD in science focused on climate change research and has a strong family connection to the Australian Army, including being a Reservist himself.
Unsurprisingly, one of his main policy areas is climate change. Price wants climate action, a quick energy transition to renewables by 2035, focus on becoming a renewable energy exporter to Asia and in supplying green hydrogen for power, and Australia providing international leadership on action against climate change.
He’s also focused on affordable housing and the cost of living. He wants to limit housing purchases by large investors or overseas buyers, strengthen renters rights, and look to Singapore and Germany for ideas of how to make housing more affordable and increase supply. In terms of other costs, he wants cheaper energy (fund renewables!), more focus on healthy locally grown food in diets, and more preventative healthcare.
Price does have thoughts about COVID, but interestingly they’re about preparedness for future pandemics, by building a “pandemic proof healthcare system”. More stockpiles of supplies, improved pathogen surveillance, more coordination with the WHO, and more funding to make Australia a world leader in global vaccine development.
Price wants an Australian space economy! He thinks we should be more involved as a launch site (with locally controlled launch systems) and should get into building more satellites. He also thinks we should prepare for future space mining.
Yes, Price is very much a futurist. He would like regulations for ethical AI development, and better cybersecurity for Australia.
And finally: Price wants an extra, ‘77th’ senate seat for “the planet and future generations”. He thinks this would be a role looking at global issues from within parliament for the rest of parliament (aka his list of policies, basically). Personally, that doesn’t actually sound like a senator, that sounds like a minister or an advisory role, but I’m not the innovator this guy is (is he aware of the not so dearly departed Flux or Senator Online?)
I think this is a very bold platform. I also think Price is completely unaware of the constitutionality of what he’s proposing with this 77th senate seat (for him).
Website: https://www.drshawnprice.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Price/61571789398401/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drshawnprice
Shawn Price has a PhD in science focused on climate change research and has a strong family connection to the Australian Army, including being a Reservist himself.
Unsurprisingly, one of his main policy areas is climate change. Price wants climate action, a quick energy transition to renewables by 2035, focus on becoming a renewable energy exporter to Asia and in supplying green hydrogen for power, and Australia providing international leadership on action against climate change.
He’s also focused on affordable housing and the cost of living. He wants to limit housing purchases by large investors or overseas buyers, strengthen renters rights, and look to Singapore and Germany for ideas of how to make housing more affordable and increase supply. In terms of other costs, he wants cheaper energy (fund renewables!), more focus on healthy locally grown food in diets, and more preventative healthcare.
Price does have thoughts about COVID, but interestingly they’re about preparedness for future pandemics, by building a “pandemic proof healthcare system”. More stockpiles of supplies, improved pathogen surveillance, more coordination with the WHO, and more funding to make Australia a world leader in global vaccine development.
Price wants an Australian space economy! He thinks we should be more involved as a launch site (with locally controlled launch systems) and should get into building more satellites. He also thinks we should prepare for future space mining.
Yes, Price is very much a futurist. He would like regulations for ethical AI development, and better cybersecurity for Australia.
And finally: Price wants an extra, ‘77th’ senate seat for “the planet and future generations”. He thinks this would be a role looking at global issues from within parliament for the rest of parliament (aka his list of policies, basically). Personally, that doesn’t actually sound like a senator, that sounds like a minister or an advisory role, but I’m not the innovator this guy is (is he aware of the not so dearly departed Flux or Senator Online?)
I think this is a very bold platform. I also think Price is completely unaware of the constitutionality of what he’s proposing with this 77th senate seat (for him).
