Simon Holmes Court: 'If it works, the payoff will be enormous' VTO founder, businessman and Global Surf Industries owner Mark Kelly, 57, had been a classic swinging voter, backing the Liberals at state level but unable to support Abbott, he says. On Thursday 14 October 2021 Holmes Court appeared on Q+A alongside Liberal MP Tim Wilson, Labor MP Chris Bowen, Amelia Telford (Director of SEED Indigenous Youth Climate Network) and Anne Baker (Mayor of Issac Regional Council). Because while Holmes Court is a quintessential brahmin, his motivations dont differ fundamentally from a cross-section of activists Good Weekend speaks to for this piece. Less than 24 hours later, I was kicked out of the Kooyong200 club. In many ways its the other way round, Harris says. But I think COVID makes it a little bit different. Twitter played an important role in Holmes Courts political awakening too. Last election, two seats flipped from Labor to Liberal in Qld. I was 18 when he died, he says. His mother, Janet, just found him there, wide-eyed and conscious, his right index finger blasted to the bone. How much wind the governments announcement of its net zero 2050 target takes out of the sails of this very recently coordinated movement is also being decided in real time.
Simon Holmes a Court - National Climate Emergency Summit, Australia On Leonards Hill, just outside the town of Daylesford famed for its natural springs stand two wind turbines that not only power the local area, but have also added substantial power to the community-owned renewable energy movement in Australia. Simon Holmes Court was the founding chairman of Hepburn Wind. We got 300 people from 79 electorates. Holmes Court understands the size of the challenge, but he believes change is within reach, and he might help write a new political history for the country. His father, Robert Holmes Court, who died at 53 in 1990 from a heart attack, became Australias first billionaire as a corporate raider across mining, media, real estate, and famously tried to buy BHP.
simon holmes a court daylesford But unlike the Greens or One Nation, which have traditionally achieved Senate seats, the independents have a shot at winning lower-house seats because of preferences, which is how McGowan got Indi and Sharkie got Mayo.. So basically, without spending a dollar, we were able to rely on peer-to-peer communication; people talking to their friends.. We joked at the start about calling it Climate 2000, but thats already happened, Holmes Court says. It was a f---ing awful experience. Bernard figured that if they adopted the Danish model, where the windfarm was smaller, and the local community owned it, support for clean, clean wind energy would grow. Its a model minted next door in Warringah, where a T-shirt, and the all-important database that trailed in its wake, drove the 2019 Vote Tony Out (VTO) campaign, which itself spearheaded a loose association of grassroots anti-Abbott groups dubbed the Coalition of the Willing. Give me two months to see the campaigns, because if you dont have the candidates and the campaigns, Simons funding is going to make no difference at all., Even the woman dubbed the godmother of the movement, Cathy McGowan, counsels caution. Fairfax Photo Library. Holmes Court on his farm in Daylesford.
Simon Holmes Court - Q+A The seemingly mild-mannered and slightly awkward Holmes Court doesnt take very kindly to the question. I just remember the environmental devastation, puddles of algae and no regrowth, and the feeling of being cheated; that we were being lied to.. To me, it just provides the electorate with even greater opportunity to observe that this government is still out of step with community wishes and whats going on in the rest of the world. That was very significant for me. To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times. Authorised by Bragg, its the latest move in a concerted effort to recapture a seat that, once blue-ribbon, has become a bellwether. Two of my family members [he is married to Katrina, the sister of filmmaker Karl von Moller, with four children] were seriously ill, it was the most shit f---ing time ever, so Josh can f--- off, excuse me. Again, that disaffection didnt quite carry him to the other side. C200 is also considering funding independents in Sydneys Hume, held by the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor; and in Victoria, in the seats of Goldstein (held by Tim Wilson), Flinders (Health Minister Greg Hunt) and Kooyong (Frydenberg). By now our bento boxes have arrived: deluxe for me and seafood for Holmes Court. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It was shut down in 1934, and has lain dormant ever since. I joined the Liberal Party because I was interested in reform. Simon Holmes Court: If it works, the payoff will be enormous, PMs mid-October negotiations with the Nationals. Holmes Court was a driving force behind the country's first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind. But also because he felt like I was investing all of my resources and potential in something that was fascinating but not the main game. Its very possible the independents will hold the balance of power. On 18 May Holmes Court launched a defamation action against The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail news outlets and is also considering suing Liberal MP Dave Sharma, who accused Holmes Court of a Holocaust slur. Simon Holmes Court: Every week I speak to someone who has made a major career change or left their career and are focusing on nothing but this climate problem. Credit:Kristoffer Paulsen. Introducing Simon Holmes a Court. Simon is the founder of Climate 200, a group of more than 7,300 Australians working to help community-backed independent candidates contest the recent federal election. And with Hepburn shire adding its name to a growing list of councils shooting to reduce their emissions to zero, every bit counts. Weve also got people who used to work for the Liberals and Nationals.
Simon Holmes Court on his 40-hecatre farm in Daylesford, Victoria, 2021 History is written by the winner. On the other, though, has been the growing profile of an estimated 30-plus activist groups. It was the cross-bench that gave Gillard the backbone to take action on climate change. If you took a side-access track and went 200 metres off the road, though, it was clear-felled, hollowed out in the middle. Simon was a driving force behind the country's first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind, near Daylesford in Central Victoria. Theres a few people it really helps to have the narrative that We love coal. For those who do, it will be a seat-by-seat fight, determined by the microclimate of each electorate, the calibre of the candidate and the stature and performance of the incumbent (the polarising Abbott, and Sophie Mirabella in Indi, were seen as pivotal to previous success by independents in those seats). The AFRs Aaron Patrick thinks Turnbull is pulling my strings. On one side of that equation has been the international pressure the government faced to announce a 2050 net zero goal as the price of entry to the Glasgow climate summit that starts this weekend, mirrored locally by everyone from the Business Council of Australia to mining billionaire Andrew Forrest. He is the son of Australia's first billionaire Robert Holmes Court, and convenor of Climate 200.
Simon Goff & Katie Melua - Tbilisi Airport (Official Audio) I was hopeful, Tink says. If anything were like a political venture capitalist, your readers would understand that, he says. So far, C200 has matched $100,000 in local donations in North Sydney, where former charities CEO Kylea Tink last month announced she will take on Liberal moderate incumbent Trent Zimmerman; $60,000 in Wentworth (Sharma) and $51,000 in Mackellar (held by Liberal Jason Falinski), both Sydney seats for which candidates are expected to be announced soon. But there are no more strings attached.
Simon Holmes Court - National Press Club of Australia In the world of a decade ago, they might have been the next generation of Liberal, Labor or Greens candidates. What strings have I got? I want it to be six to 10 times bigger and more effective, he says of C200s campaign for the next federal election, due by the end of May.
Introducing Simon Holmes a Court. - Climate & Peace Forum Sign up here. Please try again later. It seems almost as personal for Holmes Court when it comes to Taylor, with whom he had a disagreement at a Politics at the Pub event in Taylors home town of Goulburn, NSW. As interesting as the electoral prospects of the various groups is the movement itself: organic and unruly by definition, but increasingly networked and turbocharged by the likes of McGowans Community Independents Project (CIP), which aids nascent groups, and Holmes Courts C200. Simon Holmes Court (born 30 May 1972) is an Australian businessman and political activist. Its like weve all been thinking, Theyll work it out. Minor parties and the independent share of the vote had been increasing for a decade, reaching its highest point since World War II in 2016, when more than a quarter of Australians voted for something other than the LNP, ALP or Greens in the Senate, and more than an eighth in the House of Representatives. Weve already given the money, I dont have anything to do with pre-selections he says. It is, says former Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley, a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, an anyone-other-than movement. If youre a socially progressive, fiscally conservative voter in Kooyong where do you park your vote? The confrontation was filmed by Josh Frydenberg on his phone and was posted to Twitter. It was not a pleasant time at all. Holmes Courts relaunch of C200 has been followed by serial announcements of an advisory board that looks increasingly like a posy of thorns in the Coalitions side, including former Liberals John Hewson and Julia Banks and former crossbenchers Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott. In Denmark theres over 2,100 versions of this, says Taryn Lane, the community manager for Hepburn Wind, the cooperative that owns and operates the windfarm. From CIP to all the Voices For, Voices Of, Vote Out and independent groups, the enabler has been technology. Featuring Belk, Dillard's, JCPenney, Macy*s and Von Maur, plus more than 200 local, national and international stores offering everything from women's and children's apparel to jewelry and home electronics. He is an energy analyst, clean tech investor, climate philanthropist, and director of the Smart Energy Council and the . I dont even know if its a 50/50.
I found myself standing on the footpath with a glass of wine, Holmes Court says. They didnt really have friends, my dad particularly. Even putting aside the question of how many of the burgeoning groups can bring themselves to behave enough like parties to launch campaigns and candidates, the governments net zero 2050 plan announced by the Glasgow-bound PM may sufficiently salve the wound, much as the governments 2019 Climate Solutions Package did. Its not tax-deductible, its uncomfortable for a lot of people to have their name out there. Im not feeling a mood for change. (As she speaks, though, at least one potentially noteworthy Liberal-aligned candidate is being sounded out to run against her. One of those was how much time the son of Australias first billionaire, Robert Holmes Court, spent on his off-grid, 36-hectare farm at Daylesford, during the two years of Melbournes extended lockdowns. It galvanised a town around climate action, he says. Simon was a driving force behind the countrys first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind, near Daylesford in Central Victoria. Simon is also a cleantech investor, climate philanthropist and a director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grant-makers Network. That all changed two months ago, when he relaunched Climate 200 (C200), the fundraising group he founded just before the May 2019 federal election with support from 35 investors, including tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes. He also believes the opportunity for the independents to control the balance of power is within reach. Its an entirely private setting, the backside of the familys beaglier, Kingston, heaving into view on my computer screen occasionally, or Katrina, down a hallway, cleaning windows. Holmes Court approached Hume at a pre-poll booth asking her if she was willing to withdraw her accusations. From the fertile spud-growing country of Hepburn Shire, 90km northwest of Melbourne, has sprung what many hope will become a revolution in renewable energy in Australia. But it was when independent Kerryn Phelps was advocating the Medevac bill, that he became connected. Look, Im an impatient incrementalist. Theres only been three times the minor party vote has gone over 25 per cent since federation, he says, referring to 1901, when the recently formed Labor Party won seats; the Lang Labor split during the Great Depression; and the events that led to Robert Menzies founding the Liberal Party in 1944. Hes ambitious. So the game was to get to actually work through getting elected so that I could do what I needed to. Isamu Sawa. Why arent you running for politics? I ask. And theyre stuck, and theyve been stuck for eight years., Nor does he need wholesale revolution. She puts what she calls that seismic shift down to the 2019-20 bushfires, followed closely by COVID-19. He is famous for these calls. We dont start campaigns, we dont choose candidates, campaigns come to us and if the campaign matches our mandate, the seat is winnable and the fundamentals check out we will donate to them.. Copyright 2023Asia & the Pacific Policy Society. Its people literally sending a message: If youre not prepared to endorse candidates with our values, or who can deliver on those values, well pick ones that are. I mean, its no accident that [independents like Haines and Steggall] are all progressive on climate change, social policy, and indeed are women. Working through the parties was never going to work for someone like me, McGowan says. Your question to Simon on the AZ election results and Simon's response provided some in-depth knowledge on AZ and GA results. Energy transition specialist and clean energy investor. These days, CIP holds the sort of regular online forums that have proliferated across the groups and candidates, on which Kelly, Phelps, Steggall, Haines and McGowan regularly appear. Simon was a driving force behind the country's first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind, near Daylesford in Central Victoria. Twitters been huge for me, he says. Rather than deal with requests piecemeal, McGowan ran a two-day Zoom conference, How to Get Elected, in February. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen, signed contributor The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Photos - Simon Holmes Court on his 40-hecatre farm in Daylesford, Victoria, 2021 bud factor x vs; Hes talented. More recently, his work with one of NSWs biggest solar installers brought Angus Taylor to his attention in the sprawling neighbouring electorate of Hume. The Holmes a Court family at the funeral of Robert Holmes a Court in 1990. So for people it was quite an obvious step that we might be able to take back the power so to speak., Lane says: Its ironic now that there is this broader push back to that more decentralised system., And Bernard turned out to be right. Hepburn actually used to own its own power generating sources. It was at the intersection of technology, climate action, community, and politics. For former Kevin Rudd staffer Lachlan Harris, that 25 per cent minority vote is a magic number. I found myself standing on the footpath with a glass of wine, Simon Holmes Court says. April 1st, 2011 Award winning reporter Cheryl Hall reporting on wind turbine related health problems and the first Federal Senate An Instagram account featuring local celebrities wearing the T-shirt peaked at 20,000 followers. Simon was a driving force behind the country's first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind, near Daylesford in Central Victoria. My parents never saw themselves as partisan. I think theyre lost as well, he says of the federal Labor Party. If we do manage to help three more communities and we get the existing independents back in, we wake up on the morning after the election to a potentially very different Australia. Even as a really young child, he was constantly tying things together, like a cord from his bed down the stairs and onto the front door so that he could open it, says Janet. Simon began his career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley during the first dotcom wave, then spent more than a decade in precision farm water management. Holmes Court, 49, also says he was thrown out of a meet the candidate event at the Geebung Polo Club with Frydenberg before the 2019 election. In the lead up to the 2019 Australian federal election, Climate200 raised nearly half a million dollars[6] for the campaign. But this time around, Holmes Courts ambition, like the number of independent activist groups, has hugely increased. Whats been missed is why people are rising up in these locations? The son of Australias first billionaire has become the face of a burgeoning independents movement some say heralds a tectonic shift in our political landscape. [18], Holmes Court married Katrina von Mller, sister of the Australian film director Karl von Mller, in 1997 at Hydra, Greece.
Who is Simon Holmes Court? Spoilt rich rid or climate saint | The Ive been obsessed with energy for a very long time, he says, almost wearily. I dont even understand his angle, Holmes Court says indignantly. At Mall of Georgia, we know what our shoppers want. Purpose acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded land on which we live and work. Since then, businesswoman Susan Benedyka and constitutional lawyer Kim Rubenstein have announced campaigns for senate seats in Victoria and the ACT respectively, and the former deputy mayor of Greater Shepparton Rob Priestly has announced hell run against Nationals MP Damian Drum for the Victorian seat of Nicholls.
Doug's latest chat with Simon Parkes, 7.8.2021 - Doug Billings He is an energy analyst, clean technology investor, climate philanthropist, director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University, and writes regularly about the transformation of Australias energy sector. You dont send John Howard somewhere you dont need him. So, I ask: what do you think that is? Meanwhile, a fortnight ago, The Australia Institute released its annual Climate of the Nation survey of 2626 voters, which found that a record 75 per cent were concerned about climate change, with almost 70 per cent looking to the government for a path to net zero.
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