Freewater to run for Robertson

Greens Cr Peter Freewater of Horsfield Bay has announced he will contest the seat of Robertson at the next Federal Election.

Cr Freewater said he would run as the Greens candidate for the Robertson electorate because he has "had enough of the political corruption and immoral governance" of the area.

"I've decided to take matters into my own hands and do something about it," Cr Freewater said.

"I have been working for years to protect the natural resources of Gosford and to balance conservation with the needs of the community.

"As a Greens councillor for Gosford, I have been working against self-serving political aspirations to make our waterways safe and navigable, to stop mining companies exploiting our communities and to expose mismanagement and political corruption.

"Now I want the community to send me to Canberra to be a real alternative to those politicians, funded by multi-nationals that no longer look after the needs of real Australians."

Cr Freewater said the Liberal and Labor parties were influenced by millions of dollars in donations from big business and no longer served the best interests of ordinary Australians. "Labor and Liberal are now almost identical and neither will implement effective policies that might impinge on the interests of the corporations that support them," Cr Freewater said.

"It's time for the Australian people to take action - we all need to get behind the Greens and put our country on a path to a sustainable future.

"Both major parties plan to double our population over the next 20 to 30 years.

"They say it helps the economy grow.

"Our natural environment and our cities can't support all those additional people and where will it end... 200 million?

"In the short term, the only winners are developers.

"In the long term, we all lose."

Cr Freewater said he was looking to start a Young Greens group on the Peninsula and called on young people in the area interested in politics and the environment to get on board.

Cr Freewater said he was available directly at peter.freewater@hydro-ecology.com.au

Clare Graham, 19 Jan 2010 Interviewee: Cr Peter Freewater, Horsfield Bay