After riding the ‘teal’ wave into a seat in parliament, the Goldstein MP outlines her priorities
– a colour combining the Liberal party’s traditional blue with green – joining Warringah MP Zali Steggall on the crossbench when the 47th parliament sits for the first time next week, having won affluent seats off Liberals on the moderate wing of the party.
“The focus [of the media was] on the attack lines and the sort of optics of winning the game. And this is not a game. This is people’s livelihoods. This is our environment. This is the future of our country, of our world. “There’s always going to be … competitiveness in a political environment, but I just don’t think it has to be just point-scoring off each other.”
“We need to accept that we’ve moved too slowly. We actually really need to escalate that action in terms of moving into renewables and I think that we shouldn’t use what’s happening in the energy market as an excuse to slow down,” she says, acknowledging the transition will be challenging. On Labor’s integrity commission proposal, Daniel is calling for boosted whistleblower protections, though she disagrees with the new independent MP for the seat of North Sydney, Kylea Tink, who“The commission should not have the power to order the sacking of an MP – that comes down to the leader of the party. There’s obvious potential consequences, being demoted to the backbench, for example,” she says.
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