Along with eight other Lismore flood survivors, I聽dumped a pile of destroyed possessions on Prime Minister Scott Morrison鈥檚 doorstep at Kirribilli House on March 21.
When the megaflood hit us,聽I spent seven hours on a small boat cruising Lismore, dragging my neighbours out of their submerged homes to safety.
Tragically, one of my elderly neighbours could not be saved and lost her life.聽My own home went under, up to the roof. I lost everything except my clothes and car and now I鈥檓 homeless.
For too long聽 Morrison has denied and delayed climate action and been a puppet of the fossil fuel lobby.聽The day before he staged a photo op in the midst of our clean-up and suffering in Lismore,聽his government was bragging about keeping its 鈥渇oot on the accelerator鈥 of funding new fossil fuel projects.
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This has to stop. We鈥檙e demanding that Morrison and all federal MPs immediately commit to:
鈥 Redirect all fossil fuel funding to support climate disaster survivors and build climate resilience in our communities;
鈥 Slash Australia鈥檚 climate pollution in the next term of government; and
鈥 Ban political donations from fossil fuel interests.
We know we鈥檙e in a climate emergency and these have to be the most basic first steps to solving it.
But we can鈥檛 win this by ourselves. We need a national movement to stand with us and amplify our voice. My community has been devastated by these floods聽and we need to take action now.
[Dee is a flood survivor from Lismore. is organising a national protest on March 25. Find an event near you and join it.]