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Climate Change - WA Sustainability Within a Generation (SWAG)
Play your part in helping Western Australia become sustainable within a generation. Suggest a good idea or join someone else's idea to develop a proposal that will help us address climate change and our oil dependency and will help us to become more sustainable. Your completed team proposals will be prioritised, considered by an expert team, and the best ideas will be funded and supported through the Murdoch SWAG Foundation.
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This page contains all of the SWAG proposals.
These are the current proposals. If you have the Firefox or Internet Explorer browser, you could sign up for a proposal, or suggest a new one.
Introduce income tax claim benefits for environmental initiatives
Description
Currently, when you claim car travel miles for your tax return, the bigger the car, the greater you can claim & the more you travel, the more you can claim. There exists salary sacrificing incentives for people to own/use cars. Wouldnt it be great to see some tax and financial breaks for people who reduce waste! I'd like to explore some options!
Community based public transport for regional areas
Description
This proposal provides transport that is flexible to the needs of regional communities. The transport modes can be car pooling, car and bus hire. Access for these services will be through internet sites, local tourist bureaus and telecentres, depending on what services the community is able to access. The aim is to reduce harmful emmissions.
Home Electricity Use Meter
Description
This proposal involves installing electricity use meters into all houses to make it possible for householders to more easily understand where their electricity is being used and hence make it possible for opportunities to reduce use, and costs, to be targeted.
Compulsory campus-wide Climate Change & Sustainability unit for all Australian university students.
Description
This would be a required unit for all university courses run by lecturers and key public authorities who have an understanding of broad sustainability and climate change issues. The aim of the unit would be to inform university students about such issues, including practical suggestions for making significant positive changes to their lifestyles.
Compulsory participation in the 'solar schools' initiative for all suitable school sites.
Description
This proposal suggests expanding the current solar schools project & funding to cover both government & private schools. It aims to make participation compulsory for all WA Schools where photo-voltaic modules can be installed in a suitable location. It would result in fewer CO2 emissions & expand education on sustainability in school communities.
