Bachelor presenter Osher Günsberg has encouraged Aussies to vote for climate action in the federal election to give their children a brighter future.
The 48-year-old, who shares two-year-old son Wolf and 17-year-old stepdaughter Georgia with his wife Audrey Griffen, has thrown his support behind non-partisan parent advocacy organization Australian Parents for Climate Action.
In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, Osher said, “Parents are always making the best decisions now so that their child has the best possible outcome 20 years from now. That’s what parents do. That’s the job.”
Have your say: Bachelor presenter Osher Günsberg encouraged Australians to vote for climate protection measures in the general election to give their children a better future
He continued: “But our leaders really don’t seem interested in doing something like this for our country. In this election, no one running for the top job is talking about what’s important to our kids.
“We are living through the critical years not only to implement the climate solutions that will hopefully keep our weather patterns as stable as possible.
“But these are also the critical years to invest and expand, not just in renewable energy, but also in green industry, manufacturing and energy exports – these are tremendous opportunities.”
Osher continued, “My son Wolf won’t be able to vote until after 2036. But by the time he gets in line on election day to cast his vote and get his sausage of democracy, all the important decisions on climate protection will already have been made.
Advocacy: The 48-year-old, who shares two-year-old son Wolf (right) and 17-year-old stepdaughter Georgia with his wife Audrey Griffen, has campaigned for bipartisan parent advocacy Australian Parents to help protect the climate
“It is up to us to support climate protection. The other day I voted like a parent. I voted for the world my children will live in 20 years from now. Because I believe in jobs, growth, a strong economy and strong security. I believe in all of these things and I know that climate action is the right thing to do to make it happen.
Nic Seton, CEO of Australian Parents for Climate Action, said: “In the run-up to this election, thousands of parents and their families have expressed their support for climate action and the commitment of their candidates.
“And that’s no surprise, because supporting climate action helps protect our families and communities.
“More than ever, we must choose like parents – because that is what is best for our children. That is a message the next Parliament needs to hear.”
Coalition and opposition are leaving nothing to chance on the last day of the general election campaign as a new poll shows Labor could win government.
But the Prime Minister says he is more interested in the unemployment rate, which was confirmed at 3.9 percent on Thursday, than the polls.
“Polls don’t decide elections, neither do politicians and journalists,” he told ABC News Breakfast on Friday.
“Australians do that, the many calm people out there who work hard every day to make sure they can meet the challenges of every single day.”
Final day: The coalition and opposition are leaving nothing to chance in the final day of the general election campaign as a new poll shows Labor could win government. (Pictured: Prime Minister Scott Morrison campaigning in Darwin, NT on May 17)
But Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles says the unemployment rate is not reassuring for many Australians as wages have risen by less than half the rate of inflation.
“The unemployment figures are cold consolation for the millions of Australians who this week broke the news of the biggest real wage cut in more than 20 years,” he told Nine Network.
Meanwhile, opposition leader Anthony Albanese says he has given Labor’s electoral chances everything he has and will carry on until voting closes at 6pm on Saturday.
If elected, he would lead the most experienced new Labor team since Federation, he said.
“We have spelled out exactly what we are going to do in each area during this campaign and the difference between us and the government is that we have a plan going forward,” he told ABC radio on Friday.
Thursday was the largest single primary day in Australia’s history at 743,000, a record the Australian Electoral Commission expects to be broken on Friday.
Mr Morrison will start Day 40 of the campaign from the west, targeting seats in Perth, while Mr Albanese started in Sydney ahead of a three-state blitz of fringe coalition seats.
A new opinion poll shows the race has tightened over the past week, with the Coalition higher, confirming a trend seen across other voting trackers over the past few days.
Full stop: Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese (pictured) will begin Friday on opposite sides of the country with a final shot in a bid to win voters ahead of Saturday’s election
According to the Ipsos poll, published in The Australian Financial Review on Friday, Labor has a slim margin of 36-35 per cent over the government.
Based on bipartisan preference, Labor leads 53-47 percent after allocating preferences based on the last election in 2019.
Mr Albanese tracks 42 per cent for preferred Prime Minister versus 39 per cent for Mr Morrison.
The opposition leader still believes that a Labor victory at the ballot box is a mountain to climb.
“I am considering a Labor majority government on Saturday … and that is my only consideration,” he told ABC radio.
“Labour has only won government over opposition three times since the Second World War and we knew this election was going to be close.”
Mr Albanese said there would be savings in the budget result after a fiscal scrutiny of “waste and clutter” under the Morrison government.
In the meantime, the prime minister will use the last day of the election campaign to review the government’s economic record.
Mr Morrison is still confident he can win and is looking forward to Saturday.
“I look forward to going beyond (Saturday) because all of us in the country have worked so hard to come through this pandemic stronger than almost any other advanced economy in the world,” he told Radio 2GB in Sydney on Friday.
Mr Morrison said the low unemployment rate was a sign the Government’s economic plan was working.
More than seven million people either voted early or applied for a postal vote.