My parents both have a very strong ethos around social justice and were very passionate about helping in the community. It was never something they t… - Amanda McKenzie

"I took myself off one morning and sat on the beach, and I remember thinking to myself, 'What do I want to do with my life?' It seems very naïve now, but I wrote down, 'I want to save the world from environmental pollution.'"

The ideas around circular economy and so forth are a major philosophical change in that previously we have thought there is an outside to the environment that we live in, that there is always ‘somewhere else’ that we can put our waste. The truth is that there is only one environment, and we all have to live here. So anything that is ‘waste’ must be an input to some other process that is useful.

Clean energy is the cheapest source of new power and in the Australian context, electricity prices have been rising because our electricity system is aging. It's inefficient. It's polluting. So, replacing that energy system with clean technology, with renewables, with storage, is absolutely a critical part of the recovery puzzle.