Jonathan Ayres speaks to The Standard about why he's running for the Moyne Shire Council
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00:00Jonathan why are you running for council? I'll be running for council to be a
00:04voice for Mother Nature. Mother Nature is not something you're into but what you
00:10are a part of. So whatever projects are going to be proposed in council I think
00:15it's absolutely important that someone is looking at it from the perspective
00:19of Mother Nature. We can always incorporate more and sometimes less is
00:25more but not in the case of nature. And so why should people vote for you?
00:30At the moment I don't think that there is quite a voice or candidate who would be looking at the
00:37nature perspective as much as me. Being a local arborist I spend the majority of
00:40my week up in trees thinking, reflecting and feeling what it feels like to be nature and if appointed or elected I promise to maintain that mentality.
00:54And what would some of your priorities be? The linking between the youth, so school or any
01:00young people anywhere, and the elderly especially on our farms. We're losing a
01:05big connection between the farmers who are working this land and who have spent
01:11countless hours, tears, sweat and blood to observe and learn and nurture their own
01:19specific land and I think we can bridge that gap and we can add a lot more
01:24projects like food forests and really just get a lot of trees in the ground
01:29and make it a bit more of an interactive space so people everywhere can walk,
01:33learn and also eat.