The Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage, and Shadow Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett, appeared with Labor Candidate for Eden Monaro Mike Kelly, to announce full Labor support for a National Heritage Listing of Judith Wright's former home at Mongarlowe. The Property, Edge, had been gifted to the ANU, who then transferred it to the Duke of Edinburgh Award for $1, and who were now seeking to sell the property.

Garrett conducted a quick press conference attended by a handful of media, in the Judith Wright Room of the Braidwood Museum.

Mr Garrett said that "There can be no doubt that Judith Wright was a giant figure of her time, she was a poet called "the conscience of the nation."

'South of my Days' has run through the classrooms of many an Australian student, and I think her poetry provides an inspiration to countless generations of Australians, as did her strong conservation work, and her involvement in the artistic and cultural life of the nation.

I should say to you that the criteria for the National Heritage List is that a place has outstanding heritage value because of the place's special association with the life or works of a person of importance in Australia's natural or cultural history, and clearly Judith Wright falls fairly and squarely in that criteria."

Mike Kelly said that, "we have to make sure that our society doesn't develop an attitude of everything being costed and nothing valued. It's very important that we emphasise that cultural heritage and pass that on to our children."

The Garrett/Kelly announcement was made six days after Greens Senator Christine Milne had already called for an emergency listing of the property. "As soon as I heard about the proposed sale of this property which inspired one of Australia's greatest poets, I wrote to Minister Turnbull" she said.