Posted in Agriculture, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Kyoto Protocol, Logging, Nukes (energy related), Renewable energy, Senate, Tax, Transport, Welfare, fuel crisis on July 4, 2008 | 21 Comments »
This was published in Crikey this afternoon. My release from today is here.
Professor Garnaut’s much-awaited Draft Report [huge file here if the Garnaut website is still down] is, in general, strong on the architecture but terribly weak on the big, over-riding issue – preventing runaway climate change. His policy prescriptions are completely out of step [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Balance of Power, Bob Brown, Budget, Christine Milne, Environment, Forestry, Greens, Senate, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Water, YouTube on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As we say a sad farewell to Kerry Nettle and the Democrats (you can read Bob’s valedictory speech to the Dems here and we’ll post Kerry’s soon - here), we saw a fascinating signpost today to the interesting place that the new Senate will be when we come back from winter recess in late August.
Christine [...]
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Posted in Environment, GMO, Rachel Siewert, whales, tagged genetically, whaling, NRM, senate estimates, transcripts, animals on June 4, 2008 | 9 Comments »
To follow on from Tim H’s post on Senate Estimates transcripts, I thought I’d also post a few links to some of the more interesting discussions coming out of estimates.
Rach asked some questions on Live Animal Exports, in particular around those Memorandum of Understandings that the Australian Government have with countries to which we export [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Drought, Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Family & Community, Forestry, Greens, Health, Housing Crisis, Indigenous Australian, Industrial Relations, Logging, Marine, NT Intervention, Peak oil, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Transport, Water, Web 2.0, Welfare, Wind Power, YouTube on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This has taken a while, but we finally have Christine’s Budget Reply Speech up on YouTube and postable to the blog. Those of you who have enjoyed reading or listening to it may be interested in watching it.
In five parts.
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Posted in Agriculture, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Disability, Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Family & Community, Forestry, Greens, Health, Housing Crisis, Indigenous Australian, Logging, NT Intervention, Peak oil, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Transport, Water, Welfare, Wind Power on May 16, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Instead of replying to the details of the Rudd-Swan Budget, I decided this year to use their backward-looking, future-phobic presentation as the launching pad for a broader discussion of what we might do if we had a Government with the vision and guts necessary to take on the twin challenges of climate change and peak [...]
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The following article was first published on Larvatus Prodeo on Tuesday 1st April 2008.
The announcement of the Council of Australian Governments that an ‘historic’ Murray Darling Basin agreement has been reached seemed to tickle the fancy of most people involved. Now that the fanfare has died down, it’s time to look past the rhetoric and [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Christine Milne, Climate change, Drought, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Greens, Logging, Peak oil, Pulp Mill, Renewable energy, Sustainable Farming on March 3, 2008 | 41 Comments »
Catching up on the last few weeks, I’ve finally posted a pile of transcripts of Senate Estimates hearings to Christine’s website.
For those with a bit of time on their hands - or fast readers - there’s some choice tidbits there that are really worth finding.
The pick of the lot is
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The decision by the Victorian and NSW Governments to lift the ban on genetically modified canola crops is of great concern and one we believe the Rudd government should override.
This is a nation - changing decision being made by the two state governments. It has huge ramifications across Australia - the Constitution ensures that there [...]
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You might want to check out the latest scores on the Commitment to Development Index. The 2007 CDI was released in London today by the Centre for Global Development. It scores the world’s nations on their commitment to development on a number of key indices - Aid, Trade, Investment, Migration, Environment, Security and Technology.
Australia has [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Climate change, Drought, Rachel Siewert, tagged Agriculture, assistance, change, climate, Drought, Environment, farmers, rain, weeds on September 28, 2007 | 17 Comments »
The big problem with the latest drought assistance package is that it lacks vision. What we really need is a strategy to make the transition to a productive and sustainable agriculture in a changing and uncertain climate.
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