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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Posted in Education, Environment, Family & Community, Greens, Health, Human Rights, Poverty, Web 2.0, Welfare, tagged Education, game, online, Poverty, social on December 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
The 2007 federal election has repeatedly been referred to as the ‘YouTube election’, with a larger emphasis on the video sharing website than previous elections. Indeed, we at the Greens utilised this very medium to its full capacity with our Australian Greens channel operating alongside Rachel, Christine, Kerry and Bob’s personal channels. We saw huge [...]
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Who says kids are apathetic these days? They’re obviously being taught some damn good civic values in Tassie’s schools!
It warms the cockles of my heart to hear this mob cheer, and to see how well my boss revs them up! [And, by the way, as a former school teacher, Christine was careful to make sure [...]
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Posted in Education, Election 07 on October 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Another week, another ALP me-too policy change. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to remember the differences between the ALP and the Coalition in this campaign. In so many of the key policy areas differences are more about style than substance, inviting voters to change the colour of the car but keep the same model.
In schools education [...]
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