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 Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Election 07, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Web 2.0, Wind Power on May 21, 2008 | 22 Comments »
ABC Online kindly published this piece of mine today here. It’s very encouraging to see the overwhelmingly positive comments thread thus far.
Martin Ferguson, let the cat out of the bag shortly after the Budget, when he said that carbon capture and storage would be “essential for the long-term sustainability of coal-fired power generation.” With those [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Election 07, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Greens, Renewable energy on February 29, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Back in December, shortly after the election, a couple of us from Christine’s office went to see Professor Garnaut speak at ANU. We wanted to get a feel for how this man – who would now be so important – saw the big and small picture questions of climate change.We’ve copped a bit of [...]
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The outcome of the final Senate spot in Victoria is still up for grabs for Greens candidate Richard di Natale, with a possible recount on the cards.
We have been scrutineering at most polling booths since election day, and have picked up a number of inconsistencies, mistakes and misattributed votes.
In the electorate of Wills, 309 Greens [...]
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With the Senate numbers still to be finalised - and maybe a while off - we do have one milestone we can confirm: achieving the million votes mark in the Senate.
Latest projections (with a significant number of votes still to be counted) have 1,080,000 Australians having cast their first preference Senate vote for the Greens. [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Election 07, Greens, Web 2.0, tagged Greens, election, live, tally room, party, 2007 on November 24, 2007 | 55 Comments »
So here we are. It’s taken me this long to get through the firewall here and start blogging, but here we go…
You’ll have seen the exit polls by now, I imagine. And the numbers are starting to go up on the big board. Not that that matters, anymore, of course, in our online world.
I’ve been [...]
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So, election day is here at last. After a great, long campaign, now it’s fingernail biting time…
I spent the morning at a rather conservative booth in Canberra. Good to see lots of people coming straight up to us asking for the Greens how-to-vote, and crossing their fingers at us on the way back out again.
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Posted in Cartoons, Iraq, tagged cartoon, hearing, howard, Iraq on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Balance of Power, Christine Milne, Climate change, Election 07, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Greens, Nukes (disarmament related), Nukes (energy related), Renewable energy on November 22, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I am very worried - and I think all Australians ought to be equally worried - that Australia’s rapidly growing involvement in the global nuclear industry has been shrouded in silence during this campaign. Brief mentions by Kerry O’Brien on the 7.30 Report in his leaders’ interviews this week are essentially the sum total of [...]
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Two Green issues have been swept under the carpet by both Howard and Rudd during this election campaign – the nuclear agenda, which I’ll post on shortly, and peak oil.
For those who think peak oil is a left-wing conspiracy theory, it’s worth noting that President Bush recently told a White House press conference that:
“I believe [...]
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