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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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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Posted in Climate change, Coal, Drought, Election 07, Energy, Greens, Renewable energy, Solar Thermal, Water, Wind Power on November 12, 2007 | 20 Comments »
This morning, I joined Bob Brown and our ACT Senate candidate, Kerrie Tucker, down at the ANU’s Big Dish to launch a new policy that we are quite excited about – Farming Renewable Energy.
We’ve noticed that whenever we raise this as a concept it garners a particularly positive response, so we developed it into a [...]
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In but a few peoples calendars it seems are the words “National Water Week.” Events such as these are often overlooked by the general public, but they can have huge impact in raising awareness around issues that affect us all. National Water Week is upon us, and we need to take heed of a [...]
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I was rather disappointed to see the coverage of the CSIRO’s latest climate change summary for Australia begin to be cast as ‘climate change is inevitable‘. I’m not sure, but I think I even heard CSIRO’s Dr Penny Whetton use the word on ABC’s PM.
Now, I obviously bow to Dr Whetton’s expertise, and I know [...]
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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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