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 Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Greens, Peak oil, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Transport on June 3, 2008 | 9 Comments »
As the team at Hansard are struggling valiantly to catch up on the huge quantity of transcribing work coming out of Senate Estimates, it’s going to be a little while before we’re up to date here on what’s been happening, but I thought I’d post a few key climate and oil-related transcripts now.
The one that [...]
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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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After some extraordinary work involving sticky-taping together a shredded document, the Tasmanian Greens have claimed the scalp of another senior Minister in the irredeemably awful Lennon Government -this time Deputy Premier and former Attorney-General, Steve Kons.
Observers of Tas politics might recall that Kons replaced Bryan Green as Deputy Premier when Green was forced out after [...]
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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 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 debate flying in Crikey.com.au about whaling campaigns in recent days is symptomatic of the way predictable players use the summer whaling season as an opportunity to further their anti-environmental campaigns. Here’s my contribution to the debate from today’s Crikey email. Apologies if the links are behind the Crikey paywall…
Steve Shallhorn, my former boss at [...]
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This piece from me was published in today’s Crikey email.
ESTRAGON: Let’s go.
VLADIMIR: We can’t.
ESTRAGON: Why not?
VLADIMIR: We’re waiting for Garnaut.
ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah!
You couldn’t mistake the genuine warmth and goodwill in Bali at hearing the news that Australia’s new Prime Minister had immediately ratified the Kyoto Protocol and [...]
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