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, 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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Yesterday morning we learned that a major bushfire was burning out of control in the magnificent Tarkine wilderness in remote north-easternwestern Tasmania, destroying precious, unique rainforest.
To make matters worse, the fire is believed to have been started after a car rolled on the ‘Road to Nowhere’, deliberately lit by the driver to attract attention. In [...]
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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 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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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Greens, Kyoto Protocol, Logging, Renewable energy on December 11, 2007 | 48 Comments »
Belated greetings and postings from Bali, where there was genuine excitement and warm good will last week when the new Government announced its decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol immediately and rejoin the global effort to tackle climate change.
Sad to say, that good will is already being squandered and has already begun to turn to [...]
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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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