Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Transport on July 17, 2008 | 18 Comments »
This piece was originally published in today’s Crikey email.
In the coming months before the emissions trading legislation comes before the Senate, the Rudd Government needs to think hard about what it is trying to achieve.
Does it plan to buy into the lowest common denominator populism of the Coalition? This approach drags the debate backwards, undermines [...]
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ABC TV watchers amongst you may have seen the promos already for Christine Milne on the newish Q&A program this Thursday night, July 10, at 9.30 pm. She will be on the panel, focussed on ‘Welcome the new Senate’, with Senator Helen Coonan, Minister Craig Emerson, author Linda Jaivin and everybody’s favourite opinionated columnist, Andrew [...]
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Posted in Bob Brown, Greens on July 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Wonderfully uplifting news today that Colombian Green presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, has been freed! Betancourt, who had been taken hostage by FARC revolutionary guerillas 6 years ago, was finally released in an apparently extraordinary operation with no loss of life or even injuries.
I personally didn’t meet her when she was in Australia shortly before her [...]
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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 Anti-environmentalism, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Greens, Kyoto Protocol, Senate, fuel crisis on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
An edited version of this piece appeared in today’s Crikey email.
Not long ago I wrote in Crikey giving the Climate Institute a very hard time over their positioning on geosequestration. While I still think they are utterly wrong on that, I write today to support their excellent report which the Federal Opposition yesterday dishonestly and [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Transport, Wind Power, fuel crisis on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Senate Environment Committee is calling for submissions to an inquiry into my renewable energy feed-in Private Member’s Bill, which we negotiated and were successful in having referred earlier this week.
If we are to make this law a reality and give the Australian renewable energy sector the best possible support that it will need in [...]
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I think Liberal Backbencher Chris Pearce may have done us all a big favour by taking the petrol price populism just that little bit too far this morning. He went out on a limb calling for his own party to double its ridiculous 5c fuel excise cut to 10c and promptly got smacked down by [...]
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You know the message is starting to get through when Kerry O’Brien on ABC’s 7.30 Report opens an interview with the Prime Minister by saying “isn’t it time to look Australians in the eye and tell them the news is only going to get worse on oil?”
What a pity that the PM continued to ignore [...]
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The Chief of Defence Force (CDF) Air Marshall Angus Houston, told the Senate Estimates hearing today that the war in Afghanistan may last another ten years. Not only that, but the CDF said that without a lot more troops on the ground, we face “strategic failure” in Afghanistan.
An uncomfortable Minister Faulkner sat stone [...]
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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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