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 Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Greens, Health, Peak oil, Senate, Transport on May 23, 2008 | 58 Comments »
This piece was published today on Crikey’s daily email. Also see my media release from this morning on the issue.
I have to confess myself quite flabbergasted by the extent to which our governments, oppositions, economists, planners and media claim to have been caught unawares by the rocketing global oil price and imply that no one [...]
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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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There is an old political adage that the Budget is the clearest possible view of a government’s soul - laying bare its priorities for all to see.
So, now that the day of the Rudd Government’s first Budget has arrived, what can we expect?
From all that we’ve seen and heard thus far, and from regular interaction [...]
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Posted in Health, tagged Health, organ donor on February 15, 2008 | 24 Comments »
After attending the launch of the Gift of Life campaign here at Parliament House, I’m shocked at the small number of people who have signed on to donate their organs in death.Â
There are almost 2000 people in Australia on organ transplant waiting lists at any given time. Some of them will die waiting. The Australian Organ [...]
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Posted in Education, Environment, Family & Community, Greens, Health, Human Rights, Poverty, Web 2.0, Welfare, tagged Education, game, online, Poverty, social on December 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
The 2007 federal election has repeatedly been referred to as the ‘YouTube election’, with a larger emphasis on the video sharing website than previous elections. Indeed, we at the Greens utilised this very medium to its full capacity with our Australian Greens channel operating alongside Rachel, Christine, Kerry and Bob’s personal channels. We saw huge [...]
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Right now for every dollar of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) or Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) spent on other Australians, only 40 cents is spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ health.
During the last decade other nations such as Canada, New Zealand and the United States have managed to achieve major gains in the health and [...]
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Posted in Bob Brown, Cartoons, Health, Junk Food, tagged advertising, ban, bob, brown, cartoon, children, food, hanson-young, junk, obesity, petition, sarah on October 31, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Today’s cartoon is brought to you by the very serious issue of childhood obesity and junk food advertising.
The incidence of overweight and obesity among Australian children has increased rapidly in recent years and, at present, shows no sign of abating. (Approximately 1 in 6 children are overweight and 1.20 obese) It is linked to an increase [...]
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