Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Garnaut Review, Greens, Peak oil, Senate, Transport on July 8, 2008 | 49 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Environment, Greens, Peak oil, Senate, YouTube, fuel crisis on June 19, 2008 | 14 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Greens, Peak oil, Transport on June 17, 2008 | 20 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Peak oil, Senate, Transport on May 28, 2008 | 23 Comments »
While the battle of petrol price populism between the old parties drags on, Christine plugged away once again last night at her favourite Senate Estimates sparring partner, ABARE.
Update: Transcript available here.
While ABARE is finally waking up to the understanding that there might be such a phenomenon as climate change, peak oil, sadly, still eludes them. [...]
Posted in Anti-environmentalism, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Nukes (energy related), Peak oil, Transport on May 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
New Matilda published this piece from Christine today under the title: ‘Be wary, we’re in safe hands’.
The Rudd Government has made much, since well before coming to office, of its determination to unblock Australia’s infrastructure bottlenecks and to tackle climate change.
I have noted before that unless carefully managed, these two goals will come into direct [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Greens, Health, Peak oil, Senate, Tax on May 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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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