Posted in Nukes (disarmament related), Scott Ludlam, tagged hiroshima, nuclear, uranium on August 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
August 6th is the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima. I’ve just spent four days in a city where the memories are not only fresh, but engraved in stone, protected in world heritage-listed monuments, and taught urgently to young and old, local and foreign alike.
The Japanese have a word for [...]
Posted in Housing Crisis, Scott Ludlam, tagged housing, karratha, pilbara, WA on July 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
For most of the country the mining boom is a good news story of mining royalties and economic resilience that has carried us – so far - through the turbulence on world financial markets. However from close-up in the coastal Pilbara, the resources boom has distorted the local economy beyond recognition. Some are making and [...]
Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Transport on July 17, 2008 | 108 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 [...]
Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Renewable energy, Senate, Transport on July 16, 2008 | 16 Comments »
The Rudd Government’s Emissions Trading Green Paper can now be downloaded from the Climate Change Department website here.
I’ve been trying to get to do a post on this since 12.30, but I’m alone in the office with Christine and the phone’s been ringing off the hook - which is a good thing!
We will do a [...]
Posted in Senate, whales, tagged greenpeace, japan, japanese, whaling on July 16, 2008 | 55 Comments »
In an update on our previous post, we now have more information on the two Greenpeace activists who were arrested in Japan following a four-month investigation into activities onboard the Japanese factory whaling ship and what happens to the whale meat that is processed following their ’scientific’ research.
Greenpeace intercepted one of many boxes of whale [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Rachel Siewert, tagged workplace, ir, work choices, award, AIRC on July 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This piece was first published yesterday by Larvatus Prodeo.
Massive upheaval is occurring to Australia’s standard employment conditions and minimum wages, with little to no understanding or public attention.
The ‘award modernisation’ process currently underway in the AIRC, following a request from the Workplace Relations Minister, Julia Gillard, will impact on all Australian workers … either directly [...]
Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Tax, Transport on July 14, 2008 | 30 Comments »
So the day after tomorrow (ah that hoary old Hollywood chestnut…), Penny Wong will finally release the government’s Green Paper, to which Professor Garnaut is one of many ‘inputs’. Most of the others being big business.
While it won’t be anything like final design, and it won’t include any emissions targets or trajectories, the paper should [...]
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 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 [...]
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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