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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We’re excited about the launch of a new website - OpenAustralia.
There are several great examples of political watchdog sites around the world; ePolitix in the UK, Common Cause and Public CItizen in the US, but it was the TheyWorkForYou site in the UK that was the turning point for public involvement in Parliament. That has [...]
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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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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, Coal, Election 07, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Web 2.0, Wind Power on May 21, 2008 | 22 Comments »
ABC Online kindly published this piece of mine today here. It’s very encouraging to see the overwhelmingly positive comments thread thus far.
Martin Ferguson, let the cat out of the bag shortly after the Budget, when he said that carbon capture and storage would be “essential for the long-term sustainability of coal-fired power generation.” With those [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind Power, YouTube on May 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Against the backdrop of several appalling Rudd Government Budget decisions that will undermine the renewables industry in Australia even further (some of which are detailed here), Christine Milne introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Senate this morning to establish an comprehensive national feed-in law.
Feed-in laws support the rapid and unlimited growth of the renewables [...]
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Tonight’s the night that the Rudd Government deliver their first federal budget, and the Greens are currently in lock-up, pouring over every detail and analysing every last line.
Keep an eye on this spot - after 7:30 tonight, when the doors open, we’ll have more details live blogged here.
7:35pm Swan is telling us ‘the proceeds of [...]
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Catching up on videos that I have meant to post here for some time, putting firmly the Greens’ position on Tibet.
Two are of Bob Brown speaking at the rally coinciding with the Olympic torch relay here in Canberra, and the third is Christine Milne’s speech to the Senate on the question of suspending standing orders [...]
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It’s a little old now, but I thought you’d all enjoy this short video about our planet’s energy supply.
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Posted in Climate change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Renewable energy, Web 2.0, tagged al gore, climate, global warming, talk, TED on April 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m sure most people by now have seen An Inconvenient Truth. Well, you might not have seen Al Gore’s new talk on the global climate crisis, given in March 2008 at TED.com.
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