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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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 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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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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A friend just forwarded me this awesome video by the wonderful Blue Man Group. I remember it from a couple of years ago, but was inspired to post it here.
Love the expressions on the faces!
UPDATE: added another great vid below the fold.
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Worried about global warming? Never fear! There is an easy solution just around the corner…
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The NSW Greens have released a new climate change TV ad based on the most famous political ad in the United States.
The ad is based on the famous Lyndon Johnson “Daisy” Ad
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Posted in Balance of Power, Bob Brown, Election 07, Greens, Senate, YouTube, tagged greens youtube, Senate, brown, bob, advertisement on November 16, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Our office gets lots of comments that Bob should be cloned. Well we have finally done it (on an advert anyway). Today the Australian Greens launched ‘Double Action’ vote ad to win Senate balance.
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