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 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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Posted in Family & Community, Human Rights, Indigenous Australian, NT Intervention, Rachel Siewert, Welfare, tagged aboriginal, indigenous, centrelink, NT Intervention, Welfare on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Post-apology, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has asked us to “embrace the possibility of new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed,” asserting that the mistakes of Indigenous policy of the past won’t be repeated. His Government, however, is persisting in the ill thought-out and ideologically driven Northern Territory Intervention - despite a promise [...]
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Every now and then an idea comes around which is so perfectly judged that it seems it cannot fail to take off. Jonathon Welch’s Choir of Hard Knocks is such an idea, and I am one of millions, doubtless, around Australia to have been moved and inspired by what has been achieved.
A few weeks ago, [...]
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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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I read Paul Murrays’ column in the West Australian Like it or not, we are a greedy lot at poll time (Aug 23rd) with interest, and was pleased to see that Paul is in agreement with the Greens (whether he would care to admit it or not) on this critical issue.
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I am constantly amazed at the Howard Government’s lack of interest in the real care and education of our children. Cutting corners on the health and well-being of today’s generation of children is a false economy, as the consequence costs to society of poorer lifetime health and lower educational achievements and social engagement are massive. [...]
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