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 [...]
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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 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 Housing Crisis, Human Rights, Indigenous Australian, NT Intervention, Poverty, Rachel Siewert, tagged indigenous, intervention, NT, emergency, racism on May 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This is an excerpt of a full article I’ve written for newmatilda.com
I’ve just been on the road with the Senate Inquiry into the NT Emergency Response Consolidation Bill - the Government’s proposed changes to Howard’s original legislation.
It has been obvious for a while that there are some serious flaws with the NT [...]
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This was orginally published in Crikey’s daily email today, March 5.
Let’s imagine for a moment that the policies put forward in recent days work and, in a few years, more people are able to pay the purchase price for new homes again. Let’s imagine – and this is easy to do – that these policies [...]
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Posted in Bob Brown, Election 07, Housing Crisis, Poverty, Rachel Siewert, tagged affordability, cuts, housing, Poverty, shelter, Tax on October 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
As you are all no doubt aware this week is Anti-Poverty Week.
Having the start of Anti-Poverty Week coinciding with the first day of the election campaign has of course been a bit of a political opportunity.
John Howard introduced $34 Billion of tax cuts, but as both Bob and I were quick to point out - [...]
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Posted in Election 07, Housing Crisis, Indigenous Australian, Poverty, Rachel Siewert, Senate, Welfare, tagged ACOSS, Australia Fair, housing, indigenous, Poverty on October 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today the Australian Council of Social Services ACOSS released its Federal Election statement “Towards a Fairer Australia”.
The question it poses is simple – if Australia as a nation can’t find it in its heart to help out the disadvantaged and ensure a fair go for all Australians during the economic ‘good times’, then can we [...]
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