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 [...]
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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 emergency, indigenous, intervention, NT, 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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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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Right now for every dollar of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) or Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) spent on other Australians, only 40 cents is spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ health.
During the last decade other nations such as Canada, New Zealand and the United States have managed to achieve major gains in the health and [...]
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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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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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