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 [...]
Crikey published this piece from me today, in the lead up to my Budget Reply speech tonight, which I will post to the blog as soon as the Hansard is available.
Tuesday night’s Budget was a slap in the face for all those Australians who voted for the Labor Party at the last election in the [...]
It’s great that feed-in laws, regarded globally as one of the most effective mechanisms for boosting renewable energy and long-time Greens policy, are finally getting somewhere in Australia.
But it is deeply troubling that, in Victoria, they are being perverted in such a way as to make them greenwash rather than real, effective emissions reduction policies.
Feed-in [...]
It is true that as a black-hearted blogger allegedly of the 'hard left' I sometimes mock some of the more inane right-leaning bloggers in Australia. God knows there are more than a few embarrassments among them. One blogger with whom I will attempt to engage in this post, rather than mock, is Mark R. Read more »
After some extraordinary work involving sticky-taping together a shredded document, the Tasmanian Greens have claimed the scalp of another senior Minister in the irredeemably awful Lennon Government -this time Deputy Premier and former Attorney-General, Steve Kons.
Observers of Tas politics might recall that Kons replaced Bryan Green as Deputy Premier when Green was forced out after [...]
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 [...]
There is an old political adage that the Budget is the clearest possible view of a government’s soul - laying bare its priorities for all to see.
So, now that the day of the Rudd Government’s first Budget has arrived, what can we expect?
From all that we’ve seen and heard thus far, and from regular interaction [...]
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 [...]
An edited version of this piece ran in today’s Crikey email. See also articles in today’s SMH, Financial Review and Age.
The environment movement has been united since 1972 on the fundamental issue of the polluter pays principle, stating that polluters must pay to clean up the damage they have created. It is the principle which [...]
For some time, we’ve been hearing persistent reports of deeper and deeper gloom pervading meetings and conferences around Australia and the world on geosequestration - so-called ‘clean coal’ technology, or carbon capture and storage. The research, which receives the lions share of government energy funding, just hasn’t been making progress. Years down the track, we [...]
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