The gates of hell are open wide, with a nice fresh coat of paint in Federation colours
The A-G has just announced that after much deliberation the Government has decided we’re not going to have a national Bill of Rights. We’re going to have a Framework instead, apparently. What that would mean I’m not sure. (My guess: [...]
#nocleanfeed – Aust Govt delays introducing net filter legislation
From the Oz A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament. With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are [...]
Labor to adopt Abbott climate policy
Ben Eltham’s piece on the CPRS backflip largely sums up my thoughts. One interesting question not yet addressed, however, is what the government might be offering instead. There are some hints in an article in today’s Fin (as usual, not [...]
Nine-star rated eco houses
Now that the Government has capitulated for the time being on the CPRS they would surely be looking around for ways that they can demonstrate their commitment to mitigation of climate change. The Australian Financial Review on the weekend carried [...]
The sun shines blue on Janet's planet
In yesterday’s Opposition Organ, Janet Albrechtsen took in on herself to warn that calls for voting reforms based on proportional representation were a sinister trick by TEH ANTI-DEMOCRATIC LEFT. I wrote a letter in response which didn’t get printed, but [...]
Green politics as radical democracy
[Author's note: the following is the text of a paper I presented to a Queensland Greens training workshop in April 2003. I have been prompted to post it here by Robert Merkel's most recent post.] This paper is a preliminary [...]
After the dead horses, what?
As the Rudd government indulges in the usual Third Way antics of dumping on the left in preparation for an election, it cheered my mood considerably to come across this piece by John Quiggin, in which he argues the need [...]
An unbalanced report
Last night’s Four Corners program on the home insulation scheme was a story half-told. For the first time, a fuller picture of the circumstances of one of the deaths was publicly revealed, as well as the news that a series [...]
Labor "shelves emissions scheme"
ABC news: It was once a centrepiece of the Federal Government’s election strategy, but now the emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been relegated to the shelf until at least 2013… But Government sources say it was decided last week to [...]
Save the people but cook the planet
As Fred Pearce in the New Scientist says environmental paradoxes don’t come much bigger. The world’s fleet of 100,000 ships produces two kinds of pollution. One the one hand they emit nearly a billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere [...]
Spotlight the Spin
A weekly look at stories various PR people tried to bury in the tail end of the news cycle before this last weekend. What are they hoping that we won”t talk about this week because “it”s old news” now? Let”s [...]
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