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By Kim on September 6, 2010
Q&A tonight came close to living up to its pitch of unpredictability. The representatives of both wings of the political class – Nick Minchin and Peter Beattie – looked like going into meltdown as Christine Milne and Bob Katter, for [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, History, International, Media, Politics | Tagged agriculture, Bob Katter, cheap food, Christine Milne, De Tocqueville, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, food security, free trade, greens, hung parliament, John Stuart Mill, neo-liberalism, Nick Minchin, Peter Beattie, protection, Q&A, Qanda, Rebecca Huntley, tariffs |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2009
The Coalition are continuing their marathon climate change/leadership party room meeting after question time today. Clearly, agreement couldn’t be reached within the scheduled four hours. That’s significant in itself. In developments so far, Andrew Robb has jumped ship, reports Bernard [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Howardia, Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged Andrew Robb, Australian Greens, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Christine Milne, Climate change, climate change policy, coalition amendments, cprs, Crikey, ets, greens, Greens Blog, Ian Macfarlane, Kevin Andrews, Kevin Rudd, legislation, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, New Matilda, Penny Wong, Peter Martin |
By Brian on June 24, 2009
Christine Milne gave a very fine speech at the National Press Club the other day, very fine indeed. She quotes Gandhi and Kofi Annan up front, then Machiavelli and John Kennedy, finishing with Thoreau. There are many fine rhetorical flourishes [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Bill Hare, Bill McKibbin, Blair report G8 2008, burning embers diagram, Christine Milne, Climate Code Red, David Spratt, Eraring power station, global climate change imacts in the United States, greens climate policy, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, James Hansen, national press club, Newcastle CSIRO Energy Centre, paul gilding, Phillip Sutton, Potsdam Institute, Stefan Rahmtorf, synthesis report: climate change conference Copenhagen |
By Guest Poster on December 9, 2008
[Cross-posted at GreensBlog] So what just happened with the National Academy of Music? Tim Hollo – Advisor to Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne Yesterday, after a whirlwind six week campaign, Melbourne Uni and the National Academy of Music put out [...]
Posted in Music, Policy | Tagged AIMP, ANAM, arts policy, Australian Greens, Australian Institute of Music Performance, Australian National Academy of Music, Brett Dean, Christine Milne, classical music, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, defunding, Education, Glyn Davis, Melbourne University, Michael Danby, Music, Peter Garrett, Terry Moran, The Greens, training |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 5, 2008
[Update: {by Kim} Garnaut has recommended a low target - 10% by 2020. Details in the press release here, and the address can be downloaded here. Links to pdfs.] Ross Garnaut will be at the National Press Club in Canberra [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment | Tagged ALP, carbon pollution reductions scheme, Christine Milne, Climate change, economic modelling, emissions cap, emissions target, emissions trading policy, Garnaut Report, Garnaut Review, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Penny Wong, Ross Garnaut, Rudd government, targets and trajectories, Treasury modelling |
The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, The Web, USA, War | Tagged America, Australia, barack obama, Christine Milne, Climate change, commentary, coverage, Democrats, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, Gaza, global finance, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, inaugural address, inauguration, Keynes, Keynesianism, Middle East, post-partisan politics, reactions, regulation, rhetoric, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 8 Responses