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Facebook, And
Posted by jennifer, July 20th, 2012 - under Good Causes, News.
Tags: People
Comments: 17
I’ve a Facebook account and I’ve started posting information there that is not about the natural environment, but that I think is important. A reader of this blog, Neville, sent me a link to a podcast of Alan Jones on 2GB talking this morning about Julia Gillard and her involvement with the AWU. Alan Jones can [...]
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Act Locally to Axe the Tax
Posted by jennifer, June 27th, 2012 - under Good Causes.
Tags: Carbon Trading
Comments: 54
Dear Supporters, In the next few days we will be launching a poster campaign to coincide with the introduction of the Carbon TAX. The campaign will consist of distributing this poster http://www.galileomovement.com.au/images/poster_campaign_800c.jpg to shops and business in your local area and asking them to display it prominently in their windows or notice boards. We have [...]
After Gina Rhinehart Buys Fairfax
Posted by jennifer, June 20th, 2012 - under Good Causes, Humour, Opinion.
Tags: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, People
Comments: 66
‘The hilarious implication – and secret terror of every Melbourne hipster – is that Rinehart will turn Fairfax into some kind of 24-hour Mining Channel, with endless re-runs of Red Dog and Wake in Fright, interspersed with ads for blue singlets. You won’t be able to so much as pick up a copy of the Age without finding your hands [...]
Away with Rio+20: The Voice of the Peasant
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, June 19th, 2012 - under Good Causes, Information, News.
Tags: Conferences, Food & Farming
Comments: 8
‘GOVERNMENTS from all over the world will meet in Río de Janeiro, Brasil from June 20-22 2012, to supposedly commemorate 20 years since the “Earth Summit”, the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, that established for the first time a global agenda for “sustainable development”. During this summit, in 1992, three international conventions [...]
Away with Rio+20 and Ineptocracy
Posted by jennifer, June 16th, 2012 - under Good Causes, Information, Opinion.
Tags: Conferences, Coral Reefs, Murray River
Comments: 35
INEPTOCRACY is a system of government where the least capable of leading are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. That’s according to the [...]
Thank YOU, And
Posted by Koala Bear, May 28th, 2012 - under Good Causes.
Comments: 7
My name is Mr Koala and I would like to thank some of the readers of this blog for their very generous donation: M (from the NT) donated $50 P (from SA) donated $50 J (from NSW) donated $100 So Jen and I have $200 from our recent fundraising drive. Thank you!
Media Watch Witch Hunt
Posted by Koala Bear, May 20th, 2012 - under Good Causes, Information, News.
Tags: ABC, Murray River
Comments: 10
IN the old days they would have just bound her, thrown her into the lake, and waited to see if she floated. That was how one viewer responded to the vicious dunking of Jennifer Marohasy by Jonathan Holmes on their Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Media Watch program on March 19, 2012. Dr Marohasy just wants [...]
Live Near a Wind Project?
Posted by jennifer, May 17th, 2012 - under Good Causes.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 30
DARRYL Read is a fourth year psychology honors student at the University of New England in Australia. His research project involves surveying citizens near proposed or established wind developments, worldwide. His interest in this area of research began after speaking with rural residents living in Crookwell, New South Wales (NSW), which has the oldest wind [...]
Queensland to Dump ‘Green’ Schemes
Posted by jennifer, March 28th, 2012 - under Good Causes, Information.
Tags: Carbon Trading, government
Comments: 11
NEW Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, orders ex-Queensland Premier’s husband, Greg Withers, to kill green schemes. That’s according to an article in today’s The Australian: “The showpiece of the Gillard government’s $1.5 billion Solar Flagships Program is now in jeopardy, after Mr Newman yesterday pulled the plug on $75 million in state funding pledged for the [...]
Labor Annihilation in Queensland Will Not be Repeated Federally, Because
Posted by jennifer, March 24th, 2012 - under Good Causes, Information.
Tags: Carbon Trading
Comments: 67
I live in Queensland, a very large, resource rich northern state. For too many years we’ve had Labor governments that have run with very populist themes and policies. And we’ve had Chief Scientists that have actively ignored evidence to implement Labor politics. [1] Tonight Queensland Labor was annihilated at the ballot box and will likely [...]
