Pollution up
Read the Climate Institute’s analysis on Gillard and Abbott failing on climate change. www.climateinstitute.org.au
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Tag Archives: Environmental crisis
Water Reform Fails South Australia
Water Reform Fails South Australia from John Caldecott ‘The former Senior Adviser on Water to the United Nations and international critic of water market reforms Maude Barlow said that both “Labor and Coalition parties have so far failed to propose solutions to address the continuing emergency in South Australia’s River Murray. “The entire Murray-Darling basin, [...]
Environment
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ACT Senate environment debate
This is your chance to ask the lead ACT Senate candidates their views on climate change and what their party will do to reduce emissions if elected. The debate on the environmental crisis is vital. ACT Greens with Lin Hatfield Dodds – after Kate Lundy ALP Senator on no1 seat – are campaigning to gain [...]
OHS should be election issue
Letter reproduced by Andy Alcock to The Editor The Independent Weekly, Adelaide. HEALTH & SAFETY AT WORK Congratulations for publishing the timely article by Dr Kevin Purse about work-related deaths, injuries and disease and the need for more reliable monitoring of compliance levels with OHS&W laws in Australia (Are you safe at work? – TIW [...]
SEARCH on the election
Deeper challenges with the 2010 federal election Statement of the SEARCH Foundation Committee, July 21, 2010 The best outcome from the high-stakes federal election campaign now underway would be the return of a Labor government with the Greens holding the balance of power in the Senate, and perhaps making a breakthrough into the House of [...]
On water
From Water Wars to the Fight for Climate Justice Bolivia’s UN ambassador, Pablo Solón, gave this talk to the Shout Out for Global Justice, sponsored by the Council of Canadians and attended by nearly 3,000 people on June 25 in Toronto, during the ten days of protests against the G20 meeting. Other speakers included Maude [...]
Climate change politics
WILL THE NEW PM ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE? by Geoff Lazarus With the ascension of Julia Gillard to PM many Australians will be asking themselves whether Labor will finally deliver on the ‘great moral challenge of our times’ that Kevin Rudd and his Ministers postured over time and again in the last two years. It [...]
