The front page of the Oz revealed today that advertising guru Neil Lawrence has moved seamlessly from Kev to coal. The architect of the Kevin07 campaign is going to be lending his creative services to the coal industry in their attempts to extract even more public subsidies from the Government in order to avoid having [...]
“The YOUthdecide campaign was met with anticipation and excitement by the majority of young people – but is a campaign that has fundamentally betrayed the hopes and dreams of a generation.” - Young Liberal, in a Facebook note.
“The world I choose is one where people like you are thrown into an active volcano” – email [...]
Just found out about this day that’s happening this weekend – so in case any of you are building or renovating or living in a house – you can get more information on how to do it sustainably. It’s this Sunday and houses across Australia are opened to show you how to live more sustainably. [...]
Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Dr Rajendra Rachauri, said today in an interview with Agence France Presse reporter Marlowe Hood:
“As chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) I cannot take a position because we do not make recommendations,” said Rajendra Pachauri when asked if he supported calls to keep atmospheric [...]
Ok, sorry about the tabloid title, but this is a pretty disturbing story. Following my earlier post about the Pacific Island Forum, here is the analysis of the PIF from Shirley Atatagi – climate political advisor for Greenpeace in the Pacific.
International climate negotiations just got dirty, even if the final stage hasn’t started. Australia and [...]
Pacific leaders are meeting in Cairns today for the Pacific Island Forum. In recent years the agenda has been dominated by issues of regional stability including the intervention in the Solomons and more recently the troubling political events in Fiji. But with the forum happening in Australia for the first time in over a decade, [...]
Dear Martin,
Thanks for your brilliant treatise in the Australian this morning. It is inspiring to see that one with so much responsibility is blessed with such vision.
The rigour with which you swept away ideology and ‘green faith’ with cold hard facts revealed your own unswerving commitment to rational analysis and objectivity. It was a shame [...]
A new film clip from a Melbourne-based hip-hop artist celebrates the joy of two-wheelers.
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