Greens candidate for Griffith, Geoff Ebbs, told ZZZs EcoRadio today why he thinks climate change has not been on the agenda for this election but why he still thinks there is value in .the political process. There are two sound files here. Hear Geoff talking about the politics of climate change and vested interests. Hear Continue Reading →
Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is under attack at the 17th round of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations underway in Lima. It is not just the cheap drugs enjoyed by Australia thanks to this brilliant scheme, it is the very question of national sovereignty. The Australian delegation is winning accolades around the world for its stand Continue Reading →
UN Believe Switch to a Green Economy will Create 60 Million Jobs Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:21 PM PDT Despite the continuing economic difficulties faced around the world, and the subsequent falling levels of investment as governments try to reduce their budgets, the UN is still pushing to create green jobs as part of a Continue Reading →
The Green movement is founded on simple beliefs that resonate with a broad section of the community. Despite this, voters’ lack of confidence in Green economic policy has stopped them turning to The Greens at the ballot box. “The Australian Labor Party is associated with the carbon tax and with these nutty fruity ideas … Continue Reading →
A serious study of the future of humanity, such as the ongoing review of the Millenium Development Goals, indicates that humanity is not guaranteed to succeed in its attempts to avoid a major collapse.
The Millenium Development Goals, well described in the book World Poverty for Dummies, are more than half way through the time allotted for their enaction. On most of them, we are less than half way toward achieving those goals.
This in itself is not alarming, goals are always aspirational and need to be reviewed.
What is alarming is that the key headline aim is to avoid the end of civilisation, and that is a project which we would prefer to succeed. The key aim is to tackle world poverty and so prevent the richest nations maintaining their wealth at the expense (and possibly death) of the majority of the world’s poor.
WHEN Kevin Rudd rhetorically promised in the 2007 election campaign to do something about rising petrol and grocery prices, he was making a promise he could not keep.
Yesterday, after the waste of millions in taxpayers’ funds, the Rudd government conceded that reality and dumped its promise.
This is a broken election promise, a betrayal of expectations of voters and a repudiation of Rudd’s promise, a promise that was always a pretence.