Category: Sustainable Settlement and Agriculture

The Generator is founded on the simple premise that we should leave the world in better condition than we found it. The news items in this category outline the attempts people have made to do this. They are mainly concerned with our food supply and settlement patterns. The impact that the human race has on the planet.

Round and round with parade of leaders.

admin /2 August, 2010

Round and round with parade of leaders

August 2, 2010

 

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott both claim that the election campaign is about to get nasty.

Should Labor lose this election, Tony Abbott would be Australia’s third prime minister in two months and its fourth in three years.

The opposition leader who emerged after what would be a monumental bloodbath inside Labor would be the nation’s fifth in three years.

If Labor loses on August 21, it would be the equivalent of the Liberals blowing up John Howard and Peter Costello in one term.

Until Labor nosedived this year, the orthodox view was that Kevin Rudd would be prime minister for at least two terms before Julia Gillard took over to prolong the life of the government.

He was dumped as leader because he was disliked. Now he is loathed if only because he is blamed, rightly or wrongly, for the leaks that have torn Labor’s campaign apart.

Rudd’s legacy is on a precipice. If the party loses, he will be consigned a permanent place in Labor’s gallery of villains, alongside Mark Latham, Billy Hughes and Mal Colston.

If, following the removal of his gall bladder – the organ which, incidentally, produces bile – he helps the government in Queensland and it wins, he will be given foreign affairs and there will be a measure of gratitude.

If Labor loses, Gillard also will be shot. She took the leadership promising to fix the problems and get the government back on track.

Abbott’s policy to create ‘aged care Crisis’

admin /1 August, 2010

Abbott’s policy to create ‘aged care crisis’

By Tim Leslie

Posted 1 hour 40 minutes ago

A nurse walks down a hospital corridor

The ANF says freeing up beds without providing additional funding for nursing staff will only escalate issues already facing the sector. (www.sxc.hu: Bubbels, file

The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has slammed Tony Abbott’s aged care announcement, saying it will create a “crisis in care”.

Mr Abbott today announced a Coalition government would spend $335 million to get 3,000 beds for high-care patients operational during its first term.

But ANF spokeswoman Yvonne Chaperon says freeing up the beds without providing additional funding for nursing staff will only escalate issues already facing the sector.

“Nurses are already leaving aged care. They are underpaid by up to $300 per week when compared to nurses in the public sector, and often have to work long and difficult shifts,” she said in a statement.

Greens seek to capitalise on voter frustration

admin /1 August, 2010

Greens seek to capitalise on voter frustration

By online political correspondent Emma Rodgers

Updated 9 minutes ago

Bob Brown launches Greens election campaign

Bob Brown rallied the faithful and sought to capitalise on the recent leadership strife in both major parties. (AAP: Stefan Postles)

Bob Brown has appealed to voters who are frustrated with the major parties to put their trust in the Greens at the upcoming election.

Officially launching The Greens’ election campaign in Canberra today, Senator Brown rallied the faithful and sought to capitalise on the recent leadership strife in both parties in a pitch to undecided voters.

“I offer to Australians who are frustrated with the bickering, the short-sightedness, the leadership spills and the failure of vision of this country, a Greens party which not only for the future in our promise, but on our record, has shown a stability neither of the big parties have shown,” he said.

Greens target swing voters in record ad campaign

admin /31 July, 2010

Greens target swing voters in record ad campaign

Updated 4 hours 0 minutes ago

Greens leader Bob Brown.

Bob Brown says opinion polls indicate people are becoming disillusioned with the major parties. (AAP)

The Australian Greens Party is launching new television advertisements which will air nationwide tomorrow night.

It is the biggest election advertising campaign ever run by the Greens.

Greens leader Bob Brown says opinion polls indicate people are becoming disillusioned with the major parties.

He says the ads are targeting those wavering voters.

“They highlight the changing pattern of voting in Australia to the Greens,” he said.

“I’m continuing to run into people who have voted Labor or Liberal all their lives and are voting Greens this time.”

Leaking labor’s ship is sinking fast

admin /31 July, 2010

 

Piers again.  Let’s hope that the dissident voters “MOVE FORWARD” to the

Greens.Labor thoroughly deserves to lose.
 
Neville Gillmore.

Leaking Labor’s ship is sinking fast

 

Piers Akerman

Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 05:26pm

 

 

TWENTY days out from the election, and the Nielsen poll gives Labor a 52-48 lead – reflecting the electorate’s decision to ignore Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s nagging exhortation to “move forward.”

Labor is bogged in a damaging quagmire of speculation watered by leaks about Ms Gillard’s role in the Rudd Cabinet.

The three most corrosive leaks centre on her welshing on the reported deal struck with former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the evening of June 23, which would have permitted him to remain in office until at least October; also the report that Rudd did not bother attending meetings of the Cabinet National Security Committee and instead delegated members of his young staff to meet with the generals, admirals and intelligence chiefs.

Most harmful was the report that Gillard initially argued against increasing pensions and also opposed the parental leave scheme.

Final report into Black Saturday relased

admin /31 July, 2010

Final report into Black Saturday released

Updated 21 minutes ago

Victoria’s Bushfires Royal Commission has recommended sweeping policy changes in response to the Black Saturday and Gippsland bushfires.

After 155 days of hearings, including evidence from more than 400 witnesses, the Royal Commission has handed down its final report with 67 recommendations.

The commissioners have called for a “comprehensive approach to evacuation” including the potential for “emergency evacuations” when doing so would provide a greater level of protection.

The report has also called for designated community refuges in areas of high bushfire risk and for the appointment of an independent fire commissioner.

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