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.
admin /28 July, 2010
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Dear Neville,
Yesterday we were shocked to hear Opposition Leader Tony Abbott announce he will stop creating marine sanctuaries around Australia if elected Prime Minister.
So let’s get as many people as possible on the phones to Tony – tell him to get a snorkel to go with those budgie smugglers and take a look at what’s beneath the waves. Call Tony today on (03) 8616 5100.
While our marine life buckles under the pressure of pollution, overfishing, and the destruction of marine habitats, Tony’s vision is to do nothing. Protection of our Kimberley and South West marine life are now under serious threat.
admin /28 July, 2010
Media Release 28 July 2010 Income management expansion unacceptable: Greens The Australian Greens have criticised Tony Abbott’s announcement that aLiberal Government would consider a nationwide expansion of incomemanagement. Senator Rachel Siewert, Greens spokesperson for Community Affairs todaysaid the Greens are the only party who have consistently opposed incomemanagement, doing so since it was introduced as Continue Reading →
admin /28 July, 2010
NB. Support your Greens Candidate to stop this rot.
No political bias in grants scheme: Albanese
By Brendan Trembath
Updated 1 hour 22 minutes ago
An auditor’s review of the Federal Government’s $550 million infrastructure grants program has found that applications in Labor seats were more than twice as likely to be approved as projects in Coalition-held electorates.
In the midst of the global financial crisis in late 2008, the Labor Government put up more than half a billion dollars for infrastructure projects to help provide jobs for thousands of workers.
The auditor-general’s report says the approval rate for applications from ALP-held electorates was 42.1 per cent, compared to 18.4 per cent in seats held by the Coalition.
admin /28 July, 2010
July 28th 2010 Greens call for national rural land and water register Speaking in Orange, NSW today Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown calledfor a national register of foreign purchases of land or water in ruralAustralia. “In the coming century food and fibre production will be a huge issue asthe world population soars to 10 billion Continue Reading →
admin /28 July, 2010
Labor tells us in NSW – drop dead
What about KK, PM? … NSW misses out again. Source: The Daily Telegraph
NSW looks set to again be denied road and rail infrastructure funding with Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday promising almost $1 billion in new projects – all for marginal seats in Queensland.
The best that could be promised for Sydney yesterday was 16 new hospital beds for Concord Hospital.
Senior Labor figures have confirmed there was little likelihood pools of cash would be flowing into NSW – despite pleas from Premier Kristina Keneally for federal money for the M4 East or M5 duplication.
admin /28 July, 2010
All hope, no real action on filthy campaign lucre
LEE RHIANNON
July 28, 2010
With the federal election just weeks away and seven months before the state one, the political fund-raising season is on again in earnest. Promises from state and federal Labor and Coalition leaders to deliver electoral funding reform before these elections appear forgotten. Money politics appears as entrenched as ever.
Australian democracy has been diminished by more than a decade of political donations bankrolling Labor and the Coalition parties. While there are few cases in which a direct link has been established between donations to a party and favours delivered for the donor, the public perception is that the system is corrupt.
These parties have raised well over $300 million over the past decade, so it is understandable the link between donations and deals has become so damaging for the older parties.
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