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.

Rudd does the right thing by Labor

admin /24 June, 2010

Rudd does the right thing by Labor

  • Dennis Shanahan, Political Editor
  • From: The Australian
  • June 24, 2010 9:38AM
  • 46 comments
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Faced with an overwhelmingly and humiliating defeat the Prime Minister decided to pull the plug at the last minute and stop the hurt for Labor.

After Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan had signalled a joint team as leader and deputy on the way into the caucus room this morning it was clear Rudd had no chance.

Despite his vow to fight and declaration he could win after announcing the challenge last night the numbers and reality have run against Rudd.

But he’s done the decent thing for himself and the ALP and decided not run.

Gillard will now be Prime Minister and Wayne Swan the Deputy Prime Minister.

Tony Abbott faces a new challenge in Gillard but the leadership change for Labor is not without enormous pain and danger.

GILLARD POISED TO DEFEAT RUDD

admin /23 June, 2010

Gillard poised to defeat Rudd

By political editor Chris Uhlmann

Posted 9 minutes ago

Kevin Rudd is spending one last long night as Prime Minister.

Shortly after 10:15pm he announced that he had acceded to a request from his deputy Julia Gillard to spill the leadership at a ballot to be held at 9:00am AEST today.

“It’s important I believe, in the interests of the Party and the Government, for these matters to be resolved as a matter of urgency,” he said.

His supporters say the party vote is evenly poised. The Gillard camp says she had the numbers before making a single call.

He is unlikely to survive the ballot, which should install Ms Gillard as Australia’s 27th prime minister and its first female leader.

Mr Rudd called a late night press conference after a long meeting with Ms Gillard and party elder statesman, John Faulkner.

The moves against Mr Rudd began several weeks ago when one of Mr Rudd’s supporters, New South Wales right powerbroker Mark Arbib, approached his Victorian counterpart David Feeney to sound out the possibility of a leadership change.

That was prompted by a series of disastrous polls which showed the Prime Minister’s approval plummeting and taking the party’s primary vote with it.

Yesterday morning the two powerbrokers met with Ms Gillard. They returned at noon saying that they could guarantee the support of the majority of right wing Caucus members in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.

They told the Deputy Prime Minister that the party would lose the election if Mr Rudd continued to lead it. They said they believe the party will win under Ms Gillard.

Governments refuse to act to save builders as ‘junk’ insurance schemes collapse

admin /23 June, 2010

Governments refuse to act to save builders as ‘junk’ insurance schemescollapse Canberra, Wednesday 23 June 2010 Many builders across Australia will be forced to operate illegally orclose their doors after June 30 if governments fail to remove themandatory requirement for Last Resort Home Builders’ Warranty Insurance. Today in the Senate, the Rudd government refused to Continue Reading →

Greens call for immediate increase to aged care funding

admin /23 June, 2010

Greens call for immediate increase to aged care funding Wednesday 23 June, 2010 The Federal Government has again demonstrated its lack of understandingof Australia’s aged care needs, failing to commit to the immediatefunding increase called for by the aged care sector and supported by theAustralian Greens. Senator Rachel Siewert, Greens spokesperson for Health and Ageing Continue Reading →

Big swings against Kevin Rudd in key marginals

admin /22 June, 2010

The Govt will also lose seats in  WA, which has not been highlighted here.
 
Neville Gillmore.
 
Big swings against Kevin Rudd in key marginals

 
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Newspoll, June 22, 2010 Source: The Australian

 

SUPPORT for Labor has crashed so far in marginal seats in Queensland and western Sydney that the government would lose an election now.

Seats Labor won in 2007 in regional Queensland and outer Sydney, which effectively delivered its victory, are showing swings against the ALP of between 6 per cent and 12 per cent and voters have turned against the Prime Minister.

Gas found after N Korean nuclear fusion claims

admin /21 June, 2010

Gas found after N Korean nuclear fusion claims

By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy

Posted 4 hours 30 minutes ago

South Korean officials have revealed that scientists detected high levels of radioactive gas after the communist North claimed it had successfully staged a nuclear fusion reaction last month.

North Korea announced last month it had conducted a nuclear fusion reaction, a claim met with much scepticism in the South because of the technical difficulties of staging such an experiment.

But now officials in Seoul have revealed that South Korean scientists detected extremely high levels of xenon gas near the border between the two Koreas.

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