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.
Election clue in MP speeches Simon Benson Chief Political Reporter From: The Daily Telegraph May 24, 2010 12:00AM An early Federal election … could still be called. RETIRING Federal Labor MPs have been told to prepare their farewell speeches for the current parliamentary sitting session in a sign the Government wants to clear the decks Continue Reading →
Ocean fish could vanish in 40 years: UN AAP May 18, 2010, 9:03 am The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts say. “If the various estimates we have received… come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years Continue Reading →
May 12, 2010 Preferential Voting in Australia At the request of political science colleagues, I have updated an article I wrote for the ABC’s 2004 federal election site that dealt with the history of preferential voting in Australia. In the article I tabulated how preferences have changed results at elections since 1949. As politicians and Continue Reading →
Sneaky new property tax in NSW: Libs AAP May 12, 2010, 4:01 pm Related Links Murray-Darling study recommends flow increase May 11, 2010, 6:00 pm International student college fails audit May 11, 2010, 5:43 pm Christmas Is asylum seekers costing $1b May 11, 2010, 7:47 pm More money for railways May 11, 2010, 7:52 pm Continue Reading →
‘Perverse subsidies’ to blame for wildlife loss, says UN Ecologist 10th May, 2010 Promises to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 have not been met by any national government, according to the UN, which is calling for taxes and incentives to encourage action The world is losing its biodiversity faster than ever before, despite world leaders Continue Reading →
Is there a medical condition leading governments to develop a contagion brought on by dealing with an obstructionist Senate? It’s a kind of Senatophobia, closely related to the stagnation or clotting of the government’s bloodstream.
The Rudd people have been thoroughly spooked by the Senate, aka ”unrepresentative swill” (Paul Keating), ”dinosaurs” (Gough Whitlam) and other choice epithets besides.
Anything contentious – which in the opposition’s eyes is just about everything – is being shelved, dodged or sunk, either because there was never much belief in it in the first place or in the hope one day nirvana will arrive and the government will have a majority in the red chamber.