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Stop the Sell Off CFMEU
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1:09 PM (2 hours ago)to meDear Neville,
This Saturday, we have the opportunity to Stop the Sell Off of our electricity network and to send Tony Abbott a message.Mike Baird wants to sell our poles and wires to the China state-owned company China Southern Power Grid. This would see the NSW economy lose $1.7 billion in profits that help pay for our hospitals, schools, TAFEs and apprenticeships.
When the electricity networks in Victoria and South Australia were sold off power bills increased, jobs were lost, and complaints skyrocketed. The same thing will happen here in New South Wales if the Liberals get their way, hurting families and communities.
Make sure you watch and share the ad we’re showing around NSW in the last week of the campaign.
Selling the electricity network is wrong. Selling it to another country is just not on. And Mike Baird is not going to be a Premier who will stand up to Tony Abbott.
Put the Liberals and Nationals last this Saturday.
In unity
The CFMEU
P.S. Want to learn more about why selling our electricity network is bad policy? Find out here.
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Save Renewables with Dr John Hewson
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Below is an important message to GetUp members from Dr John Hewson AM, former leader of the Liberal Party, economist and company director. Your details have not been shared with anyone. You can join with Dr Hewson taking action to save the Renewable Energy Target by switching your power to the greenest energy retailer in under 5 minutes: click here to switch now
Dear NEVILLE
Yesterday, there was some deeply disappointing news concerning our fight for a strong renewable energy powered future.
The renewable energy industry — brow beaten after years of intense lobbying from the big 3 dirty power companies and a vicious offensive from the Coalition, struggling with significant job losses and decline in investment — caved and reluctantly accepted a huge cut to the Renewable Energy Target (RET). They did this to save their industry, which is under attack. The outcome of this deal would be far from ideal, but our government wants a fate for the industry that is even worse. The death of the renewables industry, and the (short term) rise of the dirty 3: Origin, AGL and Energy Australia.
As a former leader of the Liberal Party I’ve seen first hand the undue influence big corporations can have over politicians and public policy. It’s time to shift the balance away from the big energy companies and their dirty and expensive power habits to Australian consumers who want cheaper and cleaner power.
The dirty 3 companies are the main reason the Abbott Government is squibbing on its clear election promise to keep the RET at 41,000GWH. All three are complete hypocrites. They claim to support renewable energy while walking the corridors of power, lobbying to undermine it.
And, unlike renewable energy backed companies, they’ve been getting away with screwing households on their electricity bills by hitting customers with almost obscene profit margins as energy retailers too.
We don’t need government legislation to break the strangle hold these big power companies have on our household energy, or our own clean energy futures. The dirty energy companies might want to protect their huge investments in coal, gas and coal seam gas, but we can — right now — stop them in their tracks.
How?
Join me in sending a powerful message to politicians and the dirty power companies that Australians want renewable energy and we’re prepared to vote with our feet to get it. Switch your home or business power, it takes less than 5 minutes and you’ll be joining the greenest power company in Australia: click here to switch now
It’s the one thing they will not be counting on, and right now it’s the very best thing that you can do if you support renewable energy, our clean energy future and the job creation and investment it brings.
Yesterday’s outcome is indisputably bad for all of us; for future investment in large scale renewable energy projects and job creation, for our clean energy future and for our power prices.
How did we even get to the point where even the industry that fought so hard for the RET is now accepting a drastically watered down stake in their own future success? You can point the finger squarely at the influence big companies like AGL, Energy Australia and Origin have on public policy, companies with a vested interest in bolstering the status quo of fossil fuel dominance and who have ensured the Coalition break their pre-election promise not to cut the Renewable Energy Target. [1]
These companies only really care about one thing – and that’s their profits. So let’s hit them where it hurts and switch to a company that supports clean energy and is backed by 100 percent renewable power.
Will you join me and thousands of GetUp members switching their energy supplier, and showing your support for clean energy? Click here: it takes just five minutes online to switch off the dirty 3 energy companies.
Sincerely,
John Hewson AM.PS Want to know more about the campaign or about Powershop? click here to find out more.
[1] “Tony Abbott launching a full frontal attack on the Renewable Energy Industry”, Guardian Australia, February 6th 2014
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12:48 PM (2 hours ago) Thank you for your email regarding renewable energy in NSW. There can be no new approach for New South Wales without a bold agenda for environmental protection and climate change. That is why I recently announced the most comprehensive environment plan ever presented to the people of NSW. A plan that a Foley Labor Government would implement to protect our environment. On page 21 of the Environment Policy document attached, you will find information on my commitment to renewable energy. Other highlights include: $150 million to create new national parks including the Great Koala National Park and a series of conservation reserves in Northern NSW to save the koala from extinction; Creation of a Sydney Marine Park – the final piece in the jigsaw of the state’s marine protected areas running from Pittwater to Port Hacking and restoring sanctuary zones in existing marine parks; A statewide moratorium on coal seam gas activity, and a permanent ban in the Northern Rivers region and the core drinking water catchments. 2 km buffer zones will operate around National Parks and RAMSAR listed wetlands and a 2 km buffer zone, above and below ground around residential areas; A Healthy Rivers Commission to improve the health of NSW’s rivers. NSW has the most degraded rivers in the country with only 3% considered healthy; and $4 million to support voluntary wildlife carers, the unsung heroes of wildlife protection. They care for injured wildlife in their homes and voluntary hospitals across the state. I have also committed to installing solar panels in all public schools in NSW, reducing their power bills, supporting the renewable energy sector and teaching kids about environmental sustainability. This $70 million investment will help our schools become more energy efficient and generate clean, renewable solar power. I have attached the Solar for Schools policy for your interest. If you are interested in finding out more about Labor’s new approach for NSW, please visit: http://act.nswlabor.org.au/policy Kind regards Luke FoleyNSW Labor LeaderShadow Minister for InfrastructureShadow Minister for the EnvironmentShadow Minister for Western Sydney 2 Attachments
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Black Communities Matter Larissa & Brooke – Common Grace
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5:23 PM (12 minutes ago)to meDear Neville, Are you horrified to hear of the WA Premier’s plan to close 150 Aboriginal communities?The church cannot repeat the sins of the past, and be silent and complicit in the forced removal of Aboriginal people from their spiritual homelands.
WA Premier Colin Barnett plans to force the closure of 150 Aboriginal communities, and has made this decision without consulting those who call these communities home.
Before making decisions with such huge impacts for Aboriginal people, a full impact assessment and public consultation process must be engaged in. The voices of those for whom these communities are their homes, their traditional lands and their history must be heard. If this goes ahead a dangerous precedent would be set for all of Australia. (Here’s the best summary we’ve seen so far.)
We believe that as Christians we must ACT in solidarity with our Aboriginal brothers and sisters.
So in PRAYER we ask for your ACTION today! Add your name to ask the WA Premier to cease any decisions on the funding or closures of 150 Indigenous homeland communities.
Blessings,
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Save our SBS Margaret Pomeranz and Quentin Dempster – GetUp!
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3:20 PM (25 minutes ago)to meThe government is proposing major changes to SBS’s advertising arrangements – which, if passed, would see primetime broadcasting interrupted with more ads, more frequently, than ever seen in Australia’s public broadcasting history. SBS will look no different from commercial TV.Read on for a message from former SBS and ABC TV presenter Margaret Pomeranz, and public broadcasting advocate and journalist Quentin Dempster, on what you can do to stop this proposal in its tracks – and click here to sign the petition: www.getup.org.au/saveoursbs
NEVILLE –
The SBS amendment bill was just introduced in Parliament today. This is the bill that, if passed, will see the doubling of ads and commercials breaks on our SBS, effectively turning it into Australia’s fourth fully commercial TV channel.
Why’s this bad? Because the SBS was never intended to be a fully commercial TV channel. Increased advertising will restrict the broadcaster from meeting its Charter obligations. The late Malcolm Fraser and his Coalition Government established the SBS on the back of the Whitlam Labor Government’s initiative, to address a gap in services for an increasingly diverse community. Further commercialisation of our SBS will see the needs of the advertiser put before the needs of the community.
Since putting the call out, more than 47,000 Australians have joined the campaign to protect the integrity of our SBS. Will you add your name to our petition urging the Federal Parliament to reject the further
commercialisation of our SBS? www.getup.org.au/saveoursbsThe introduction of product placement will remove the independence of probing journalism and restrict what presenters may say. Having a product placed on set, within programs will severely diminish the integrity of the SBS, as presenters would be gagged from making any comment that could be perceived to negatively portray the product or associated companies being advertised.
SBS has been home to some of the best Australian content, from quality dramas to world-class movies and documentaries. SBS Radio connects newcomers in an inclusive way, while SBS World News Australia brings us world news that is often neglected by other broadcasters. This is what we love most about our SBS. Sadly, this will all be put at risk if this bill passes.
Putting more advertising on SBS is the Government’s way of removing public funding from its budget. It’s a cut.
Before the last federal election, Prime Minister Abbott went on SBS and promised there would be “no cuts to the ABC or SBS”. Having already broken one of those promises, we’re certainly not going to let him break another and ruin our SBS forever.
We’ll be doing everything we can to get the word out about the damage these changes will cause. However, we’re going to need your help if we’re to demonstrate we have the support of the Australian public. Let our politicians know that we want a strong and robust public broadcaster.
Join us and the Save Our SBS campaign to fight for a non-commercial future for our multicultural broadcaster: www.getup.org.au/saveoursbs
With every good wish,
Margaret Pomeranz and Quentin Dempster
GetUp is an independent, not-for-profit community campaigning group. We use new technology to empower Australians to have their say on important national issues. We receive no political party or government funding, and every campaign we run is entirely supported by voluntary donations. If you’d like to contribute to help fund GetUp’s work, please donate now! To unsubscribe from GetUp, please click here. Our team acknowledges that we meet and work on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We wish to pay respect to their Elders – past, present and future – and acknowledge the important role all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within Australia and the GetUp community.
