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admin /4 April, 2010
New population minister a ‘red herring’
Updated 50 minutes ago
The federal Opposition says the Government’s decision to appoint a population minister is a response to pressure from the Coalition.
The Opposition is describing the Government’s new focus on population growth as a policy retreat.
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Tony Burke was appointed Population Minister yesterday and is expected to spend the next year developing a strategy.
The Opposition’s spokesman for sustainable cities, Bruce Bilson, says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has in the past expressed his support for what he called a “big Australia”.
He says there is no substance to yesterday’s announcement and its timing is suspicious.
“This has all the hallmarks of another Rudd red herring,” he said.
admin /3 April, 2010
3 April 2010 Population Minister cannot wait until after election foraction The Prime Minister’s appointment of a new PopulationMinister to investigate population strategy must be matched by actionsaid Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown. “After so many years of government failure on this issueI welcome the Prime Minister’s move to take up Australian Greens’ callfor a Continue Reading →
admin /2 April, 2010
Footprints 51 – Climate sceptics are on big-oil payroll
A Greenpeace investigation has identified a little-known, privately owned US oil company as the paymaster of global warming sceptics in the US and Europe.
From The Guardian www.greenpeace.org/international/news/dirty-money-climate-30032010.
Dear Friends
The environmental campaign group accuses Kansas-based Koch Industries, which owns refineries and operates oil pipelines, of funding 35 conservative and libertarian groups, as well as more than 20 congressmen and senators. Between them, Greenpeace says, these groups and individuals have spread misinformation about climate science and led a sustained assault on climate scientists and green alternatives to fossil fuels.
Greenpeace says that Koch Industries donated nearly $48m (£31.8m) to climate opposition groups between 1997-2008. From 2005-2008, it donated $25m to groups opposed to climate change, nearly three times as much as higher-profile funders that time such as oil company ExxonMobil. Koch also spent $5.7m on political campaigns and $37m on direct lobbying to support fossil fuels.
admin /31 March, 2010
Kristina Keneally won’t back the emergency service ‘wowsers’
POLICE warning … Premier Kristina Keneally. Picture: James Elsby Source: The Australian
POLICE officers said the State Government will have blood on its hands for alcohol-fuelled late-night attacks on emergency services workers after Premier Kristina Keneally described them as “wowsers”.
In an extraordinary move, Police Association vice-president Scott Weber said officers would hold the Government responsible for assaults that may have been prevented by proposed new laws.
The measures, called for by an unprecedented coalition of police, doctors and paramedics, would ban strong drinks after 10pm and force pubs to lock their doors to new patrons at 1am.
The comments came as local councils and cab drivers also urged the Government to consider introducing the new restrictions. But the Government backs the pubs and clubs industry in opposing the move.
admin /29 March, 2010
White farmers ‘being wiped out’
Over 3,000 have been killed since 1994. Now the ANC is accused of fanning the hate.
A man walks through a field of crosses erected near Pretoria, South Africa, to honour mostly white farmers who have died in farm attacks over past decade.
Dan McDougall in Ceres, Western Cape
THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers.
Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room.
As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest.
In his death throes he would have seen his killers and then his children standing over him, screaming and crying.
The attackers, who were drug addicts, simply disappeared into the night. Cillier’s murder, at Christmas, was barely reported in the local press. It was, after all, everyday news.
admin /29 March, 2010
White farmers ‘being wiped out’
Over 3,000 have been killed since 1994. Now the ANC is accused of fanning the hate.
A man walks through a field of crosses erected near Pretoria, South Africa, to honour mostly white farmers who have died in farm attacks over past decade.
Dan McDougall in Ceres, Western Cape
THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers.
Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room.
As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest.
In his death throes he would have seen his killers and then his children standing over him, screaming and crying.
