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From: Adam Bandt <info@adambandt.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:23 PM
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Neville – This afternoon I joined with Andrew Wilkie in Parliament to move a …
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Senate voting reform – the bill drops
2 of 25[New post] Senate voting reform – the bill drops
Inboxx The Tally Room Ben Raue posted: “So we now have the government’s legislation for Senate voti…12:36 PM (3 hours ago) Neville Gillmore <nevilleg729@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:36 PM
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To: nevilleg729@gmail.comNew post on The Tally Room
Senate voting reform – the bill drops
by Ben Raue
So we now have the government’s legislation for Senate voting reform. You can read it here.
The key points are as follows.
Abolition of group voting tickets
From now on there won’t be any distribution of preferences beyond a single party group unless the voter marks it themselves on the ballot.
Introduction of optional preferential voting above the line
From now on you will be allowed to number as many boxes as you want above the line, and your vote will flow through each party group in ticket order.
The ballot paper will carry instructions saying the voter must number “at least 6” boxes above the line, although that would revert to being full compulsory preferential voting if six or less groups nominate.
Having said that, votes just containing a ‘1’ above the line will be formal, and there is no “Langer clause” which would prevent parties or other groups advocating for a person to number less than six boxes above the line.
No major changes to below-the-line voting
Despite JSCEM recommending optional preferential voting below the line, this bill only slightly loosens the requirements for below-the-line voting. You’ll still need to number most boxes for your vote to count, but you’ll be allowed up to five sequencing errors, up from the current three.
Party logos on the ballot paper
This one wasn’t expected! Presumably this is motivated by Liberal concern about confusion with the Liberal Democrats. It’s not unheard-of: New Zealand has party logos on the ballot.
Prohibition on being Registered Officer of multiple parties
This is to address the concern about David Leyonhjelm being the registered officer (who is the official who liaises with the AEC and nominates candidates) of multiple parties.
I will have some more commentary this evening about the political impact of the reforms, but feel free to use this post to discuss the reforms as they unfold today.
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Your story is the future of health
Your story is the future of health
Inboxx Ruby – GetUp! Dear NEVILLE, When it comes to the wonky details of healthcare funding, it’s …9:02 AM (12 hours ago) 
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From: Ruby – GetUp! <info@getup.org.au>
Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Your story is the future of health
To: nevilleg729@gmail.comDear NEVILLE,When it comes to the wonky details of healthcare funding, it’s all too easy to lose sight of what cuts to universal healthcare and Medicare privatisation are really about – each and every one of us.
Prime Minister Turnbull’s so-called “efficiencies” will mean fewer beds and longer waiting times in our hospitals, and Australians turned away from their GPs because they can’t afford treatment.
That’s why we’re taking the fight for universal healthcare online with one of the most powerful tools in the world – storytelling. As tens of thousands of Australians rally in the streets today for a National Day of Health Action, we’ll flood social media with our individual experiences and remind our politicians why we need to protect our Medicare.
The tale of universal healthcare is about more than media headlines or numbers on a balance sheet. It’s about all of us, and we can only get that story heard by speaking together.
Our nifty tool instantly transforms your stories into an image to share with the world. Imagine the lump in your throat as you see story after story, intertwined on social media, about Australians relying on our healthcare system in times of need.
In a matter of days, over 60,000 Australians have signed onto the campaign to stop the Americanisation of Medicare. Imagine all of them, sharing powerful health stories with the hundreds and thousands of people in their networks.
Together, we can prove that the public conversation about healthcare comes down to every single of us – not dollar figures and balancing budgets. Through the power of storytelling we can show Australia that –
- Protecting bulk-billing incentives for pathology services isn’t about budget savings. It’s about making sure a single mother can get her daughter a potentially life-saving test without falling behind on bills.
- Standing to make sure medical payments services stay out of corporate hands isn’t about “efficiency”. It’s about ensuring the decision to give a homeless man publicly funded care isn’t made by a profit-motivated company.
- Fighting to restore cuts to hospital funding isn’t about balancing books. It’s about providing an elderly woman with a hospital bed for as long as she needs it.
The battle to protect universal healthcare starts here and now – with ordinary Australians sharing their health stories in a breathtaking act of collective, online storytelling.
Click here to share your story now.
Health is gearing up to be a major issue in the coming federal election. Together, we can make sure that protecting our universal healthcare system is centre-stage at every debate.
Thank you for stepping up for Medicare,
Ruby, Nat and Daney, for the GetUp teamPS – Need a reminder of what’s at stake?
- $50 billion in cuts to our local hospitals, culling beds and lengthening waiting times
- Ordinary Australians unable to afford essential pathology services, such as pap smears
- Profit-driven corporations calling the shots on who is eligible to receive publicly-funded care
- Our private medical data in the hands of for-profit providers
- A copayment by stealth, with the continued freeze to the Medicare rebate.
PPS – A big shout out to the powerful coalition of grounds involved in Saturday’s rallies, including our friends at #TheseCutsAreKillingUs, the CPSU, Nurses Association, HSU, ASMOF, ACTU and state and regional trades halls.
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.
Authorised by Paul Oosting, Level 14, 338 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000.
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6:43 AM (1 hour ago)to JohnThe John James Newsletter 10520 February 2016A nation that is afraid to let us judge truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its peopleJohn F. KennedyCompassion and understanding arise from an awareness that we are all reflections of each otherTom FeeleyWashington’s Machiavellian Game in SyriaThe world’s most powerful Superpower did not come to that position without extraordinary skills, cunning, a remarkable ability to lie convincingly, to deceive, to precisely manipulate the weaknesses of their opponents. Around late March or April it will be clear. The US has lured not only Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but now Moscow into their trap in the Middle East. The initial losers in this unfolding deadly game will be Saudi, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and likely Russia.Europe is disintegrating while its citizens watch indifferentWe are witnessing the slow agony of the dream of European integration, disintegrating without a single demonstration occuring anywhere. European institutions are in an existential crisis but the debate??http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/02/europe-is-disintegrating-while-its-citizens-watch-indifferent/
The Great TurningThe shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization. The ecological and social crises we face are caused by an economic system dependent on accelerating growth.Four billion people facing severe water scarcityTwo-thirds of the global population live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least 1 month of the year. Nearly half live in India and China. Half a billion people severe water scarcity all year round.Methane’s Role in Arctic WarmingGreenhouse gas levels are higher over the Arctic than elsewhere on Earth, gasses that would otherwise be radiated out to space. The first image shows higher CO2 levels at higher latitudes north over 410 ppm. In the second that methane levels of over 1900 ppb over most of the Arctic Ocean on February 4, 2016. Surely these two events are connected!The consequences of CSIRO climate cutsNational and global interests were at stake in CSIRO’s decision to axe about 110 of the 140 present staff involved in two key climate monitoring and modelling programsThe elephant whisperer / march funebreMusic honours the deep intelligence and sentiment of the highly ordered society of elephants who trekked for 2 days without eating or drinking to reach Lawrence Anthony’s house, following his death. He was the extraordinary supporter of wildlife, conservationist, rehabilitator of elephants worldwide. They stayed 3 days, still not eating nor drinking then quietly trekked home.Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuseChronic consumption of sugar in rats who were not stressed produced similar changes in the hippocampus as rats who were stressed but not drinking sugar. Drinking sugar or exposure to early life stress reduced the expression of genes critical for brain development and growth.Russian Diplomat Drops a Bombshell: US Expected ISIS to Seize Damascus by OctoberThe US was planning to start a bombing campaign to overthrow the government knowing that by October in the victory of the Islamic State and its capture of Damascus. To stop the US proclaiming a no-fly zone – i.e. commencing a bombing campaign aimed at overthrowing the Syrian government – Russia intervened in Syria.Hillary Clinton and the Syrian BloodbathIt was US intransigence – Clinton’s intransigence – that led to the failure of Annan’s peace efforts in the spring of 2012, a point well known among diplomats.Understanding Islamic State: where does it come from and what does it want?IS is an instance of a phenomenon that recurs in most religions, and certainly in all monotheistic religions. Every so often militant strains emerge, flourish temporarily, then vanish. If the recent past has demonstrated one thing, it’s that IS thrives when its adversaries underestimate it.The true cost of bushfiresLong-burning massive bushfires is the new normal as climate change causes more heatwaves of greater intensity. The number of professional firefighters would need to double by 2030 in a hotter and drier climate.andThe Pope, the Patriarch — and a Little Bit of PutinThe focus on the state of Christianity in the Middle East is a public relations win for the Russian Orthodox Church, which is trying to shore up its position in Russia by presenting itself as the defender of persecuted Christians around the world. “This meeting allows them to play a large public role and sell it back in Russia,”Apple launches $1.5bn green bondTechnology giant is raising finance for renewable energy, greener materials and efficiencyThe real reason for the war on cashIt is political: holders of currency could undermine their brave new monetary world of negative interest rates. Japan and Europe are already deep into negative territory, and US is preparing for the possibility.10 Secret Armies of the Central Intelligence AgencyWould US intelligence secretly back a brutal, murderous paramilitary group to destabilize a country on the US hit list? Of course. The US intelligence apparatus has been doing it for 60 years.No Winter For the Arctic in 2016 — NASA Marks Hottest January Ever RecordedWe’re witnessing the end for Winter as we know it. Greenhouse emission — now pushing CO2 levels to above 405 ppm — is rapidly forcing our world to warm most swiftly in one of the absolute worst places imaginable: the Arctic.Oldest known case of Neanderthal-human sex revealed by DNA testTests revealed that the female, whose remains were recovered from the Altai mountains on the Russia-Mongolia border, carried traces of DNA from Homo sapiens who mated with her ancestors 100,000 years ago.Solar homes facing meter bill shock, delays as premium tariffs endSome 150,000 households have been enjoying a 60c/kWh gross feed-in tariff for the last few years – that is 60c/kWh paid for entire output of their rooftop solar systems. However, that comes to an end on December 31,Greece Faces New Round of Strikes and ProtestsLawyers, dockworkers, and teachers are all set to engage in job actions.Why Is China Spending $43 Billion for a Farming Company?The biggest overseas purchase in Chinese history is meant to ensure the world’s largest country can keep feeding its people.Don’t throw away stuff you don’t need. Give it to someone who doesPilger explains why he believes “extremists” run the political system in the US and UKHe talks about why he supports Julian Assange, what whitleblowers mean to society today, and why he feels real change will never come from within mainstream political parties.Israel’s rash behavior blew operation to sabotage Iran’s computers“We spent millions on this operation to sabotage all of the computers of the Iranian infrastructure in the instance of a war. We penetrated the government, electricity lines, power stations and most of the infrastructure in Iran.” -
A quick thanks! doug cameron LABOR
A quick thanks!
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to meNeville, It’s clear that you’re as angry as I am about Medicare privatisation — over 1500 of you made calls to the new minister in just 24 hours. I asked you to help and you delivered. That’s roughly 62 calls an hour to incoming minister Alan Tu… |The latest politics update from the Australian Labor Party | Unsubscribe 
Neville, It’s clear that you’re as angry as I am about Medicare privatisation — over 1500 of you made calls to the new minister in just 24 hours.
I asked you to help and you delivered.
That’s roughly 62 calls an hour to incoming minister Alan Tudge, all saying that Australians don’t want Medicare privatised.
Together we spoke up and said that we don’t want our universal health care payments system run by a private multinational corporation with no guarantees that our data would be kept onshore.
It’s an absolutely amazing effort, Neville. You took a stand for our Medicare and I want to say thank you.
I know that this minister will be in no doubt about our willingness to defend our universal health care system — and that really is thanks to you.
This fight isn’t over yet, but this week, you’ve helped us take a strong stand.
Thanks again for your support,
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Nuclear experts are scared. Belgium just restarted two ancient nuclear power plants, that threaten to spark another Chernobyl disaster right in the heart of Europe! 900,000 European Avaazers just won a campaign for inspections. But if the world joins in with the largest call ever for energy safety, we can get the UN to help shut the sites down until proven safe. Sign and share on Facebook, Twitter, email… everywhere, before it’s too late:
Sign now Dear Avaazers,
Nuclear experts are scared. Belgium just restarted two ancient power plants, despite the discovery of 16,000 cracks last year in two of the reactors, and a recent explosion at another. They threaten to spark another Chernobyl disaster right in the heart of Europe!
Last week, nearly 900,000 European Avaazers won a campaign demanding international inspections, and got this dangerous story all over the media. If Avaazers around the world join in now, we could get a UN environmental impact body to help shut down the sites for good until they’re proven safe.
Belgium’s government is under intense pressure. If we build the largest global call ever for energy safety, we can shut these sites down and set a precedent in Europe that could help close dozens of hazardous nuclear plants across the world. Let’s urgently get 2 million of us behind this push — sign and share on Facebook, Twitter, email… everywhere before it is too late:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/belgian_nuclear_shutdown_gl_loc/?bhPqncb&v=72855&cl=9507331179
We are entering a new era of nuclear risk. The 25 oldest nuclear reactors in Europe are close to or past their 35 years of operation. But this is not just a European problem — nuclear sites in the US, Japan, India, and Russia are facing similar challenges. And an accident anywhere could threaten people everywhere.
As our nuclear plants get older, the number of failures and accidents keeps growing: elevated amounts of radiation in groundwater was detected near a plant just 25 miles away from New York City, and there was a reported 50% increase in unexpected failures globally between 2000 and 2006.
Belgium is becoming a symbol of the worldwide dangers posed by ageing nuclear plants: in 2014, it set the record for unexpected problems at its nuclear reactors: leaks, cracks and even an explosion last December. Experts say that because some of the cracks are on “one of the most vulnerable parts” of the plant, “if the reactor pressure fails, then we have a Chernobyl or a Fukushima-type accident”.
But we have a powerful chance to deactivate this nuclear time bomb in Europe: a UN Convention to prevent environmental damage obliges countries undertaking major projects that might have adverse impact across borders to notify and consult all affected governments and stakeholders. With mounting pressure from Germany and other neighbouring countries and massive public opposition, a call from the UN now could put enough pressure on Belgium, forcing it to shut down the plants.
An accident in Belgium could spread radiation way beyond Belgium’s borders and be truly catastrophic. Europeans and people elsewhere should not have to live on the brink of nuclear disaster. Click to join now and tell everyone:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/belgian_nuclear_shutdown_gl_loc/?bhPqncb&v=72855&cl=9507331179
Avaaz campaigned for the world to agree to an ambitious deal at the Paris climate talks to save our planet from the devastating effects of fossil fuels. Now let’s make sure we don’t put our planet at risk gambling with these disastrous, creaking nuclear plants.
With hope and determination,
Luca, Luis, Alaphia, Ana, Marigona, Emma, Alice, Spyro and the rest of the Avaaz Team
