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- Bushfire blame misses the point
Sadly the Commission played the blame game. This happens after every major fire and originates in the need to find scapegoats. Neither Christine Nixon nor the others who copped the blame could have known they were dealing with a whole new era of firestorm.
Issue 15 : Published 04-Aug-2010
- How to survive the next five billion years
Every year we mine about a billion tonnes of iron ore. If we keep this
up for five billion years, we will have dug up the whole earth to a
depth of about 10 km. Here is a guide to how human existence might continue until the sun dies.
Issue 0 : Published 09-Jul-2010
- Organic carrots and grocery store ethics
People in my own city are hungry, people across the world are
starving, yet here I am buying local organic olive oil, ten times the
price of a
good oil from Crete. The first time I tasted an organic carrot, I realised that every other carrot I had ever eaten was a mere shadow.
Issue 11 : Published 09-Jun-2010
- Bushfire commission's climate denial
The Black Saturday Royal Commission seems to be ignoring scientific evidence that climate
change was a major causal factor. The possibility that Victoria's cool mountain ridges
and valleys are drying out and that such ferocious fires are the way of the future might be a truth
too much to bear.
Issue 10 : Published 28-May-2010
- Shame under Howard and Rudd
The Howard years made me feel ashamed to be Australian, and I felt about his electoral defeat the way East Germans felt about the Berlin Wall coming down: as a kind of cleansing. Rudd disappoints for a different reason.
Issue 0 : Published 27-May-2010
- Climate action after Rudd
Rudd is technically correct that the opposition parties stymied his CPRS bills, but the buck stops with his disappointing climate policy leadership. Upon the failure of Australian parliamentary politics, we need now to find the courage to support mass non-violent
public action modelled on Vietnam War protest.
Issue 8 : Published 04-May-2010
- Vote One Zero Zero against climate inaction
In Australia's next federal election, I'll vote One, Zero, Zero — Greens 1, Labor 0, Coalition 0. This is the only way I can fulfil my voter duty, while recording protest at the failure of our major parties to offer real policies on the planet's climate crisis.
Issue 5 : Published 19-Mar-2010
- Australian farmers sold short by cheap food
Throughout his 2007 election campaign Rudd pledged to address 'inflated grocery prices'. But Australians are spending less at the supermarket than ever before. Cheap food has come at a cost to
the livelihoods of Australian farmers and the environment.
Issue 4 : Published 09-Mar-2010
- Vegetarian's war on duck terror
While most states have banned recreational duck shooting, in Victoria it not only continues, but in 2010 will increase. The recreational hunting industry comes down to nothing more than the desire of a small number of mainly men who get a thrill from the kill.
Issue 2 : Published 10-Feb-2010
- Smart taxing solutions to global warming
Between Rudd's ETS and Abbott's 'climate con job', Australians concerned about climate change have little to cheer about. A growing acceptance of the failings of our market based economy has put
wind in the sails of an idea becalmed for a decade.
Issue 2 : Published 08-Feb-2010
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