Nine learns the hard — and costly — way about putting your faith in technology. Plus, the other way of measuring kids’ progress at school and a show to get the Greens excited.
Australian Greens
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: the problem with putting your faith in technology
Quiggin: The Greens’ carbon tax may be worth a shot
The government should seriously consider The Greens’ proposed $20b carbon tax, says John Quiggin. If nothing else, they’re much more likely to cut a deal than the rusted-on sceptics in the Coalition.
I’d rather be in the Greens’ reality than Mungo MacCallum’s
The Greens’ Tim Hollo hits back against Mungo MacCallum’s claims that the party has been absent from the recent climate change debate.
Are the Greens just greedy capitalists, too?
The leader of the Greens in the ACT Legislative Assembly, Meredith Hunter, wants a salary increase of $50,000 to “cover new Assembly workload”. Isn’t it a little hypocritical after all the party’s noise about executive salaries and corporate greed? asks Samuel J.
Antony Green: The date of the 2010 Federal election is…
Balancing footy grand finals and the possibility of a double dissolution election, it looks like the Tony and Kev battle will occur between early August and mid September, speculates Antony Green.
Bartlett: Tipping point for a whale of a war
The news of a Japanese whaling ship ramming and sinking an anti-whaling Sea Shepherds boat highlights the long, bitter history between Japan and Australia over whaling. Is this boiling point? asks Andrew Bartlett.
Rudd — go green or go home
With the Coalition now unlikely to cut a deal with the Government on an ETS, Kevin Rudd’s best hope may be to commit to a much more serious emissions target of 25% to gain the support of the Greens.
A recycling Tony Abbott shows his green credentials
Tony Abbott has been channelling Prince Philip and some of Australia’s most successful Opposition leaders in an effort to bran himself as a champion of the environment.
Your timing’s off, Costello: an odd time for Liberal triumphalism
It’s fine to celebrate one’s victories, but the Liberals (and Peter Costello) are in danger of misunderstanding, and therefore systematically underestimating, the threat from the Greens.
Costello: How the Greens — and their preachy superior activism — fluffed Higgins
The media thought the Greens had the Higgins stitched up: no Labor candidate, lots of climate change talk, Libs leadership spill. Too bad the zealous morally superior Greens underestimated the intelligence of the electorate, says departed Higgins MP Peter Costello.
Hamilton: Lessons learnt from running in Higgins
The Greens’ candidate in the weekend’s Higgins by-election, Clive Hamilton, reflects on the successes and failures of his climate change-focussed campaign.
As climate changes, Greens are the new black
The Greens may be the beneficiaries of the ALP and Liberals’ CPRS squabbling, with last week’s polls all showing a big boost to the party.
Antony Green: How Bradfield and Higgins will play out
With two key by-elections tomorrow, Antony Green dissects how the Greens will fare against the incumbent Liberals, with no Labor candidates standing. If they go to preferences, can Clive Hamilton snatch Higgins for the Greens?
Why the Greens should vote for the CPRS
Labor’s CPRS may be a dog’s breakfast, but it’s the only proposal on the table at the moment, and thus Australia’s only way to tell the world we’re serious about climate change before Copenhagen, says Derek Barry.
You can’t moralise on climate change unless you’re a monk
Hamilton and the rest of the Australian Greens are political opportunists of the first order, but pretend to be above all that by cloaking themselves in the Colors of Giaa, writes Simon Mansfield.
Sinodinos: The environment is too important to be left to The Greens
The environment is no longer a niche issue that should remain solely in the hands of socialist Greens, says Arthur Sinodinos. Major parties can advocate for the environment without giving up on capitalism.
Greens get the climate poll they paid for
The Greens recently commissioned a Galaxy poll on public opinion to the Government’s ETS and, surprise surprise says Andrew Norton: it found Australians want a more ambitious emissions target.
Times changing rapidly in the Middle East
In the context of a stagnated “peace process” and ongoing colonial expansion that makes a two-state solution practically impossible, the Greens are re-assessing their current policy on the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Bartlett: Why I’m running as a Greens candidate
Former Australian Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett is standing as a Greens candidate in the seat of Brisbane at the next federal election. Why is he diving back into politics? Well, climate change and affordable housing, for a start.
Antony Green: Can the Greens make a dent in Higgins?
On paper, the Federal seat of Higgins might not look as safe for the Liberals as it once did — but don’t expect to see Clive Hamilton make much of an impact there for the Greens, says Antony Green. History and the polls are against him.
How to become a federal MP: the minor parties
Just what does it take to ascend to the lofty heights of federal parliament in a minor party? It seems that compared to the factionally obsessed Libs and Labor, the preselection process is a reasonably democratic one.
Hamilton: Why I am standing for the Greens in Higgins
Crikey regular Clive Hamilton explains why he is running in the Higgins by-election as a candidate for the Greens, and says that climate change won’t be the only issue he’ll be campaigning on.
Rundle: Why Clive H might be just the ticket in Higgins
Higgins is the one of the foremost ‘social liberal’ (or doctors’ wives) seat in the country. Clive Hamilton’s success as the Greens’ candidate in the seat will be a litmus test of test of exactly how seriously they take climate change, says Guy Rundle.
