Christine Milne has reiterated her commitment to moving the economic focus to households and quality of life in her budget reply.
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The Greens, business and the art of fiscal discipline
The Greens are apparently fiscally irresponsible and yet too disciplined, depending on which business group you ask.
Crikey Says: Milne’s Greens ascension is good news for Labor
Crikey readers have their say.
Political snippets: Labor’s false hopes about the Greens
So the ALP is hoping that the retirement of Bob Brown as parliamentary leader of the Greens will give them the chance to claw back votes from those nasty lefties.
Milne steals the Greens spotlight
Crikey media wrap: Greens figurehead Bob Brown may have resigned on Friday but the weekend’s media has been dominated by Christine Milne asserting herself as the new leader of the Greens.
Brown: our most successful third-party pollie
Bob Brown ends his long and successful parliamentary career with the Greens at the peak of their power. Christine Milne has been handed awesome responsibility.
The Greens turn a new leaf in Christine Milne
Christine Milne, having been the Greens chief spokesperson on climate change issues for some time, already carries a high profile and tends to come across as a lecturing mother.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: our energy future
“The door is closing…I am very worried – if we don’t change direction now on how we use energy, we will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the minimum [for safety]. The door will be closed forever.”
Carbon tax passes but blood pledge remains
Crikey media wrap: It’s taken years of debates, discussion papers and fallen leaders, but yesterday the senate passed Australia’s first carbon legislation.
Crikey Says: The little carbon tax that could
Now that wasn’t that hard, was it?
Green day: the real architects behind the carbon tax bill
On a reliably frigid Canberra morning holed up in a ramshackle hotel bereft of any kind of heating, the sound of Anthony Albanese seeping out of the clock radio to claim total credit for the passage of the carbon tax seemed too much to bear.
Ghosts of climate policy past haunt our Clean Energy Future
It’s an old refrain, but the closer we get to the Clean Energy Future legislation ducking and weaving its way through parliament, the more we are reminded of the ghosts of the current proposal’s stepmother, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
Rundle: why the Right has become frantic about the Greens
Though many rural people still find it culturally and psychologically impossible to get close to the Greens as a party, they are increasingly happy to have them float the measures they would like to see occur
Climate change policy set to steam up Canberra
One of the biggest questions for arising out of the ALP’s day of deliverance by the two country independents is this: what does it mean for climate change and clean energy policies?
Mungo MacCallum: Greens and climate change … welcome back to the real world
So with a great (self-trumpeted) fanfare, the Greens have returned to the climate change debate — and about bloody time.
Milne: It all boils down to this: Kyoto v non Kyoto
Although inching progress is being made, the UN and world leaders will have trouble selling a political outcome that declares some kind of success, writes Greens Senator Christine Milne.
The real CPRS choice: do what it takes or lock in failure
The real choice is whether we do what it takes to stop the climate crisis or whether we lock in failure by sandbagging the old polluting economy, writes Greens Senator Christine Milne.
Why Rudd should listen to a Greens Senator
Greens Senator Christine Milne’s recent Press Club speech was a bracing bucket of iced water over the nonsense peddled by climate-change denialists. If only Rudd would listen, writes Tony Kevin.
Milne: Nobody wants a Ferrari ETS, Minister
Minister Wong, nobody wants a Ferrari ETS! We don’t want something that is flash and fancy but gas guzzling, expensive and out of reach, writes Christine Milne.
Milne: Still time for PM Rudd to lead
It’s not too late for Rudd and Wong still have a chance to lead from the front, writes Greens senator Christine Milne.
Ears are burning: Garrett to get black job?
Peter Garrett has plenty to offer in the portfolio of Indigenous Affairs. He may be relatively inexperienced in the parliamentary bearpit, and lack a factional power base, but he makes the visceral connection with Indigenous Australia in a way that very few other denizens of the house on the hill can manage. Garrett gets it, writes Graham Ring.
Turnbull and the pulp mill: destinies entwined?
The Federal Court has given Malcolm Turnbull the final say on the future of Gunns controversial pulp mill project. And it’s a decision with potential wide-ranging ramifications.
