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.

Crikey Says: Crikey Says

Was this the week that the Rudd Government “jumped the shark”?

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.