Economy
Christine Milne, press conference, 18-10-2011
Greencast | Spokesperson Christine Milne
Tuesday 18th October 2011, 3:33pm
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Deputy Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne spoke to journalists in Canberra today about Tony Abbott's increasingly desperate attack on investment and investor certainty, which is threatening the renewable energy industry, generation infrastructure, jobs and the price paid by everyday Australians for energy needs.
Other topics covered included the Commonwealth Ombudsman and next week's CHOGM.
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Today Melbourne delivered
Blog Post | Blog of Adam Bandt MP
Wednesday 12th October 2011, 10:23am
by DamienLawson in
Today I voted to pass the comprehensive Clean Energy plan through the House of Representatives – and together we have delivered on our commitment for climate action.
This legislation will help build a strong clean economy, drive investment in renewable energy and create thousands of new jobs.
Without the voters of Melbourne, we know that action on climate change would have been off the national agenda for years.
The bigger picture
Blog Post | Blog of Bob Brown
Tuesday 11th October 2011, 4:42pm
by MarionRae in
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown made the following remarks during the Environmental and Social Taxes session of the Tax Forum, on 4 October 2011:
"The carbon pricing effort now is to reduce costs down the line, as Nicholas Stern has pointed out, 1 per cent diversion of GDP now to deal with carbon price is going to save our grandchildren five to 20 per cent diversion of their GDP to deal with the onrush of destruction of climate change, including the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, which is a six billion dollar annual business, in the lifetimes of some people in this room on current projections.
"That said, the issue of transport, we come to a huge fossil fuel rebate system which should be removed. This on various estimates is in the area of five to ten billion dollars per annum. Yet a fossil fuel rebate system which has perverse outcomes, it may lead through the deaths of cancer of 300 people in our bigger cities per annum and that's not factored in and it should be.