By Susie Russell September 1, 2013 The image of Nero fiddling while Rome burned comes to mind. Seven days out from the Federal election and so little discussion of what is at stake. The environment looks like being burned at the stake as part of Tony Abbott’s witch-hunt. ‘The greatest moral issue of our time’, […]
Green turns brown, grey and fluoro in Election13
September 1, 2013
Filed Under: #auspol, Climate Change, election2013, Federal Election, Front Page, Ideology, Liberal Party Tagged With: Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Coal seam gas, environment, Genetically engineered crops, Great Barrier Reef, green army, marine sanctuary, Susie Russell, uranium
Greens gear up for their “best chance ever” in Batman, with Alex Bhathal taking on Labor’s David Feeney
August 17, 2013
by Bumpy Favell August 17, 2013 I met Batman’s Greens candidate, Alex Bhathal in a café in Brunswick St, Fitzroy – a couple of doors down from her work, during her lunch hour. Bhathal is an imposing figure, at least 1.8m – and gracious, considering I forgot to press record for the first 5 minutes […]
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