Voluntary assisted dying program on SBS
Watch out for the SBS Insight program with host Jenny Brockie which is looking at how voluntary assisted dying is working in Australia. 8.30pm – 9.35pm, Tuesday 3rd March 2020, and …
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Asleep at the wheel
The Government announced over a year ago that it would develop a National Strategy for Electric Vehicles, but it won’t be done before June 2020 and it’s unlikely to add …
Mardi Gras – we were there from the start!
Did you know? The Australian Democrats were the first party in Australia to have a written policy requiring the decriminalisation of homosexual activity. Sounds odd now but former Democrats Senator …
Call to action on Timor prosecutions
Witness K and his lawyer Bernard Collaery are accused by Government prosecutors of being a threat to national security. Why? Because they blew the whistle on Australia’s shameful behaviour in …
$2m for more phantom water
The Coalition appears to have struck another costly water deal to save the Ramsar-listed Narran Lakes wetlands, this time for ~$2 million. See here for the Guardian story). Three years …
Targets must come forward
Will Steffen, climate researcher at the ANU, says Labor’s targets of 45% reduction by 2030 and zero emissions by 2050 won’t contain global heating to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. …
Ice tells the tale on gas
While the PM and his Resources Minister tout the benefits of using gas as a ‘transition fuel’, CSIRO research says fugitive methane from extraction puts gas on a par with …
Brexit & Australia
Australia should be looking to develop and strengthen trade with the UK now that ‘Brexit’ is really happening. Our government should be encouraging businesses to establish or strengthen their links, realising …
PM’s sympathy meaningless without action to stop murders
Men murder, on average one woman a week. This man killed his own 3 children too. This atrocity was committed in a peaceful Brisbane suburb this week, when a woman …
We sign on to Safe Climate Declaration
The Democrats today signed on to the Safe Climate Declaration and joined the call for Australia’s climate emergency transition. The National Climate Energy Summit, held in Melbourne on 14-15 February, …