Christine Milne
Christine Milne is the Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson on climate change
Information
Country:
Australia

Current office

Office:
Australian Senate
County:
Tasmania
Party:
Australian Greens
 
Christine Milne
By Tim Hollo Kevin Rudd's speech to the Lowy Institute last Friday was one of the most extraordinary pieces of rhetorical hypocrisy this country has seen in recent years...
Bert Norton
Bert Norton
Nothing will be done until the catastrophic consequences of inaction begin, and by then it will be far too late ...
Yesterday at 19:34
Christine Milne
With growing resignation among global leaders that the Copenhagen Conference will deliver no more than another non-binding 'political agreement', Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong and those who gave them cover for their weak targets must share some of the responsibility...
Christine Milne
Kevin Rudd has been singled out by a leading African climate negotiator as a leader failing to live up to his political promise as a meeting at global climate negotiations chaired by Australian negotiators ended with African nations walking out in protest...
Christine Milne
Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne, said: "Minister Wong created the problems with the renewable energy target, and she can and should fix them herself...
Christine Milne
Greens Senator Christine Milne is calling on the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association to explain why it talked with National Foods in Melbourne without any consultation with the Tasmanian Suppliers Collective Bargaining Group formed by struggling dairy farmers...
Liam Gash
Liam Gash
With effectively only two buyers of raw milk on the island, unless dairy farmers have an body to represent them, they will be screwed on price for ever. The TFGA is run by a handful of big midlands properties and is totally out of touch with the concerns of family farms.
03 November at 23:00
Christine Milne
Kevin Rudd's woefully weak emissions reduction targets are helping to undermine chances of an agreement at the Copenhagen climate conference, with the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations threatening to walk out of negotiations unless rich nations commit to 40% cuts below 1990 levels by 2020...
Justin Wood
Justin Wood
I earnestly hope they can stay the course, united, and not let themselves be picked off!
03 November at 21:28
Christine Milne
25-30% of Australian builders may not be able to build legally by the end of this year and be forced to either build illegally or go out of business because of the failure of Australian governments to deal with the 'junk' mandatory home builders' warranty insurance...
Christine Milne
The Senate Environment Committee will look into a comprehensive roll-out of safe and effective insulation for Australian homes and businesses after the Greens today amended and then supported a Coalition reference on the issue...
Christine Milne
It is becoming increasingly clear that, if they were to ever compete on a level playing field, renewable energy technologies would beat so-called 'clean coal' hands down, the Australian Greens said today...
Christine Milne
Senator MILNE (Tasmania) (4:04 PM) -I rise today to note the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts, Managing our coastal zone in a changing climate: the time to act is now...
David Marsden-Ballard
David Marsden-Ballard
we live in a schizophrenic world, where cold hard facts and delusional fantasies are allowed to co-exist, because not enough people have the nouse or the guts to say "hey, the Emperor's got no clothes on" and the punishment for doing so from those tailoring the invisible clothes aka 'the Vested Interests', is often very harsh !
27 October at 21:21
Christine Milne
Senator MILNE (Tasmania) (5:51 PM) -I rise today to also take note of the ministerial statement with regard to bushfire prevention and preparedness. I want to note that in 2001 COAG had before it a report called Natural disasters in Australia: reforming litigation relief and recovery arrangements...
David Marsden-Ballard
David Marsden-Ballard
At some stage politics has to move from compromising on reality to the pressures of vested interests and the money men, to actually take the recommendations of technical, expert or scientific committees and boards of inquiry and implement the necessary changes without fear or favour.

I think we are all getting very cynical and unimpressed with Inquiry after Inquiry on bushfires and other disasters, black deaths in custody, naval disasters, whistleblowing protection, etc... only for the very legitimate and well thought out submissions to be ignored because it does not suit.... Then as the issues are not resolved, for the whole problem to surface again. You get to the point of hearing about another inquiry of wondering what will get ignored or swept under the carpet this time.

The problem with the global ecological problems is it's all getting so critical, losing the Arctic sea ice, the Great Barrier Reef and the coral atoll nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans is a once off event, with no time for a re-run under 5-10million years.... Read more

The internet and Web 2.0 are making it so much easier for ordinary people to track the obsfucation and lies of our leaders. Previously - to see that Inquiry 27 is just covering up for the lack of action in Inquiry 2, you would have to have spent days, weeks and months going to the dusty archives of specialist libraries or departmental archives. Now you can do the "crap-detecting" in an afternoon.

A crucial part of solving this is to address the abysmal deficits in all levels of education of three things, systems thinking, scientific literacy and ecological literacy.
27 October at 21:52
Christine Milne
The contrast between the Rudd Government's efforts to do what polluting companies request and their utter disregard for the advice and requests of the renewable energy sector could not be starker, the Australian Greens said today...
Christine Milne
Hundreds of jobs, a flourishing climate friendly industry and the Rudd Government's climate credibility are all on the line if the Government does not urgently fix the Renewable Energy Target, the Australian Greens said today...
Justin Wood
Justin Wood
don't forget the truly moronic inclusion of coal seam methane...
26 October at 22:40
Harriett Swift
Harriett Swift
and native forest wood "waste."
26 October at 23:59
Christine Milne
On 24 October, people in 181 countries came together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history. At over 5200 events around the world, people gathered to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis...
Christine Milne
The Rudd Government's reintroduction of an unchanged Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme into parliament today will be celebrated by polluters and mourned by those who want urgent action on the climate crisis, the Australian Greens said today...