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21: Katie Milne To Apply For Injunction In The Land And Environment Court

Katie Milne Tweed Greens Councillor's application for an injunction to stop the Repco rally in the federal Court on Thursday was rejected.

However this brave and fearless woman is not to be deterred. She is applying for an injunction in the Land...
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Posted: 29Aug2009 02:24   Similar items

22: Day Six Of Steve Posselt's Journey Up The Goulburn River

Report by Giovanni Ebono

Steve left behind the politicians talking to their rural constituents and headed up the river, leaving us to pick up some documentary footage of the Shepparton fruit cannery and do an interview with his old mate, Allen Gale.
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Posted: 8Aug2009 02:28   Similar items

23: Steve Posselt: Journey Up The Goulburn River

Steve Posselt has started his journey up the Goulburn River to highlight the madness of the Victorian Government's plans to pipe water from the Goulburn River to Melbourne. The figures given are 80 gigalitres per year, roughly half the river's annual flow. Read more:
Posted: 2Aug2009 08:01   Similar items

24: Sylvia Hale And Deborah Lilly Discuss The NSW Planning Crisis

Sylvia Hale, Greens MLC, visited Mullumbimby this week as part of a regional tour which included Lismore and Hastings Point.

Sylvia hale explained the infamous part 3A of the NSW planning Act. How it works for developers and is not good for the commu...
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Posted: 16Jul2009 10:46   Similar items

25: John Kaye And The Green Alternative, Mullumbimby 13 June 2009

On Saturday 13th June 2009, Byron Ballina Greens presented a conference in Mullumbimby entitled "A Green Alternative". Speakers were John kaye Greens MP, Giovanni Ebono, and Tom Tabart Byron Shire Councillor.

John described a green economy as one where...
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Posted: 14Jun2009 18:02   Similar items

26: Steve Posselt Booklaunch At Ballina

Steve Posselt an Alstonville based civil engineer launched his book "Cry me a River" at Ballina this week.

The book is based on Steve's 3000 kilometer journey down the Murray-Darling river system from Brisbane to Adelaide, in a wheeled kyak. Steve wa...
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Posted: 10May2009 12:02   Similar items

27: Cross Border Rail Report Biased In Government's Favour

Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has rejected the recommendations of the Cross Border Transport Task Force stating that the decision to rule out rail links between Southeast Queensland and northern NSW is a biased decision that only benefits the bus ind...
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Posted: 30Apr2009 00:17   Similar items

28: Murwillumbah Says "We

Is the long-idle north coast rail line a vital and shovel-ready project that can immediately get going and bring jobs, transport and tourism back to the north coast? Members of Trains on our Tracks (TOOT), The Greens and the National Party met recently at Murwillumbah R...
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Posted: 25Mar2009 03:32   Similar items

29: Governments Internet Cencorship Plan Is Facing Defeat In The Senate

The Federal Government's plan to filter (censor) the internet is running into increasing difficulties in Canberra. Senator Nick Xenophon has said that he will not support the Government's filtering proposal and is not even sure that the proposed trial shoul...
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Posted: 28Feb2009 23:20   Similar items

30: Media And Politicians Ignore Climate Change Menace

The climate that feeds you, needs you I was one of a dozen North Coast residents who attended a climate summit in Canberra last weekend. From across the country, 1,500 people came to protest about the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The parliamentarians cam...
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Posted: 10Feb2009 02:14   Similar items