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25.01.2022 Cutting jobseeker payments is stupid and cruel. What happens when you take billions of dollars out of the hands of people who have no job? Poverty.... What happens when you take billions of dollars out of the hands of customers? Bankruptcies and job losses. What happens when you have poverty, bankruptcies and job losses? Suffering. Solution: The Government must... Maintain JobSeeker and JobKeeper payments at their current levels. Invest in publicly owned renewable energy, restoring the environment, public health education and housing, and in doing so create the millions of jobs needed, cashed up customers for businesses and the resilience in our communities to cope with an uncertain future. That is what a recovery plan looks like. If they won't do it, vote for a party that will. The Australian Greens . greens.org.au/recovery

24.01.2022 "If you fail to remember the past you are condemned to repeat it. In the UK in the 1860s the horse carriage industry and new railways were threatened by the self-propelled motor vehicle. So the government swung into action on behalf of its supporters, sabotaging the new industry by requiring every motor vehicle to be preceded by a man waving a red flag. All it achieved was to deny the community the benefits of the new technology and transfer the innovative advantage to other countries. When I see prime minister Scott Morrison announcing his intention to change the mandate of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency... all I see is a red flag-waving saboteur in front of a sign that says LNP open for donations." Well said Christine Milne.

24.01.2022 Many of you will know BioR and have even come out planting with them, but you may not know David Paton AM, ornithologist, restoration ecologist and Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide who is one of their directors and founders. Take 40 min and have a listen to David talk about the environmental decline he has observed since he was a child and researched for over four decades, what the problems are and what we need to do protect our wildlife from extinction. (Hint:Plant lots of structurally diverse habitat)

21.01.2022 The fight for the planet is over money and how a small group of people want lots more of it than they can possibly spend and don't care who or what they destroy in the process.

20.01.2022 Today the government tipped 1.8 million unemployed people and their families into poverty while pushing ahead with tax breaks for the wealthy in next week's budget. "Let them eat cake", I hear from Kirribilli.

20.01.2022 While the Labor Vic government tries to help people abandoned by the Federal government, we see ideological criticism by the Liberal party who can't stand to see money being wasted on the poor. The Liberal party think if businesses are doing it tough, the best thing to do is keep wages low and forget that every employee is a customer and every employees family are customers. The reality is that if businesses are doing it tough, people are doing it tougher. You fix the the economy by helping people, not by 'fixing' the economy to benefit business.

20.01.2022 Morrison obviously is learning nothing from Europe and has worried about the money more than people's lives for the whole pandemic.

20.01.2022 For the first time in 175 years the eminent scientific journal, Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate and put their backing behind Democrat nominee Joe Biden. The editorial starts, "The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its peoplebecause he rejects evidence and science." and finishes;... "It's time to move Trump out and elect Biden, who has a record of following the data and being guided by science." A huge step from one of the leading scientific publications in the world realising the gravity of the situation and breaking 175 years of neutrality to save the planet.

19.01.2022 Bee nice to your local bees.

18.01.2022 Let's remember with everything that's going on we still need to deal with the big picture. The Greens are the only party with a realistic climate policy that will create jobs and a clean future. Even the Dalai Lama is urging the world to go Green.

17.01.2022 This is going to rip BILLIONS of dollars out of our economy. Cutting Jobseeker is not just bad for the unemployed and their familes, it is bad for businesses, bad for workers & bad for jobs as well.

15.01.2022 Biodiversity loss is a bigger threat than the climate crisis. Climate change will make it worse. This week our government has refused to sign a UN pledge to restore the environment, refused to set emissions targets to address the climate crisis and cut corona support pushing millions back into poverty. Morrison leads a cruel, greedy, anti-science, self serving, callus hearted government that have more in common with the authoritarian leadership's of Russia, Brazil, China and ...the US, none of whom signed the pledge either, than in democracy and the responsibilities of governance. Vote for change. Vote for a future for all of us. Vote Greens. greens.org.au/recovery

13.01.2022 The cuts proposed to Jokeeper and Jobseeker are cruel and economically stupid. When put alongside the proposed tax cuts to the wealthy, it is more proof of the Liberal parties economic incompetence and self serving governance. Maintaining the payments at their current level will not only keep families healthy and sane but also provide the much needed stimulus our small businesses need, where it's needed, much more so than a $10k tax bonus for Scomo and his cronies.

13.01.2022 Australia has refused to join this pledge to take action on biodiversity loss because it is against their policy of money is more important than extinctions. The reality and stupidity is that it's our extinction that is ultimately being discussed.

12.01.2022 The coal industry is on the way out and the false hope peddled to coal communities by Liberal and Labor is wrong. Imagine if, instead of competing to be coal and gas' biggest champion we were building a plan to look after workers and resources communities as we transition Australia to a carbon-free economy. Transitioning to zero emissions by 2030 will create 180,000 new jobs across the country. Find out more about The Australian Greens plan to Renew Australia's economy and su...pport the most affected communities as we move to a Green future. https://greens.org.au/platform/renewables See more

12.01.2022 Put simply, the government can track a path back to economic growth that is fair, that enhances the social capital that has buttressed our nation through the toughest year many of us have experienced, or it can plot a path to recovery that benefits the few at the expense of the many. https://www.theguardian.com//will-ideology-assert-itself-i

11.01.2022 Hey folks. The debate over a Nuclear Waste Dump being established at Kimba in SA is still bubbling away. Vote yes in this Stock Journal Poll today to say that ALL South Australians deserve a say on this issue. https://www.stockjournal.com.au//kimba-waste-site-consult/

07.01.2022 Golden Gate Bridge this week reminiscent of our own Sydney Harbour Bridge last summer. Climate change is here, we don't have any more time to waste. Liberal and Labor are part of the problem. Only the Greens have a plan that backs the science and will do what's needed to transition our economy to a clean future while looking after those who will be affected most. https://greens.org.au/recovery

06.01.2022 Today's is #WorldAnimalDay. Help protect and restore our environment for our feathered, furred, scaled and other animal friends.

06.01.2022 As unemployed people have been saying for decades, the mutual obligation system is pointless, punitive and counterproductive. It’s a waste of time and money. It does nothing to help people find work. It’s just a complicated, expensive way of penalising people for being poor.

04.01.2022 The superannuation debate underlines the problem with the current government and their philosophy. The Liberal philosophy is, it's all about me, fuck the rest of you. They call it self responsibility, but the reality is its an excuse to abandon social responsibility and remove accountability for their own profiteering. Not good traits in the party of government. Almost everyday I am stunned by their greed and selfishness, their lack of empathy and their refusal to accept resp...onsibility for their harmful actions. Outside of Parliament they would probably be thrown in jail. Instead they lie and deny and continue. We need a Federal ICAC. We need accountability. We need transparency. We need a Greens government fast, we are running out of time.

01.01.2022 This year instead of guarding their plants to protect them from being grazed by kangaroos, BioR built a roo proof fence around the property. Now, not only have the majority of plantings survived and thrived, there has been an added bonus that all the other plants within the 70ha property have bounced back from being severely grazed shrubs and grasses to a much healthier ecosystem full of life and green growth. Awesome and innovative problem solving BioR.

01.01.2022 Gas is just another fossil fuel that we must stop burning. Morrison's plan to invest in gas is a disaster that will push up global temperatures and our power prices. The future of our energy supply must be based on clean, cheap renewable energy and storage not dirty, expensive climate destroying fossil fuels. Read the Greens plan for a transition to a renewable energy powered economy here.... https://greens.org.au/platform/renewables See more

01.01.2022 Every new stimulus plan from this government is worse than the last. Burn more gas, give high incomes a tax break, and now repealing laws put in place following the Banking Royal Commission to protect consumers from dodgy lending practices. Thinking that putting consumers into more debt to stimulate the economy is stupidity. Australia already has the highest personal debt levels in the world, over 200% of GDP! It can only end in shattered lives.... Instead of trickle down evonomics (more like pissing on economics) to create the stimulus wanted, the government needs to spend big on infrastructure for the future in clean energy, education, health and the environment, creating jobs, customers for business and a better world.