November 22, 2010
Australia faces two choices as to how we can clean up our environment and play our part in reducing global emissions. The real debate in Australia is not about action versus inaction. It is about whether electricity prices or ''direct action'' is the...
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October 25, 2010
by Greg Hunt Published on The Punch 25 Oct 2010 Twelve months ago today I released a video blog warning of the dangers of the Home Insulation Program. Back then, Peter Garrett’s office had been denying a link between his program and house fires. ...
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September 27, 2010
OPINION PIECE IN THE AUSTRALIAN ONE of the ironies of the election is that if the Coalition had formed government, we would be negotiating with the owners of Hazelwood and Yallourn power stations about converting either or both from brown coal to...
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August 10, 2010
THE GILLARD-RUDD Government has tried desperately to claim that they saved Australia from going into recession through their stimulus package. But this is the same stimulus package that featured the wasteful, disastrous and deadly Home Insulation Program. This was a program cobbled together in the most incompetent of rush by the Gang-of-Four, led ...
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June 17, 2010
THE great vision for Newcastle would be to help keep the local mines running by reducing their methane, rather than the government's plan to close them down. And there must be a plan to help bury the massive overhead transmission lines and to rep...
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April 9, 2010
Productivity, not population, is the key to quality of life. THE key to quality of life for Australian families and communities during the coming four decades is not a population of 36 million, as Kevin Rudd advocates, but carefully managed sustainable growth. A random declaration of bigness is no substitute for a planned vision of a sustainable...
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December 31, 2009
WISDOM can come at the most unexpected times. While strapping my knee this week after another running injury the local physiotherapist reflected on Copenhagen and made the simple observation that the only way to make progress on global climate action...
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October 15, 2009
We’ve all heard of Eumundi State School. It’s famously where the Prime Minister told us before the last election that he was a country boy. And what he was really telling us was that he would stand up for the country. He would stand up for ordinary Australians. He would stand up for people who lived in areas that they believed in and loved. Yet...
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September 7, 2009
It’s like an episode from The Emperor’s New Clothes. Why is it that Peter Garrett is about the only person who doesn’t see the need for a full investigation into the waste and rorting in the multi-billion pink batts program? MP’s offices and media o...
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August 13, 2009
Australians are inspired by the great mirror fields of solar energy in California and Nevada. That vision is possible in Australia. But it is a vision now at risk. Labor's hot air means renewables such as wind farming are even further off being realised. For over a year now, the government has delayed renewable energy legislation which woul...
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March 27, 2009
Published in the quarterly Network magazine Group Training Australia 'The largest employer network of apprentices and trainees' It used to be a choice between the environment and the economy. The smart money these days is on how new environmental challenges can actually help to deliver new industries and new jobs. Where is the focus ...
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February 11, 2009
Blog posted on Open Forum Ten years ago, few people imagined an economy where many people made a living buying and selling goods online. An economy where businesses may never actually see their customers or the goods they are selling. Businesses where a computer and a credit card are king. In the next ten years, we will see a new world wher...
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February 1, 2009
There are solutions to climate change, as clever Australians are showing, writes Greg Hunt. THE great mirror fields of California and Nevada are a vision of the future. No other form of new energy captures the imagination, inspires and allows us to understand the coming transition to a clean economy as easily as vast solar arrays in the desert. ...
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January 8, 2009
If it weren't for the dykes, Holland would flood with seawater. But in a country once called "New Holland" plans are being drawn up to pull down the barriers that keep the sea from inundating the Murray Lower Lakes. Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett will decide whether to approve a plan to bust open the barrages that hold back the sea. T...
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October 11, 2008
South Australia can lead the nation in a new water revolution. At a time when the Lower Lakes are under stress, at a time when our city water resources are under stress and at a time when our farmers are under stress, we need to fundamentally rethink the way in which we use water. Waiting for rain is not enough. A two-pronged water revolution w...
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