Submitted by rickeyre on
Press release just in from Peter Garrett's office, starting with the funniest opening sentence since "Call me Ishmael":
"Highlighting the Australian Government’s commitment to world best practice environmental standards, a uranium mine in South Australia has been approved subject to strict approval conditions which will ensure no credible risk to the environment."
Submitted by rickeyre on
While everyone else does their weekly campaign summaries on a Friday, I get around to it whenever... in this case the following Wednesday.
(i) "Coalition gains one point on Labor!" Well golly gee. Four words: Statistical. Margin. Of. Error.
Submitted by rickeyre on
What do our pollies in Australia care for microcredit? On September 4 Peter Garrett initiated a debate in the House of Reps urging the government to support the Microcredit Summit goals. As usual, six MPs got five minutes each to speak to the motion, and then the debate was adjourned indefinitely. (Refer my item of September 17 re Darfur.)
