I’m off to APGN 2010 in Taiwan!
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Australian ‘freedom’
It doesn’t matter how luxury one’s accomodations are, if you aren’t free to leave and people aren’t free to come and visit you, it’s a prison. It’s illegal to lock up innocentRead More…
YES to culture and community, NO to intolerance and vilification
In response to today’s ABC news item and the comments regarding accomodation at Curtin Detention Centre, I write the commentary below. I expect the ‘hell hole’ my refugee advocate colleagues are alludingRead More…
Media and democratic rights violations in Rwanda
Follows is a media statement from Frank Habineza, Founding President, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda that outlines some serious threats to democracy in Rwanda. I call on our Australian Government to showRead More…
Outta the mouth of a babe in 1992
Below is an exerpt from a speech that Severn Suzuki (now Cullis-Suzuki) gave to the Plenary Session at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Severn was 12 years old.Read More…
Open letter to The Herd and to Kram
Dear The Herd & Kram, KRAM: I’ve been a fan of Spiderbait’s music since the 1990s and have enjoyed your personal spots on TV in recent years. However, I have to sayRead More…
Set the public record straight, Mr Burke
Dear Mr Tony Burke MP, As a public relations practitioner, the news regarding you using Gunns’ promotional material for your Ministerial statements in Parliament didn’t sit well with me at all. IRead More…
Legalise abortion in Queensland. It’s a matter of choice.
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Protecting the climate is a job for everyone
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Watch the video and take the pledge with Bernard Fanning and other treasured Sea Guardians.
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Miranda Devine lacks the concept of shared humanity
Time to heal, not hate – Brown Those pursuing destructive hate rather than constructive compassion in the wake of the Victorian bushfire tragedy should haul off, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.Read More…
Call to withhold recognition of a new Kenyan government
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Double value voting – Vote 1 Greens
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Save our senate
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Beautiful Africans at my doorstep
Dear Courier-Mail Editor, As a Moorooka resident, I must declare that Liberal Member Gary Hardgrave does not speak for me in saying that my suburb is “exhaustedâ€? by the “influxâ€? of AfricanRead More…
Gay and Gunns and Turnball and Lennon
The problem with being a public relations specialist, it makes me sick to the stomach to have to read through the absolute media spin developed by these four stakeholders in the GunnsRead More…
Standing down as Greens candidate for Moreton
It is with regret that I announce that I am standing down as the Greens Candidate for Moreton. Please know this decision does not come easily, but unusual recent events and undueRead More…
Family fun day at Kuraby
I went along to a Family Fun Day today at Kuraby organised by the Your Rights At Work team. It was a beautiful sunny day out and it seemed like everyone wasRead More…
Southside Peace Group at Rocklea Market
This morning I volunteered on a stall at Rocklea Markets, helping out the Southside Peace Group. The group is calling on the federal government to immediately remove Australian troops from Iraq andRead More…
Elissa’s fave YouTube links – updated regularly
Howard and Rudd in bed with the coal industry – Greens Ad Teenage affluenza is spreading fast Mattresses Polar Bears Green Day – Working Class Hero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPgeDhGzKY Joni Mitchell helps the GreensRead More…