Tuesday: Parliament House lawns

Climate Change Action – Come along to Parliament House Lawns THIS Tuesday 16th!!
Come along to Parliament House Lawns Tuesday 16th December at 12:30pm for a Climate Change Action. Parents and children especially required, bring banners/placards reading “No Surrender on Climate Change”.
The Federal Government is released its White Paper on Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Yesterday: Rudd steers safe cours eon carbon reduction
The Greens, are organising this action and calling for a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions on 1990 levels by 2020. Tell your friends and spread the word

New Matilda:
At a high school swimming carnival I once dived really badly off the blocks and, in mid-air, realised that I’d screwed it up; that I’d blown the one chance I had to get a head-start in the pool. I have that same feeling right now. The Rudd Government has just blown Australia’s chance — the small window of opportunity we had — to avert catastrophic climate change.
I suppose I knew this was coming — we’d all seen the leaks in the media — but when we found out last night that Kevin Rudd would be making the announcement instead of Penny Wong, I had a last-minute flutter of hope. Maybe he’s changed his mind, I thought. Maybe his kids had implored, “Dad, what are you doing?” But now, I just feel exhausted. I put so much of my life into this process — submissions, consultations, campaigning, media and trying to explain what it meant to thousands of young people. And now I feel so sad, like Kevin Rudd has just betrayed our entire generation. So many people — especially young people — voted for him because of his election promise to take strong action on climate change. He was elected with a mandate to take courageous and bold action to cut Australia’s emissions and play an international role of leadership. Today he has rejected that mandate; thrown it back in our faces. Rudd has betrayed a generation

Dear Editor

What a joke!!! I believe the Australian population elected Mr Rudd and the Labor party on a mistaken belief that they might do something meaningful about climate change. The response from the Labor party/Mr Rudd is extremely pathetic. Scientists have agreed that something meaningful and dramatic has to be done to prevent a global catastrophe and our current Australian government is unwilling to sacrifice anything to save our planet.

We should not have to put up with this inaction.

And
Dear Editor
Thanks Mr Rudd for doing virtually nothing to save our precious earth from Global Warming.

Marrette Corby
West Moonah