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An extract from Kerry Nettle's valedictory speech to the Senate on 25th June 2008.
"I would like to say thank you to the people of New South Wales for giving me what has been an incredible opportunity over the last six years to represent them here in this parliament. I have really enjoyed my time here. The thing that I have enjoyed the most is the opportunity to help individuals who have a particular passion for something and to assist them in getting their voice heard or assist them with the problem which they are trying to resolve. Some of those problems have been resolved and some of those are yet to be resolved. It has been an incredibly rewarding experience."
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Greens Planning spokesperson, Sylvia Hale MLC, warned that the Land and Environment Court's decision to reject a massive marina at Rose Bay could be the last of its kind if Planning Minister Frank Sartor's proposed changes to planning laws are passed by the Upper House.
Ms Hale congratulated Woollahra Council on its win. The court upheld a unanimous decision by the Council to refuse an application from Denis O'Neil's Addenbrooke to build a $6 million marina at Rose Bay.
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Alarm bells start sounding when young people leave school confused about the boundaries between faith and evidence. They get even louder when the penny drops on the massive state and federal funding that supports the growth of schools that systematically mislead their students. And they reach a crescendo when governments are caught accepting the distortion of education in faith-based private schools.
The growing phenomenon of faith-based institutions needs to be carefully separated from common or garden variety religious private schools. No clear academic definition exists in the literature but in the Australian context it is the schools where reasoning based on testing hypothesis against evidence is subjugated to religious faith. It is the same schools where free inquiry is constrained and critical thinking is confined within the boundaries of religious dogma.
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The former head of ABARE, Dr Brian Fisher, famously said that, if prices are high enough, roosters will lay eggs.
Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, today said that ABARE now has egg all over its face after another woefully inaccurate oil price forecast, leaving the Australian community scrambling to deal with a fuel price crisis.
Senator Milne said, "At some point, ABARE must be held to account for its failure to model any scenario under which peak oil is a reality. Where other economic forecasters model a range of scenarios based on a range of assumptions, ABARE has consistently modelled with the same flawed assumptions, even though the evidence has shown them to be wrong time and again.
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Premier Morris Iemma's reputation as the leader who can deliver political funding reform is in tatters following the launch of possibly Labor's most extravagant fundraising program, Greens MP and donation spokesperson Lee Rhiannon said today.
"Labor's latest fundraising venture with some wealthy corporate donors paying up to $100,000 to access government ministers reveals that Premier Iemma lacks the conviction to introduce real donation reform," Ms Rhiannon said.
"If the Premier is sincere about political donation reform he should instruct the NSW Labor Party to cancel these events and to stop banking cheques from corporations and other organisations.
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The Tasmanian Greens today said that it is an open secret that the ANZ will not arrange funding for Gunns' proposed pulp mill, and that concerns over the adverse environmental impacts of the project and over the inadequacies of the Parliamentary fast track approval that have led to high levels of public antagonism are influencing factors, together with issues around world market trends.
Greens Opposition Leader Peg Putt MP believes that Gunns will need to inform the ASX of ANZ's decision not to fund the pulp mill and should possibly have already done so, but that the ANZ would not usually make announcements about their clients' business affairs such as whether they will provide funding for a project.
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The Greens today renewed their call for compensation for the Stolen Generations on the eve of National Sorry Day.
"The Government made a great leap forward when it said sorry to the Stolen Generations in February, but it is only part of the journey - reparations must be made" Senator Rachel Siewert, spokesperson on Aboriginal issues said today.
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The Benevolent Society's decision to evict the popular Maurice O'Sullivan childcare centre from the redevelopment of its Bondi site in favour of high-end luxury apartments is a high risk strategy, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Commenting on a story of page 8 of today's Sydney Morning Herald, Dr Kaye said: "Waverley municipality is in the midst of a baby boom. Between 2001 and 2006, the under five population grew by a massive 15%.
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NSW Treasurer Michael Costa could not explain a massive $358 million gap between the claim in his government's submission to the Unsworth Inquiry that privatisation would reduce state revenues by only $500 million a year and the Auditor General's figures, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Commenting on the Treasurer's response to his question in the NSW Legislative Council this afternoon, Dr Kaye said: "Michael Costa was at a loss to explain the revenue loss figure.
"The credibility of the government's arguments for the sell-off have been badly undermined.
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· Background (Feb 19, 2004)
· Coogee 2007 (Jan 25, 2007)
· Eastern Sydney (Jun 13, 2008)
· Global (May 16, 2007)
· Greens (Dec 12, 2006)
· National (Jun 25, 2008)
· NSW (Jun 02, 2008)
· Opinion (May 31, 2007)
· Vaucluse 2007 (Mar 25, 2007)
· Waverley Council (May 22, 2008)
· Wentworth 2007 (Sep 28, 2007)
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