- The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8008473.stm
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Environmental Debate
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SAVE WHAT'S LEFT OF THE FORMER KEW BOWLING CLUB SITE FOR COMMUNITY USE
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URGENT APPEAL TO SAVE WHAT'S LEFT OF THE FORMER KEW BOWLING CLUB SITE FOR COMMUNITY USE
12-16 WELLINGTON STREET, KEW
SAY ENOUGH TO BOROONDARA COUNCIL ON MONDAY NIGHT!
BUT SIGN THE PETITION NOW!
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Complaints against ABC
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Last June the ABC Complaints division, which is said to reject 97% of all complaints, upheld a complaint by Julian Holland against ABC Radio over successive news bulletins on Classic FM on 27 June.
These bulletins had misrepresented Aaron Gadiel's quaintly named "Urban Task Force" as an urban planning group, rather than as a propaganda unit run by some of Australia's biggest developers. (This should not have been a difficult finding to reach, since the "Task Force's" website is explicit about its aims.) The finding is reproduced below. It was supposedly circulated to all relevant sections of the ABC.
Yet last night, 18 October 2010, Gadiel got ABC TV News to run, without critical comment or alternative point of view, a highly partisan "report" of his, in which he claimed that skilled migration needed to be ramped up because of a shortage of skilled workers.
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Pure Serendipity - Save Williamstown has impromptu meeting with Minister Madden
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Thursday, 23 September 2010
Save Williamstown appeared and presented at the Public Hearing today of the Ports and Environs Advisory Committee. We presented a compulsive case for appropriate port buffer zones around the Shipyards and the Mobil Facility at Point Gellibrand, including safety around transferring Mobil's feedstock from tanker vessels to the pipelines for the refinery. We explained how Nelson Place Village's high-rise high-density residential proposal which would house 1000+ new residents was totally inappropriate and would compromise the buffer zone protections provided for existing residents.
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Majority Against High Population Growth
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The two items below emphasise the point that while the business community still favors high population growth, the Australian public (including even the relatively "New Class" audience of Radio National) is now increasingly against it.
1. SPA member Dally Messenger has placed a reply in Business Spectator, chiding the editor Alan Kohler for his pro-population-growth take on last week's debate at the DAVOS "Future Summit":
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Conversations/The-Australian-economy-H7VMJ?OpenDocument
from Dally Messenger
27 May 2010 8:32 PM
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The Vancouver Myth Debunked
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The sad story about the death of the Paris end of Collins Street
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Imagine doing this in Paris - you would be sent to the guillotine
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Centralized planning
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Again this push for centralized planning. It is being done anyway by stealth by Maddens department. The real plan is to get total control and sideline not only councils but the people.
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The Impact of Mass Immigration on Canadian and Global Overpopulation
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In the following interview, Dr. Madeline Weld, President of the Population Institute of Canada, presents an excellent summary of the negative ecological impact of mass immigration to Canada, and its economic rationale.
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A Slightly Skeptical Perspective on "Smart" Growth: It's Necessary, but Not Sufficient
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Three years ago, Jack Marshall of the U.S. wrote the following paper, which is posted at http://www.stopgrowthasap.org/library-articles.php#library-reading-Smart-Growth , pointing out some of the limitations of “Smart Growth.”
A Slightly Skeptical Perspective on "Smart" Growth: It's Necessary, but Not Sufficient
Jack Marshall, President, Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP)
Published in Population Press, Spring 2007 (Vol. 13, Number 1)
