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Yarra Climate Action Now

Yarra Climate Action Now

Yarra Climate Action Now is an independent community group based in inner-city Melbourne made up of individuals who are concerned about the climate crisis.

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Heatwave: Australia’s new weather demands a new politics

Posted on 9 January 2013 (Permalink)
Five of Australia's six states are still suffering fires after the counrty's fiercest heatwave in more than 80 years. Photograph: Kim Foale/EPA

By George Monbiot - originally published in The Guardian Climate change clashes with the myth of a land where progress is limited only by the rate at which resources can be extracted. I wonder what Tony Abbott will say about the record heatwave now ravaging his country. The Australian opposition leader has repeatedly questioned the science and [...]

Green vote surge in Federal Election

Posted on 22 August 2010 (Permalink)
greens fed election 2010

While we still don’t know who will be our Prime Minister, one thing is clear – the Greens have been the big winners in this election. Adam Bandt, Sarah Hanson-Young, Bob Brown and Richard Di Natale. Photo: AAP Here in the seat of Melbourne, Adam Bandt won his party’s first ever lower house seat (in [...]