The Australian Greens party

[qldfrog]

Plastic bag use by customers at supermarkets has dropped 80% in the last 12 months.

Total plastic consumption!
During that fiasco, the abc gad an article on a research based on similar bans.
It was clear overall plastic consumption increase with one off bags replaced with thicker bags which are not used long enough to compensate for the extra material, moreover, being thicker they decomposed less and are a bigger hazard.
If genuine, do your search.no time for that was abc online
The usual green sh*t
Unthought feel good simple but headless solutions

 

[qldfrog]

There is it Explod
We have successfully increased not only plastic consumption but cost for consumers and profit for the retailers
A clear win the right would never have been to achieve
Thanks the greens
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/9874474
If you fill people's head with propaganda BS, you end up with Bs results

 

[qldfrog]

I leave you to it, life is too short but you are a good person Explod.
Sort thru the crap, propaganda and hidden facts are not always on the other side
And i know you even believe the abc does not treat you fairly so how can i change your view and open your eyes.all the best.i am out

 

[explod]

Can see why Mr Rabbit is now seriously considering CC:-

LONDON — A huge student protest movement led almost exclusively by teenage girls and young women is sweeping Europe, and it's on the brink of breaking through in the US.

So far this year, tens of thousands of high school–age students in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden have boycotted class and protested against climate change. The loose movement’s inspiration, a 16-year-old girl who began a solitary picket last year outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, has compared the protests to the March for Our Lives movement organized by the Parkland teens in the wake of a shooting at their school that left 17 dead.

In the latest mass climate strikes, large crowds took to the streets in The Hague on Thursday, in the largest such protest in the Netherlands so far. The teens leading the climate strike across the border in Belgium were in Leuven, the country’s eighth-largest city, where they told BuzzFeed News they had 12,000 people on the streets in one of many actions across the country.

A climate march last weekend in the Belgian capital, Brussels, drew more than 100,000 people, and one of the country’s environment ministers resigned this week after falsely claiming intelligence services had told her the protests were a plot against her.

The protests are injecting a new urgency into the debate around climate change, and calling attention to a lack of action by governments. They are also a sign of the new political power of young women, especially in Europe. Climate strikes have also been organized by students in Australia, and US organizers are planning to participate in an international day of action on March 15.

Jamie Margolin, the 17-year-old founder and executive director of Zero Hour, a group working on the March 15 protest in the US, told BuzzFeed News that climate activism has given young women like her a chance to be heard.

“There aren’t very many spaces that I can be in charge of, and what I’m going to say is going to be heard,” Margolin said. Her group is led largely by young women of color, which she said should come as no surprise, because people who are already vulnerable are going to be disproportionately hit by climate change. A 2014 report by the World Health Organization outlined that women are more likely to be harmed in the kinds of natural disasters made more likely by global warming, bear greater responsibility for getting access to water, energy, and other basics of domestic life, and often are shut out of opportunities when resources decline."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...kO1fiswqdn8ce01MdvPA4uHz3muVwtPCs1gT4xwYfJCsc

 

[wayneL]

They protest, yet take no responsibility themselves. Just diabolically hypocritical and downright stupid.

Plod you are still the only Green I know of, that lives what you preach; the rest are fools, especially these silly little girls.

 

[explod]

Regardless of religion or background we the Greens are strong on this. None of us asked to be born so we should therefore be treated equally.

Senator Nick McKim

 

[explod]

Dr. Robert Holian for Bendigo 2019

 

[SirRumpole]

Dr. Robert Holian for Bendigo 2019

Didn't they used to be called Building Societies or Credit Unions ?

 

[wayneL]

Didn't they used to be called Building Societies or Credit Unions ?

I was about to make the same point.

 

[explod]

No State Bank of Victoria was a peoples bank. I think before Thatcherism most banks were public. Just like SEC, PMG and Universities to name a few.

The State Bank of Victoria was an Australian bankthat existed from 1842 until 1990 when it was taken over by the Commonwealth Bank. It was owned by the State of Victoria.
State Bank of Victoria - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bank_of_Victoria

 

[cynic]

No State Bank of Victoria was a peoples bank. I think before Thatcherism most banks were public. Just like SEC, PMG and Universities to name a few.

If that is so, then why the FTSE, did SBV have exemption from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act?

 

[explod]

If that is so, then why the FTSE, did SBV have exemption from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act?

Was not aware of that, I worked in the FOI office administering applications for Vicpol for a couple of years so would be pleased if you could elaborate.

 

[cynic]

Was not aware of that, I worked in the FOI office administering applications for Vicpol for a couple of years so would be pleased if you could elaborate.

I worked for SBV back in the late 80's. The revelations from its collapse in 1990 , spoke volumes about the issues surrounding the lack of transparency and accountability.

 

[explod]

I worked for SBV back in the late 80's. The revelations from its collapse in 1990 , spoke volumes about the issues surrounding the lack of transparency and accountability.

Fair enough, those things creep in over time. In fact the governments began to remove a lot of checks and balances then, other things also, safety officers and health inspectors etc., as privatisation began the Guvmints became more concerned with cutting public costs. However from it's beginning in the 1840s it served well

The reason I was called to the FOI office was due to an overload when a number of high ranking cops took flights with a new airline at 90% discounts. 1985, Continental Airline affair.

 

[wayneL]

@SirRumpole apologies for the rude emoticon above. I didn't have my glasses on and thought it was a thumbs up, completely unintentional. I have deleted the emoticon.

 

[SirRumpole]

@SirRumpole apologies for the rude emoticon above. I didn't have my glasses on and thought it was a thumbs up, completely unintentional. I have deleted the emoticon.

No problem wayne.

 

[Darc Knight]

Let me see which Green in SEQld has the smallest margin. Turn the other cheek says Jesus. Sorry Jesus - I ain't a Christian and I do travel and have wide spread resources.

 

[wayneL]

Thoughts on Bolt/Di Natalie interview?

I thought Di Natalie got pwned, but may be biased. I thought his position was unconscionable.

 

[Darc Knight]

Thoughts on Bolt/Di Natalie interview?

I thought Di Natalie got pwned, but may be biased. I thought his position was unconscionable.

Got a link pls?

 

[rederob]

They protest, yet take no responsibility themselves. Just diabolically hypocritical and downright stupid.
Plod you are still the only Green I know of, that lives what you preach; the rest are fools, especially these silly little girls.

They are protesting because they have no other voice.
Your claim that they take no responsibility themselves is utterly baseless, which seems the norm from you.
Your other comments are equally worthless.