Parliament

SECOND READING SPEECH

This Bill amends the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 and the Schools Assistance (Learning Together - Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004 to encourage healthier eating habits among children and to prohibit the broadcasting of advertisements for junk food during certain times.

Ladies and Gentlemen

Last week Bob Hawke, Tasmania’s former Labor Premier Doug Lowe and, by video from Byron Bay, former Democrats Senator Norm Sanders, joined me and 1000 other guests in Hobart to celebrate saving the wild Franklin River.

ENVIRONMENT MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR AUSTRALIA By Michele Levine, CEO Roy Morgan Research Future Summit 2008, May 12-13, Sydney The environment (including climate change/global warming, water resources, drought, famine) is the most important problem facing the World and Australia. China is the most important region to Australia for economic purposes; Indonesia is most important for security purposes; and Japan is the country Australia can most effectively work with on both.

SENATE HANSARD Monday 17 March 2008 Senator BOB BROWN (Tasmania-Leader of the Australian Greens) (4.00 pm)-I move: That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: The bloodshed in Tibet and the need for strong, decisive action by the government to insist that international laws and norms, including those safeguarding human and political rights and media access, are observed by China.

I begin, on behalf of the Australian Greens, by recognising the first Australians, the traditional owners, right across this great country of ours. I congratulate the Rudd government for yesterday's affording of the welcome to country and thank the Indigenous people for that welcome. I also thank the government for providing this important moment in our nation's history. The Greens wholeheartedly support this motion.

The old parties support, uranium mining, old growth logging and dirty coal. Give the the flick and vote Green.

As part of the alternative leader's debate, Senator Bob Brown opens the People's Forum. Copy the below You Tube video link into your browser to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iCWZk68cQ8

Opinion piece from the UK Guardian newspaper by Senator Bob Brown about the proposed Gunns pulp mill.