This is our last chance to stop the Green Wedge destruction and landholder rip-off legislation now before Parliament.
Please join the
Green Wedges Coalition, Taxed Out, Protectors of Public Lands and Planning Backlashin a demonstration on the steps of Parliament House at 12.30 for 1 pm next Tuesday 24 November.
Speakers will include:
Colleen Hartland MLC - My adjournment matter is for the attention of the Minister for Environment and Climate Change. The South West Environment Action Group, based in Warrnambool, is presenting a week of recycling action for National Recycling Week this week. Tomorrow it will be hosting a recycling day on Civic Green in Warrnambool from 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. South West Environment Action Group is a small, non-funded, community-based organisation with a dozen or so active members.
Greens MLC Colleen Hartland says the government has "absolutely no plan for Brimbank" following the sacking of Brimbank Council today in Parliament.
"What came out in Parliament today was completely bizarre", said Ms Hartland
"The administrators will negotiate their salaries with the Minister, then decide what to cut from the budget to pay for it. We could lose a park over this."
Rod Quantock and the Frankston & Mornington Peninsula Australian Greens *Presents*
*BUGGER THE POLAR BEARS, THIS IS SERIOUS*
Arguably the most important show in human history
"*Rod* says everything you want to say. Everything you want to scream. He's right, but *Bugger The Polar Bears - This Is Serious* is more than just catharsis for greenies. Much more" ..
Prof. Rene van Acker brings a sceptical view to promises of GM coexistence, segregation and contamination. An account of the Canadian experience and a taste of his professional views are in the attached document FYI. Please attend Rene's lunchtime meeting this Friday. BYO lunch or eat after.
Prof. Rene van Acker - University of Guelph, Canada
Friday November 13, 12.30 pm Meeting Room, Ground Floor
60L Green Building 60 Leicester St, Carlton (Melway 1E: J1)
Greet Agriculture Minister Joe Helper, Monsanto and conference delegates to hand back GM canola collected by Cropwatch from roadsides in Victoria and NSW.
Tuesday November 10, at 9am
Main entrance, Melbourne Convention Centre
Convention Centre Place, South Melb (Melway map 1C: B3)
(NB: the Centre has moved so map attached)
GENETICALLY modified canola has jumped containment lines and "contaminated" a commercial beehive in western Victoria, prompting claims that people are not being told enough about what they eat.
Scientific testing on behalf of Greenpeace Australia found Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" canola strain, which is resistant to some herbicides, had contaminated hives near Bannockburn owned by Edmonds Honey.
Victoria lifted a moratorium on growing GM canola in November 2007 after being advised it could be kept separate from non-GM crops.
Greenpeace spokeswoman Louise Sales said the contamination meant people were being denied choice: anyone buying honey from the affected hive could be eating GM food without knowing it.
