Tag: Canberra Australia
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Federation Failure
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT? by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Aug. 24, 2020) — Federation in Australia gave three essential tasks to the central Government – maintenance of free trade between states, defence, and quarantine. But state borders are closed, defence is enfeebled by gender-agenda and poor equipment choices, and…
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Canberra Water for Environmental Flow?
“VERY ANGRY PEOPLE” by Ron Pike, The Saltbush Club, ©2019 (Aug. 25, 2019) — A notice to THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA and THE PEOPLE OF CANBERRA. “A delegation of people from waterless western NSW is planning to come to Canberra to demonstrate to the people of the ACT how they are destroying lives and…
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“Zero Emissions” will Test the Convictions of Canberrans
“THE WAY FOR AUSTRALIA” by Viv Forbes, ©2017, carbon-sense.com (Nov. 2, 2017) — Canberra, with its “zero emissions” target, yearns to be Australia’s greenest address. Good. Let’s use them as a full-blown test of “zero emissions” before we all jump over that cliff. Canberra passes thousands of laws for us. If their zero emissions dream…