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Magazine of the Australian Greens Peace & Non Violence | Grassroots Democracy | Social & Economic Justice | Ecological Sustainability greenmagazine of the australian greens Global Justice Amnesty Human rights Copenhagen: International through the What went on explores our lens of our own and what lies need for a bill of indigenous ahead for the human rights affairs planet? Issue 30 - Summer 2010 For a more Sustainable Future… greenmagazine of the australian greens Act Now. Please commit to a regular Yes! I would like to donation to the Greens to help ✔receive information about ensure our voice is strong. Your making a regular monthly support now is critical for the contents future of our party and the planet. donation to the Greens. 2 editorial letters to the editor As the Greens grow in both size Please contact us for information on how 3 and influence, our ability to sustain you can help your Greens party with a trans-tasman greens regular donation. 4 bob reports back on the joint party room meeting between the australian and new zealand greens our party and campaigns becomes increasingly important. To help the 5 defamation in nsw Greens continue to represent you Freecall: 1800 017 011 greens mp ian cohen is facing financial ruin following a defamation case at all levels of government and to Email: [email protected] 6 an australian bill of rights campaign on a wide range of issues Mail: GPO Box 1108 claire mallinson from amnesty international australia explains the progress of australia’s very own bill of rights that affect us all, we need your Canberra ACT 2601 gay marriage financial support. 10 tim wright looks at the history, landscape and potential for gay marriage in Australia. As a grassroots party, our donations Become a regular giver today and make copenhagen: what the hell happened? 12 freshly returned from the global climate talks of cop15, christine milne explains what happened, and more a monthly donation to support the work come from real people, from party importantly, where to from here members and people who support of the Greens. Each State party has a our campaigns and initiatives, not regular giving program. A regular human rights in the nt gift means that the party is 14 professor larissa behrendt looks to the horrors of the nt intervention to outline australia’s need for explicit human rights from large corporations better able to set budgets and plan campaigns. how we greened the deal 18 brad lacey reports back on the ideas and outcomes of the green new deal conference held in melbourne in late 2009 www.greens.org.au teaching language 20 greg dickson gives us a view into the complex needs for indigenous language and learning support, an issue which has become more urgent with the proposed changes to education in indigenous communities in the northern territory federal election 2010 22 hear about the upcoming federal election plan from our national campaign coordinator ebony bennett bob’s back page the super raelene bros in collaboration with 24 western arrarnta and luritja musicians ‘the little Alice Springs sisters collective’ have just released their debut serial information: green magazine, issue thirty 2010 single ‘wiya! angela pamela’. publisher: the australian greens | editor: lefa singleton norton | design: a new leaf media assistant editor: bianca durrant | contributors: ebony bennett, larissa behrendt, bob brown, greg dickson, brad lacey, claire mallinson, christine sung in arrarnta and luritja, the song is both a cry milne, tim wright | front cover: cc licensed flickr user azrainman | back cover: bob brown | comic: firstdogonthemoon | crossword: bob brown Little Sisters for help in the campaign to protect indigenous issn: 1443-6701 | mission statement: to provide a quality magazine presenting uplifting, up-to-date, action-oriented information vital to the australian green Amoonguna communities threatened by the proposed angela- movement | printed by: goanna print, canberra | printed on: cover monza hi-gloss recycled chlorine-free art 150gsm, body cydus post-consumer recycled. pamela uranium mine, and a celebration of the power of indigenous voices to stand and defend disclaimer: the opinions expressed in green magazine are the views of the authors alone. they do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or of Anthepe the wellbeing of their people. the australian greens, staff, members, or sponsors. green magazine aims for its material to be accurate at the time of print but this is not always possible. 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Airport pamela uranium mine. order the single online or Town Bore download for free at the australian greens wish to acknowledge that we are on indigenous ground – this land is the spiritual and sacred place of the traditional owners and Water Supply their ancestors and continues to be a place of significance. further, we thank them for sharing this land with us and agree to respect their laws and lores. single out now! www.superraelenebrothers.com.au Angela Pamela editorial: [email protected] order online ring JJJ on 1300 0555 36 to request airplay, vote for it on the JJJ unearthed website, or give a copy of the advertising, subscription & mailing inquiries: [email protected] www.superraelenebrothers.com.au 19k from Alice Springs single to your local community radio or rave dj… postal address: gpo box 1108 canberra act 2601 contributions welcome: articles can range from 300-1200 words. brief items & letters to the editor or photographic/illustrative works also welcome. editorial letters to the editor HAMILTON K TIMOTHY USER Got something to say? Drop us a line at FLICKR [email protected] LICENSED CC : : CREDIT providing global justice PIC he Melbourne population growth is by We need to be able in and out of Parliament, appy new year, all! I hope 2010 is off to an pressure from individuals who want to see real tabloids never stop and large unregulated and to inspire the largely and it would be good to enjoyable and productive start for everyone. change. Amnesty International Australia’s National writing about it; is growing with around uninterested youth of get their valued opinion Here at Green we’re still taking in the last Director Claire Mallinson shares with us the very real OurT politicians are always 2000 new arrivals each today to take arms (in on some campaigns, issues Hfew eventful months of 2009, while looking forward need for a Bill of Human Rights here in Australia, telling us about their plans week migrating to this a peaceful manner, of and political agendas. to what we hope will be a brave new decade. With while Larissa Behrendt discusses in light of how to deal with it; People and city. My calculations course), both for their own The changeover of Copenhagen finishing off a decade where climate such a Bill would support and protect the rights of commuters never stop tell me Melbourne’s future benefit, but also to government in WA, change and environmental issues have risen to the Indigenous Australians. Tim Wright articulates the complaining about it: population could reach help our party grow past allowance of GM crops, forefront of the global consciousness, Christine Milne debate on Same-Sex Marriage, and Greg Dickson traffic congestion. almost 6 million by 2025. the ‘greenie’ stereotype. expanded mining and shares her thoughts on the summit. Brad Lacey also gives us a view into the complex needs for Indigenous Overcrowding on This is no accident, as big I would love to see possibility of uranium rounds off another of the key environmental issues of language and learning support. our roads and a lack of business and governments a regular column in mining are important importance at the closing of 2009 with his round-up This is a jam-packed issue, which we hope gives you capacity in our public stand to benefit from this magazine from the issues over here in the from the Green New Deal conference. plenty of food for thought as we shift out of holiday transport system is a growth, bigger consumer young Greens. Reading West and deserve to be Looking ahead, we are focusing on the big picture season and begin this fresh decade. source of daily frustration markets and taxation Jake Wishart’s take on addressed in a forum such work on which governments (our own included) Lefa Singleton Norton - Editor for all of us. revenue. We have to suffer the Green New Deal as Green magazine. are lagging behind, despite the almost unrelenting [email protected] Politicians want more the costs while others Conference in the last Likewise, I would freeways and roads while receive the profits. edition was a welcome appreciate hearing about their critics argue for The only real solution change and a breath other campaigns around more capacity in public to traffic congestion and of fresh air. Could his the country. The ongoing Senate Cross-words transport and greater overcrowding is to subvert contribution (or perhaps a forestry campaigns in infrastructure investment. the dominant paradigm. rotating schedule of young Tasmania, the battle to While many a cross word is excited in the But there is nothing JOHN GLAZEBROOK green activists) be made a save the Murray in SA and Senate, Bob occasionally doodles a happier new about this problem. Endeavour Hills Victoria regular occurrence? the fight against large- crossword of his own to send to Paul with his Canadian economist As a person committed scale desalination plants daily card from Canberra. John Kenneth Galbraith to the Greens but getting in Victoria are all great Here’s a sample, created during a one hour wrote about the paradox on in years myself, I am campaigns that I have parliamentary question time in which zero of “private affluence and I am often disappointed eager to pass on the torch heard about but would information was extracted from ministers.
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