Sustainable in Suburbia

Over the next few days I will be publishing posts on the major political parties stances on climate change. Read them for yourselves and see what you think. Try not to bang your head on the wall too much!

First up…

The Australian Labor Party…

Climate Change Blueprint – Protecting Australia from the Long-term Threat

This Blueprint outlines Labor’s practical measures to tackle climate change. Only a nation-building Beazley Labor Government will act to save Australian icons like the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu which experts predict will soon be devastated by the ravages of climate change.

Just as importantly, protecting Australia from the threat of climate change also protects Australia’s future prosperity.

The Prime Minister’s failure of leadership means a failure to address the threat to our economy posed by climate change.Protecting Australia from the threat of climate change.

Blueprint no.6.Download Protecting Australia from the threat of climate change Protecting Australia from the threat of climate change – 83 Kbytes

Australian Labor Party: Kim Beazley’s policy blueprints

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GetUp! – Action

/imagine a cultural icon six times older than the
Pyramids, eight times older than Stonehenge. Imagine probably the
earliest surviving rock carvings on this planet. Most Australians have
never even heard of these rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula, and
have no idea this silent world treasure is at risk of being needlessly
pulled apart and destroyed from blind industrial development.

Help us to tell Australia’s Environment Minister we
want to save the remaining rock art from destruction, and make Burrup
what it should be: one of the world’s most well-known and
safely-visited heritage sites. GetUp’s submission to the Hon Ian
Campbell will cover:

1) Making Burrup a national heritage
site, with boundary lines covering remaining rock carvings so that any
further industrial development occurs on other suitable sites.

2) Calling for an independent,
bi-partisan authority to conduct a complete inventory of rock art on
the islands in consultation with Indigenous, heritage and scientific
authorities.

3) A
management plan to be drawn up in open consultation between all
parties, including state and federal governments, Indigenous groups,
conservationists and industry.

Want to do something or at least, read more? Go here.

or Australia – www.getup.org.au

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