Critical Times

Source: Vanguard
by Ned K.
In October this year, the largest rubber and tyre manufacturer in the world, Bridgestone, announced it will close its Salisbury tyre plant in the northern suburbs of Adelaide by 30 April 2010. 600 workers will lose their jobs as a direct result of the closure.

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RSVP essential via Hawke Centre web site or phone 08 8302 0215

Thursday 11 February
5.30pm for a 6.00pm start

Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide

Keynote address by Professor Ian Lowe, President of the Australian Conservation Foundation “The truth and lies about water politics”

A sustainable Water Future without compromising the health of interdependent ecosystems is a critical issue for our state and our nation.

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Presented by Australia-East Timor Association (NSW)

at GLEEBOOKS, Glebe, SYDNEY, FRIDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2010…FROM 6PM

Friday February 12, 6 for 6.30 pm

Donations at the door for AETA

Dr Andrew McNaughtan Lecture to be given by Jude Conway

Introduction by Nigel Stewart from the Dr McNaughtan East Timor Education Foundation

Every year AETA, (the Australia-East Timor Association NSW) remembers Dr Andrew McNaughtan with a memorial lecture in his honour. Andrew was a medical practitioner from Mosman in Sydney who died in late 2003.

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by Renfrey Clarke

The target posed by James Hansen of stabilising atmospheric carbon dioxide at 350 ppm is increasingly understood in conjunction with the need to keep cumulative emissions within a tight global “budget”. While the point at which budgeted emissions occur is not in theory crucial, in practice there is a need to ensure that emissions peak early and decline swiftly thereafter. Low or zero-emissions energy generating plant needs to be built out at an accelerated rate, with the time-frame seeming to exclude nuclear power.

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Source: Charles Sturt Ratepayers & Residents

The following letter was sent to City of Charles Sturt Ratepayers & Residents website and was forwarded to The Advertiser & other newspapers for publication, as well as TV channels.

Letter to The Editor
30 December 2009

I challenge you, Premier Rann, Treasurer Foley, Attorney General Atkinson, Minister Hill & Ministers Maywald & Gago to a debate on national television. The only condition I seek is the full protection of Parliamentary Privilege; not that I intend to disclose anything but facts & my opinion of them.

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