Christine Milne
Christine Milne is the Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson on climate change
Information
Country:
Australia

Current Office

Office:
Australian Senate
State:
Tasmania
Party:
Australian Greens
 
Christine Milne
On Monday hundreds of people came together at federal parliament to protest what is shaping up to be a shocker of an ETS, expected to be passed into law tomorrow...
Christine Milne
It's very telling that, when the ACF and Union Climate Connectors came to Canberra last week, a number of the grassroots campaigners they brought with them were shocked to discover that they were being asked to campaign for the CPRS, not against it...
Christine Milne
The Prime Minister's $7 billion offer to the Coalition is a black day for the environment, the Australian Greens said today. "How did the Prime Minister keep a straight face when dressing up the Coalition's polluters' policies in green rhetoric?" Australian Greens Leader, Senator Bob Brown asked...
Christine Milne
The Greens today released legal advice from barristers Brian Walters SC (Melbourne) and Matthew Baird (Sydney) confirming that any attempt to strengthen pollution reduction targets after the emissions trading scheme (ETS) legislation is passed could trigger a constitutional requirement for more...
Imfura Ricky Morner
Imfura Ricky Morner
It will be a shame!
Sun at 11:22pm
Christine Milne
Heather Ridout and Penny Wong have this morning demonstrated the wilful ignorance, deliberate misrepresentation and deep-seated hypocrisy that characterises the current climate change debate in Australia...
Barry Rutherford
Barry Rutherford
"It's not enough to say you care about climate change, or even to say you want action. You have to actually do what the science says is necessary because you cannot negotiate with the laws of physics and chemistry."

Absolutely. Well said !
November 19 at 8:46pm
Christine Milne
The Rudd Government's mismanagement of Senate business will result in the bill to finally give visual artists royalties for resale of their work missing out on a full Senate debate...
Christine Milne
The Capital Wind Farm at Bungendore opened by Prime Minister Rudd today may be amongst the last significant renewable energy developments in Australia if the Government fails to fix the flawed renewable energy target legislation...
Christine Milne
The Government and Opposition today voted against a Greens motion calling on the Government to plan for peak oil in the light of the most recent global figures showing that a shift from oil power to coal power is increasing global greenhouse emissions...
Maryella Hatfield Thefuturemakers
Maryella Hatfield Thefuturemakers
Australian solar thermal technology has the potential to provide power for electric transport. Is lack of support for these pioneering innovators starting to look like a national scandal?
November 19 at 3:34am
Christine Milne
Greens Deputy Leader, Christine Milne has been joined by members of the scientific and Tasmanian community in calling for the Tasmanian devil to be upgraded from endangered to critically endangered...
Christine Milne
Weak targets to guarantee coastline destruction Australian Greens Deputy Leader Christine Milne says that the government's new sea level rise report, which warns that up to 250,000 homes around Australia are at risk of inundation due to climate change by the turn of the century, highlights the...
Christine Milne
We Greens have been working hard to convince the Rudd government to green up its failure of an emissions trading scheme...
Christine Milne
The media storm over climate sceptics in the Coalition, triggered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Lowy Institute speech last Friday and the ABC's Four Corners program on Monday night, is bringing much needed rain for a government whose climate credentials were looking very dry...
Christine Milne
Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne, said: "Unless and until Mr Rudd is willing to step up to the plate and commit to the safe climate target of 40% emissions cuts, his presence at Copenhagen will only serve to hold back progress towards a meaningful global agreement...
Christine Milne
Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne have met with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong to seek a way forward on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme...
Christine Milne
The mandatory disclosure program for commercial building energy efficiency announced today by Peter Garrett is a welcome small step, but falls well short of the mark for this critical area, the Greens said today...