Energy Efficiency

This is an article I wrote in 2007. Was the joint press release (Aug 13th) by Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and Lindy Nelson-Carr saying ‘change a light bulb, save money and help save the Planet’ really about the environment or the Premier wishing to seen in a good light? Launching the Change a Light Bulb [...]

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‘Greed is good’, ‘never let the truth get in the way of a good story’ and ‘only in America’ are synonymous with the exploitative nature of corporations in the USA. After Michael Moore’s movie Sicko (a must watch because the same insidious anti-heath care system is being introduced here in Australia) and the recent road-block [...]

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I’ve been watching the next erosive economic wave build-up as the ‘big bank’s toady’ and current RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) governor Glenn Stevens comment about lifting rates. With about as much good judgement as (the USA’s) Alan Greenspan, he is apparently not happy with interest rates at 3% and feels they should be much [...]

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Every day somewhere across the country there is an article about homelessness and the rise in the number of disadvantaged. The problem is not that complex if you consider that the structure of society is like a pyramid, with those at the top – scrambling for even more – and those at the bottom, scrambling [...]

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When the different political parties are not fighting amongst themselves and with each other, they all seemingly had a neutral territory, a waterhole or more aptly described ‘the trough‘. Corporate government is not new, buying favours has long been the go, its just that as it got more expensive to run a campaign, politicians needed [...]

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