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Hey Mr Garrett! Time to get off our arts and do nothing
Melbourne :: Australia | 6 days ago
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This is great news if you have been concerned that Australian literature, TV, music, film, theatre, painting and performance art is a bit, well, aimless...Announced recently by Peter Garrett, what the national cultural policy lacks in ambition, it more...
Tags: cultural policy, Australia, Commonwealth Arts Council, Peter Garrett, Melbourne, Culture, Graffiti, Entrepreneurial mindset, High culture, Social policy
Party island's headache
Sydney :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility Queensland's Great Keppel Islandwas known as the party island, the place to "get wrecked", in the 1980s. Now, island residents say their livelihood is being wrecked by the saga of a proposed $1.15 billion resort redevelopment. "Because of politicians...
Tags: Great Keppel Island Resort, Tower Holdings, Peter Garrett, Keppel Islandwas, Geoff Mercer, Australia, Sydney, Great Keppel Island, Hospitality Recreation, Great Barrier Reef
A 'Green Start' for vulnerable households
Canberra :: Australia | 10 days ago
Credibility Canberra, Mr Garrett said the Rudd Government's will connect Australia's most vulnerable households with practical and personal advice and support. "On average, low-income earners spend a higher proportion of their weekly household budget on energy and...
Tags: Australia, Canberra, Environment, Peter Garrett, Politics, Social Issues, Midnight Oil, Garrett
Grants for community festivals
Palmerston :: Australia | 18 days ago
Credibility Arts Minister Peter Garrett today announced funding of $420,500 for arts and cultural activities at 27 community festivals around Australia. "Festivals in outer regional and remote communities will have the opportunity to add special arts and performance...
Tags: communities festival, festival australia, Mr Garrett, Australia, Palmerston, Festival, Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett, Puppetry
Caring for our iconic heritage
Sydney :: Australia | 18 days ago
Credibility Announcing the funding today, Environment Minister Peter Garrett said World Heritage funding was a key element of the Government's Caring for our Country initiative. "Australia's World Heritage includes some of our most cherished and important places,...
Tags: Country World Heritage, Western Australia, iconic heritage, Macquarie Island, heritage funding, Australia, Sydney, Wollemi National Park, Peter Garrett, Biodiversity, Blue Mountains, Willandra Lakes Region, New South Wales, World Heritage Site, Environment
Dam busters
Brisbane :: Australia | 19 days ago
Credibility Glenbo Craig protests at Kandanga at the apparent approval the government gave to the Traveston dam. Photo: John McCutcheon AS THE president of the Australian Conservation Foundation back in 1989, Peter Garrett was a vocal opponent of the Wolffdene Dam...
Tags: Anna Bligh, Traveston Crossing Dam, Peter Garrett, Queensland Labor, east queensland, Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Water Association, Australian Rivers Institute, Stuart Bunn, water supply, Australia, Brisbane, Peter Beattie, Dam, Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Premiers of Queensland, Mary River, Environment
Plan now for a sensible limit to our population
Sydney :: Australia | 21 days ago
Credibility I read that the Labor backbencher Kelvin Thompson has launched a 14-point plan to contain Australia's runaway population ("Here's looking at you kids: NSW leads a boom in babies", November 12). At last someone in the Federal Government has recognised...
Tags: Australian Press Council, Herald, league tables, Israeli, climate change, St Paul's College, mental illness, Mount Druitt HSC, schools league, Mr Garrett, Australia, Sydney, Dam, Global warming controversy, Peter Garrett, Overpopulation, Australian Greens, Global warming, Environmental skepticism, Environment
Divide and conquer highway hell
Ballina :: Australia | 21 days ago
Credibility The central idea of totalitarian democracies is the perfectibility of human nature on earth...This is the idea underpinning the inexplicable failure of successive governments, state and federal, to provide proper First World infrastructure such as dams...
Tags: pacific highways, Kempsey, NSW North Coast, RTA, Peter Garrett, Pacific Highway, Grafton, Australia, Ballina, Newcastle New South Wales, Port Stephens Council, Roads and Traffic Authority, Dual carriageway, Environment, Types of roads, Australian highways, Lake Macquarie
Garrett Rejects $1.8 Billion Traveston Dam
Brisbane :: Australia | 24 days ago
Credibility Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says Queensland's controversial $1.8 billion Traveston Crossing Dam should not go ahead. "After considering the Traveston Dam proposal and the best available scientific evidence and other material ... Traveston...
Tags: Mr Garrett, Peter Garrett, Traveston Dam, environment minister, Mary River, Traveston Crossing Dam, Queensland, federal environment, minister peter, Anna Bligh
Female pollies 'work harder than men'
Brisbane :: Australia | 29 days ago
Credibility Dr Mary Crawford, the federal member for Forde from 1987 to 1996, told a Women in Parliament conference that women parliamentarians face "glass obstacles" of always being judged on their appearance. This unrelenting focus had denied women MPs recognition...
Tags: Peter Garrett, women mp
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