Australia’s billionaires revolting again? Gina Rinehart and Ivan Glasenberg?
Last year, Australians nearly wept, as they saw poor Gina Rinehart, and other underprivileged mining billionaires out in the streets, rallying to save ASustralia from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s super profits mining tax. Their pain was relieved, as with the help of the media and a few Labor heavies, this cruel threat to their $billions was removed. Indeed, Kevin Rudd was removed, to the mining lobby’s great relief.
But now, poor Gina is threatened with a Carbon Tax. She will have torarlly the media and public back out into the streets again.
But this year, Gina, and Clive Palmer, and BHP and Rio Tinto will have help.
For now, out of the shadows emerges Ivan Glasenberg. You didn’t know that he is Australian, did you? This CEO of Glencore , despite being South African, and living in Switzerland, did adopt Australian nationality.
As international company Glencore gets set to take over Xstrata Australia, it’s had to become a public company. Perhaps a good thing for all that dodgy Glencore is now (more or less) a little more visible
Ivan Glasenberg will very likely be happy to spend just a little of his $8.8 billion, to join Gina and her $10.3 billion, to fight the Australian government in its efforts to do something about Climate Change. – Christina Macpherson
Australia’s Future Fund needs legal advice on investing in nuclear weapons
“The Future Fund was applauded for divesting in cluster munitions manufacturers. The Fund’s investments in nuclear weapons are clearly untenable.
“The board must seek urgent legal advice and promptly reconsider this investment decision.”
Future Fund must seek urgent legal advice on nuclear weapons – and divest Scott Ludlam 26th May 2011, The Federal Government’s Future Fund is clearly violating its own policies and cutting across Australia’s international legal obligations by investing in companies that manufacture nuclear weapons, the Australian Greens said today. Continue reading
87% of Australians want carbon tax money to go renewable energy development
the aspect of renewable energy that should be occupying the minds of Gillard and her Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet is that it is popular…..Newspoll found that a massive 87 per cent of Australians want revenue raised by the price on pollution to be invested in renewable energy innovation.
That’s why its reluctance to embrace renewable energy as an outcome of carbon pricing is so puzzling. Putting a price on pollution will not be enough to drive new development in renewables but it does provide the ongoing source of income that could.
Gillard needs some renewable sizzle for her steak, (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Andrew Bray 26 May 2011 If Gillard wants to sell her carbon tax to the people, she needs to start spruiking the positives such as exciting new renewable energy plants…… Continue reading
Fukushima’s biggest longest impact might be on the ocean
for all the focus on land-based contamination, the continuing flood of radioactive materials into the ocean at Fukushima could have the most problematic long-term impacts. … the high radiation levels being measured indicate Fukushima’s most important impacts may be on marine life.
Is Fukushima now ten Chernobyls into the sea? Harvey Wassermann May 26, 2011 New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. Continue reading
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of the week – Disrupting War & Militarism in Oceania. Active solidarity. Radical practice.
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