The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWNFor comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
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