Talks Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'


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In the Zone - Perth, Future Australia Conference 2009

Crisis, Opportunity & the New World Order - 8-10 November 2009

In the Zone is a major future international public policy conference initiated by the University of Western Australia. The conference will stimulate public debate  on the public policy, geopolitical and business challenges facing Australia and its major trading partners in China, Japan, India South Korea and South-East Asia.

Key themes include -

Australia's role in the Asian Century

regional financial markets in the new world order

foreign investment & sovereignty

media futures

cities & population health

higher education in the 21st Century

Pandemic management

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Tesla Motors moves to commercialise an electric car

For those Perth drivers who can get by with a car that will do 400km's on a single charge from their mains supply, an electric family car is on the way.

Daimler Motors has taken a 10% stake in the company and the US Department of Energy has provided the comapny with $365 million in low interest loans.

Rig your solar array on your roof and prepare to drive for free. Check out the cars here

 


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VIDEO: Good, clean internet censorship?

The power of the internet is in collaboration. So, having asked you to submit your ideas for a TV ad turning up the heat on the Government's internet censorship plan, we're proud to announce the result: a sharp parody video that highlights how ridiculous the plan is - Censordyne!

Luckily, we know where every politician, their advisers and political journos will be - on a plane to Canberra for the next sitting week of Parliament. With your help, we'll have this video playing on every Qantas flight in the country for that entire week:

www.getup.org.au/campaign/Censordyne

Imagine that: every politician will be a captive audience; strapped into their seats and transfixed on the screen in front of them. We can even make sure our ad plays in the middle of the news bulletin - which they're sure to be watching.

That's also over 340,000 passengers who'll find out about the Government's unpopular and ineffective plan to censor the internet while flying around the country. What's more, they've got plenty of time to discuss the issue with those sitting around them.

Let's harness the power of the internet to save it - your contribution, matched by thousands of others like you, can take our campaign sky high. And it couldn't be at a more crucial time, with trials of the filter about to finish the Government will soon make a decision:

www.getup.org.au/campaign/Censordyne

 


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Why Western Australia Will Eclipse Dubai

We’ve all marvelled at the mega scale engineering projects that have defined Dubai and the United Arab Emirates over the past decade including artificial islands, massive skyscrapers rising up out of the desert sand and huge indoor snow ski fields but much of this development has been nothing more than an outpouring of the egotism of a bunch of middle eastern would-be-kings and a complete misallocation of resources. Not only are these megaliths a symbol of excess & misallocation, they are also the product of an exploited and downtrodden expatriate workforce.

 

It is the people of a nation that hold all the promise for the future and Dubai is now an emptied out husk with their airport littered with cars left behind by fleeing citizens and foreign workers afraid of the terrors of Sharia law as the leave behind unpaid loans in the wake of the recent financial meltdown.

 

Hopefully we the citizens of Western Australia will have watched and learned from the downfall of the UAE and Dubai. Perhaps we will invest wisely in educating our young people and refrain from exploiting the poor and the downtrodden. After all, when the minerals are leached from the ground we will have to make do with the imagination of our citizens.

 

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The Curse of Religion - why progress will be compromised in Western Australia

And here is the problem: the religions think they have much greater rights than anyone or anything else – rights to be heard, to be exempt from laws, to be awarded special privileges, to be given our tax money to run their own schools, to have representatives in the House of Lords (26 bishops plus all those retired bishops and archbishops who are now life peers), to be given hours and hours of air time on publicly funded radio every week, to have charitable status, to have their hospital chaplains paid for by the public purse, and so on and endlessly on, getting a huge slice of the pie out of all proportion to the realities: which – as an indication of the overall picture – are that about 3% of the population go to Church of England services every Sunday, less than 10% of the population going weekly to any church, temple, mosque or synagogue. And the state goes along with it!

How can this be tolerable? All religious organisations should be relegated to the status of private self-selected and self-constituted NGOs like trade unions and other lobby groups, should survive on what money they can raise from their adherents, should have the same and no more than the same rights and entitlements as any other such organisation and should stop getting privileges, money and an amplification for their views (views, never forget, derived from the beliefs of illiterate goat-herds in ancient times) from government.

What would we think if the Labour party or Conservative party received taxpayers' money to run Labour party or Conservative party schools to teach 3- and 4-year-olds their party principles? Or astrologers, crystal gazers, voodoo merchants, druids, witches – all self-described and self-selected as such, and all parti-pris in their own way?

Let us note how the archbishops and rabbi stand together to block progress towards more humane laws. Technically, of course, each archbishop is doctrinally obliged to regard the other one and the rabbi as one or more of heretic, infidel or apostate; their organisations spent most of history fighting, persecuting and executing each other; indeed all religions have to regard all other religions as getting it wrong and misleading their votaries.

But when the religions are after a common goal, as with getting our tax money for their faith-based schools, or exemption from discrimination laws, or seats in parliament, they are a united front. This used to be called hypocrisy, but no doubt modern theology has come up with a convoluted polysyllable to redefine it.

Not that a new name helps much; rubbish smells as bad no matter what you call it. Read the complete article by AC Greyling


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C2030 all about infrastructure for the future of Western Australia

Join the C2030 summit in Perth and another one in Broome to explore infrastructure options for the Western Australia of tomorrow.

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Alkimos - next major city development north of Perth

Perth's North West Corridor is expected to grow rapidly over the next couple of decades with an expected population of almost half a million people moving into the area.

The Alkimos city will be located 40 kilometers north of the Perth CBD and will be the first Australian city of significance to boast a carbon neutral environment.

It is expected that the Northern rail link will be extended up to the Alkimos city and that the city will boast a full compliment of community facilities including schools, shops, medical facilities and a marina with more boat berths than the Hillarys Marina. Read more about Alkimos City


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Layar, the future of reality augmentation for Perth


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Our solar future in Western Australia

It's coming! A roofscape of solar panels are likely to emerge over the sky line in every Western Australian metropolitan suburb. Driven by frightening energy price rises, falling solar array costs and green energy rebates, consumers are highly likely to embrace a solar future. The embrace of this solar future will have a cascading effect on the use of battery driven transport. Why not use your solar array to power your transport as well as your home, office or factory?

 


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