Amanda handing out material at Blackburn Station
..... and please do your bit.
To-day was a busy day for Environment Victoria campaigners. There is a Federal election on as we all know on 21 August. Election fever is in full swing - and it is a good season for increasing environmental awareness and pressing home to the politicians and the general public the need for good management and good decisions.
In addition, Victoria heads for the polls on November 24. So this is a time for hard work and activity and making known the environmental needs of Victoria. Water is high on the list - water for the environment. Government making good and enlightened decisions about water - instead of the mish-mash of political opportunism that has seen the mismanagement of water in Victoria for far too long.
Amelia and Trier in action. Response was great. Thank you, Blackburn!
After the hand-outs on the coming and going sides of Blackburn Railway Station in competition with former Mitcham MP and current Liberal Candidate, Phil Barrresi, it was over to Tony Robinson's conveniently situated office where the drivers of Blackburn pleased us greatly with their honking support. We wish Tony could please us as well as his constituents do with some responsive and responsible action both in his electorate and with his parliamentary colleagues on water and environmental matters.
Miss Eagle with the "I care" bubble
And then it was off to City Square, to do my bit to assist in the promotion of the Walk Against Warming. EV put a whole new slant on the publicity and we attracted the ABC, Channel 9, The Age and a wire service. So be watching. The star of the show was five and half (I'm nearly six, you know) Finlay. The camera personnel loved him and he performed accordingly. We are considering looking for a manager for him now. And here we are......
All in all - a fun and rewarding day.
Let's hope it contributes to putting the environment and climate change
on a better course.
See you all at the Walk on Warming.
You can do it in the Melbourne CBD.
You can do it in the seat of Mitcham.
You can do it in the seat of La Trobe.
Just click this link.
PS: Thursday morning. Over at ABC Environment they have this beaut picture of our Finlay:
Well, I figured you had been out all day.
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What can I say about today's display?
I have already been caught out using that R word. Is it like the N Word in America? OK for N Persons to use it, but nobody else?
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I was disappointed to discover that the local State member is Tony Robinson, but not the British actor, but a guy whose only claim to fame is writing (editing) two books on racing.
See: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members/id/149.
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The following is my personal opinion only. I am abstaining from Walk Against Warming this year, as it is so transparently a front for the Greens. I am afraid that knowing many of the key NSW Greens, I cannot vote for them.
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Cheers
Denis
I don't like the R world and I don't use it - however this was in a good cause. I compensate by telling people about the fellow in NZ who is taking a discrimination against a radio station which had a Hug a Ranga To-day promotion. He says that it is discrimination because red hair is related to ethnicity. And we did have a tonne of fun!
ReplyDeleteYeah, well I don't know the local Greens here as you do in NSW. WaW has in past years been rather big in Melbourne - so, as far as I can tell, having only marched once since I have been in Melbourne, that it is a mainstream activity such as Michael Long's Long Walk.
I am happy to go along with The Greens ambition to hold the balance of power in the Senate. I think we are at the stage where we do need a safety net against the two major parties. Now I am not saying that I believe The Greens will actually be capable of being that safety net. But it sure would give us, the voting public, an opportunity to size up what The Greens are like when the wood is on them; when they have to make real life, real politik, pragmatic decisions.
And it would be interesting to watch how The Greens constituency would take the idea of Bob Brown overseeing a pragmatic impure decision. I can't imagine that either The Gumnut Fairies or The Fascists among The Greens would be well pleased!
Hi Brigid
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I have done 3 Walks Against Warming. The first was pure fun. Second not bad. The third required us to stand in silence. The only thing missing was "sack-cloth and Ashes".
Never again, not for me, anyway.
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Loved your last paragraph.
Says it all.
Denis