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Climate Emergency at office of Martin Ferguson

by Peter last modified 2008-12-16 00:02

One of a series of actions across Melbourne organised by FoE Melbourne's Climate Justice Collective during a nation-wide day of protest at the Rudd Government's announced emission reduction targets ...

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Produced 2008/12/16
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For background to this action and others on the day, see http://www.foe.org.au/media-releases/2008-media-releases/carbon-scheme-a-recipe-for-disaster and http://stepitupaustralia.wordpress.com/

Copyright 2007, by the contributing author. Cite/attribute Resource. pc. (2008, December 15). Climate Emergency at office of Martin Ferguson. Retrieved February 10, 2010, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/pc/videos/16dec08-ferguson.avi. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License

Sandbagging Martin Ferguson

Posted by Peter at 2008-12-16 04:41
Should have made it clearer that the Minister had decided discretion was the better part etc - police were not far away, but the office was closed for the day in view of the impending protest ...

The Day Democracy Closed Its Doors

Posted by jm at 2008-12-16 19:59
There you go. They were concerned that constituents might not be able to access their democratic representatives, so they shut down the office, and thereby prevented constituents accessing their democratic representatives.

A sad day for democracy in this country.

If you can't voice your concern to your local member of parliament about this, who can you speak to?