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Climate Emergency at office of Martin Ferguson

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by Peter last modified Apr 30, 2010 09:12 AM
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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 Dec 16, 2008

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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/

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Sandbagging Martin Ferguson

Posted by pc at Dec 16, 2008 08:41 PM
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 ...
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The Day Democracy Closed Its Doors

Posted by jm at Dec 17, 2008 11:59 AM
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?
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