Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] NMOC - PG in cabinet
From: Tom Spencer
Date: 6/04/2015, 1:42 pm
To: Miron Mizrahi <mironmizrahi@yahoo.com>, "powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>

Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil

Hi Miron

Yeah Peter Garrett's departure was a loss, as was that of Wayne Swan and Nicola Roxon.

Maybe they just couldn't stomach the thought of campaigning with Rudd.  It sounds like people were pretty burnt out and even guilt-ridden by him, that Roxon described his axing as a (justified) "act of political bastardry" when it instead seemed that he was just dysfunctional and had to go.

Tom

From: Miron Mizrahi <mironmizrahi@yahoo.com>
To: "powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>; Tom Spencer <tr_espen@yahoo.com.au>
Sent: Friday, 27 March 2015, 9:31
Subject: Re: [powderworks] NMOC - PG in cabinet

not trying to underplay his achievements but quitting after Rudd came back was just facing political reality and quitting on your own terms. Rudd hung him out to dry during the roof insulation scheme controversy and when Rudd won the spill after PG votes against him, the writing was on the wall. had he stayed, he would have been pushed aside at the next opportunity. so he just quit. I am however disappointed that he left politics. Rudd losing was obvious too and he could have stayed and help build a new opposition
 
Miron

How could people get so unkind?





From: "Tom Spencer tr_espen@yahoo.com.au [powderworks]" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>
To: "powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: [powderworks] NMOC - PG in cabinet

 
Hi there

On PG's website:

"As Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett was instrumental in the campaign against so called “scientific whaling” in the Antarctic, culminating in Australia’s successful challenge to Japanese whaling in the International Court of Justice in 2014. He secured agreement to a national waste policy leading to Australia’s first ever e-waste recycling scheme, and delivered a long awaited resale royalty scheme for visual artists.

Following the 2010 election Peter was sworn in as Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth.
In that role he secured a broad suite of education reforms. These included legislating for the first time, a needs based funding system for all Australian schools, as well as implementing a national curriculum and initiating indigenous ranger cadetships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students."

That doesn't mention his pushing for a wildlife corridor in North Queensland, nor his putting environmental conditions on projects like the Gunns Pulp Mill.  Nor can it mention what is perhaps most important - his advocacy behind the scenes in cabinet for the environment and social justice.  He even quit cabinet rather than serve under a bad PM.  How ideologically pure is that!

Tom