Glen asked the question: “Just as Prime-Minister Julia Gillard visited India recently to talk up a uranium export deal, India's own Auditor-General has warned of a "dangerously unsafe, disorganised" nuclear industry with "ineffective" oversight. Many Australians don't want to see their uranium partly responsible for future nuclear disasters which could potentially kill thousands and displace millions in the world's second most populous country. Wouldn't it be better to leave Australian uranium in the ground and instead help India develop decentralised renewables to...”
Glen asked the question: “The Greens have delivered preferences necessary for the ALP to win many seats, provided support for your minority government and facilitated the passing of your government's key reforms. Strangely the ALP has viciously attacked the Greens recently as being 'extremist' while doing preference deals with far-right fringe groups such as 'Family First' as if no lesson was learned from the Steve Fielding debacle. Why does the ALP treat its key ally as an enemy and is it not paramount that Tony Abbott and his extreme agenda are prevented from taking...”
Glen asked the question: “Many Australians feel democracy has been hijacked by corporate lobbyists and that policymaking is driven by whatever vested interests have the biggest pockets to manipulate public opinion. Can anyone offer some practical wisdom on how democracy can be reclaimed by the people, for the people and so that it once again centres on what is best for our society in the long term?”
