National issues & debates?

Submitted by Steve Irons on Sat, 05/01/2013 - 11:50am

In the previous blog "Left over from a by-gone era" we explain that the present State boundaries are out of date and need to be changed.

When you look at a map of Australia with new, modern  eyes, the absurdity of current boundaries is obvious.

  • In the present transport technology of fast trains, and modern transport hubs, and 787 aircraft, what has that border got to do with rail, road, air transport?
  • In the need to protect the river systems, what has that border got to offer? It can't even focus on the Murray River, only one side of it. NSW ruling elite don't even know that the water in the Darling River comes from Northern NSW and Queensland.
  • At the moment of the Internet and national broadband, what purpose does that border serve to education, medical services, technological changes, communication?
  • At the moment the world is facing rising sea levels, what role does that border play?

If you take a look at the BloggerMe map, every issue in the papers can be dealt with by reference to the "whole nation" or by reference to a "State" or a "Super-State" (a Super-State is a grouping of States around a common issue).

Here are some national issues and debates:

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Sat, 02/03/2013 - 3:28pm

Queensland Govt supports landowners and will not allow gas miners to forcefully enter property:

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Wed, 20/02/2013 - 10:26am

Some useful CSIRO research on the environmental impacts of (published in November).

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Mon, 18/02/2013 - 1:54pm

Great piece by Greg Dickson on Expert Panel's Aboriginal languages recommendation; finally engagement w Panel's recs

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Mon, 18/02/2013 - 1:43pm

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Sun, 17/02/2013 - 2:00pm

CANBERRA TIMES February 14, 2013: Leaked draft policy: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is reportedly considering building as many as 100 dams across the country as part of a plan to prevent floods, fuel power stations and irrigate food bowls.

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BRISBANE TIMES: February 14, 2013: Environment Minister Tony Burke has slammed the Coalition's leaked draft dams policy as ''incoherent'' and ''completely wild''.
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/political-news/abbotts-dam-plan-completely-wild-20130214-2ee3u.html#ixzz2L7bcwy9B

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Sat, 09/02/2013 - 4:25am

RT : Australia's CSG industry — no longer such a gas

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Tue, 29/01/2013 - 2:19am

Australia: Looking Ahead, What Will Our Grandchildren Say?

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Tue, 29/01/2013 - 1:49am

The Life and Times of Nova Peris

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Fri, 25/01/2013 - 7:57pm

Les Malezer: We believe that the recommendations from the expert panel are the result of intensive consultations.

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Fri, 25/01/2013 - 12:58am

Aus to worsen CO2 emissions: THE forecast expansion of Australian coal mining and exports could be the world's s...

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Fri, 25/01/2013 - 12:29am

Expanding Australian coal exports will play a huge role in future change, reports.

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Fri, 25/01/2013 - 12:15am

With all the fires raging across Australia, plus the record high temps, are any politicians feeling the heat on ?

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Thu, 24/01/2013 - 11:53pm

The Climate Change Endgame

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Thu, 24/01/2013 - 11:01pm

Former NT Chief Minister "Hendo" likes Peris

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Thu, 24/01/2013 - 10:51pm

More gas, not more regulation: OPINION: THAT demand for natural gas is increasing – and that the price for natur...

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Thu, 24/01/2013 - 10:11pm

Gracious Warren Mundine says Labor has righted a wrong by putting up Nova Peris for the Senate

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Fri, 18/01/2013 - 7:47pm


Anne Twomey: Act of Recognition seems to exclude review of anti-racial discrimination provision

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Thu, 17/01/2013 - 3:57am


RT : - farming will look different in a warmer future. Pt 2/5 in 's Climate Change srs

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Thu, 17/01/2013 - 3:35am


Up to 65% of the worst effects of change can still be reduced with prompt emissions cuts, new study says.

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Sat, 12/01/2013 - 11:16pm


In defence of forgery - why eco-warrior Jonathan Moylan should be praised not imprisoned

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Sat, 12/01/2013 - 4:47pm


Geoffrey Robertson QC Indigenous Aussies 'should vote for their own senators'

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Sat, 12/01/2013 - 4:18pm


Red alert for freak weather: IT IS the heatwave that laps east and west and seems hard to dislodge.

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Sat, 12/01/2013 - 4:01pm


Thought-provoking opinion piece by Bob Brown, about Whitehaven , and coal.

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Fri, 11/01/2013 - 11:35pm


ANZ imposter takes up new climate tactic

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Fri, 11/01/2013 - 10:26pm


Blog: How smoke from bushfires poses a health hazard for all of us

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Fri, 11/01/2013 - 4:49am


Heatwave: Australia's new weather demands a new politics | George Monbiot

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Fri, 11/01/2013 - 4:39am


Conditions ease but fire threat far from over: Cooler weather has been a blessing for the thousands batt...

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Fri, 11/01/2013 - 4:07am


The Bureau of Meteorology has removed the new "deep purple" heat range from its latest weather charts after one day.

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Fri, 11/01/2013 - 4:05am


2012: Australia’s year of weather contrasts

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Fri, 11/01/2013 - 3:55am


Heatwaves here to stay: THE heatwave that has scorched the nation since Christmas is a taste of things to come, ...

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 3:59am


A new national temperature record was set on Monday - an AVERAGE maximum of 40.33 degrees across the continent.

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 3:58am


Deep purple: new colour code introduced to Australia's temperature records to signify 54 degrees Celcius.

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 3:35am


Sovereign Union spokesperson Michael Anderson, slams Act of Recognition as an absolute insult to First Nations Peoples.

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 3:33am


CO2 not so simple, says CSIRO: MEDIA mogul Rupert Murdoch was right to say the world's forests are growing faste...

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 3:29am


Money for bushfire research is running out - co-operative research centre funding ends in June.

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 3:11am


Here is the Bureau of Meteorology's special statement on the Australian heatwave.

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 3:09am


Six of the first seven days in 2013 have been among Australia's top 20 hottest days this century.

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Thu, 10/01/2013 - 2:27am


Tomorrow's page one story in the Herald: vast "heat dome" advancing across eastern Australia, bringing fires with it.

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Fri, 04/01/2013 - 6:44pm


Highly recommend ‘Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Aboriginal People, the “Resource Curse” and Australia’s Mining Boom’

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Sat, 29/12/2012 - 9:12am


Peak farmland reached?: FAR from needing more farmland over coming decades, we will need less, an optimistic new...

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Sat, 29/12/2012 - 8:58am


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Sat, 29/12/2012 - 6:51am


UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had projected a sea level rise of 18 to 59 centimetres worldwide by 2100

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Sun, 23/12/2012 - 3:49am


Coal miners released a last-minute lobbying effort before the change authority released its renewable report.

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Sun, 23/12/2012 - 3:48am


Australia's 2020 renewable energy target should be retained, change authority says. SMH report here:

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Sun, 23/12/2012 - 12:20am


2012 in review: Environment

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Sat, 22/12/2012 - 9:26pm


Maloney's barrister Chris Ronalds SC:targeted laws that criminalise conduct not criminalised in non-Indig communities

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Tue, 18/12/2012 - 10:41am


: NITV now broadcasting free-to-air on SBS

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Tue, 18/12/2012 - 10:34am


Govt gives solar energy massive funding boost

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