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Swan calls for budget submissions PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 16 December 2007

New Treasurer Calls for Community Input into Budget

Today I call on families, individuals, business and community groups to submit their ideas for the Government’s first Budget, as we go about meeting the big economic challenges Australia faces.

These challenges include fighting inflation, tackling climate change and securing water, making our workforce the most highly skilled in the world, lifting workforce participation and productivity in the face of an ageing population, delivering modern infrastructure and a world-class broadband network, and ending the blame game between federal and state governments.

They are challenges that can only be met by focussing squarely on the future, and investing in the productive capacity of the economy – that’s our priority.

Community views are critical considerations for the Government when forming its policies.

That is why I am seeking public submissions regarding priorities for the 2008-09 Budget.

In order to allow views to feed into the Budget process, I ask that interested parties lodge submissions as soon as possible, and before Friday, 18 January 2008.

Lengthier submissions should ideally include an executive summary of no more than two pages, and be accompanied by an electronic version, either on disk or CD, or emailed in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format.

Submissions should be forwarded to the address below:

 
"Peak Oil" and now "Peak Exports" PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 19 November 2007
Peak Exports
An article in the New York Times 9th December 2007 raises the increasing domestic use in oil producing countries, which is reducing their exports.   Jeff Rubin, of the Canadian Imperial Banking Corporation is quoted.  His presentation at ASPO-VI in Ireland has a lot of information
The NYT article and a couple of slides from Jeff Rubin and Rembrandt Koppelaar are available here.  Peak Exports will be what matters to Australia, and it may be coming very soon.

Wall Street Journal article  Oil Officials See Limit Looming on Production  A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. Some predict that, despite the world's fast-growing thirst for oil, producers could hit that ceiling as soon as 2012....

19th International Geophysical Conference, Perth
WA Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley, opened the conference on Monday, 19 November.  
Industry experts Mr Bruce Robinson, convenor of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas   ASPO-Australia) and Saudi Aramco VP Exploration,  Mr Abdulla Al Naim, discussed the issues surrounding ‘Peak Oil’, and planning for our oil dependent society dealing with declining oil production.
Bruce's summary presentation is "The Approach of Peak Oil" and a short briefing note is available
 
New Australia/NZ section for The Oil Drum PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 November 2007
The Oil Drum is one of the top web sites for peak oil news and analysis. As well as the main Oil Drum page there are regional sections for Europe, Canada and New York. These have just been joined by a new Australia/New Zealand section edited by Big Gav and our own Phil Hart. Check it out for peak oil news and views from down under.
 
Public transport totally inadequate for oil shocks PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
ASPO presentation and news release from the National Bus Industry Confederation Conference in Fremantle,
30th October 2007

Australia's public transport is completely inadequate to cope with future oil shocks, a national bus industry conference was told. 
Bruce Robinson, Convenor of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil, warned of looming oil shortages when world oil production starts to decline.  A revolution or another war in the Middle East could easily create another sudden oil crisis which would make the 1973 and 1979 oil shocks look minor. 

Australian transport authorities have no serious planning in place to handle a major fuel shortage.  Existing petrol rationing plans (eg. odds and evens number plate days) fail to consider the lack of spare public transport capacity.
 
If petrol has to be rationed in a future oil shock, then it will be essential to ration access to public transport as well.  No Australian city has anywhere near enough public transport capacity to handle even a quarter of existing car travellers if they need to use buses and trains instead.
Read more...
 
Plug-in Australia advocates electric powered vehicles PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 21 September 2007
Plug-in Australia is a new Australian group advocating a switch to electric powered transport.

Plug-in Australia’s purpose is to advocate the use of plug-in cars, trucks and other vehicles powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity to reduce Australia’s increasing dependence on imported oil and improve the global environment.
 
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