Calendar of Events

NO DAM ON FRANKLIN RIVER – 25^TH ANNIVERSARY

Come to the Federation Ballroom in Hobart on Tuesday 1 st July 2008 and join Tasmanian Senator Bob Brown, Professor David Bellamy, former PM Bob Hawke, musician Shane Howard and many more. Listen to the stories, see the pictures, hear the music, catch up with old friends over a drink a bite to eat and pay homage to a magnificent river saved.

Tables of 10 and 12 available

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PENGUIN AUSTRALIA INVITES YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF THE RIVER RUNS FREE – BY GEOFF LAW.

With introduction at launch by Peter Cundell. Includes slide-show.

Wednesday 2 July 08, at 6.30 for 7.30pm, at Launceston Tram Shed Auditorium, 4 Invermay Rd, Inveresk.

RSVP (by 27Jun08 [Better to RSVP later than never]) to Petrach’s Bookshop at 63318088.

Exploring and Defending Tasmania’s Wilderness : Geoff Law writes powerfully about the connection between humans and landscape, the source of inspiration for his life’s work. He has been working on campaigns to save Tasmania’s wilderness and forests for over 25 years. He has worked for the Australian Conservation Foundation, Wilderness Society and Senator Bob Brown.

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The Tasmanian National Parks Association inc. (with T.C. T. inc.)

invites you to a slide night:

 Dr Kevin Doran

will present

“Fun in the snow in Tasmania”

and 

“Let’s hit the high spots: Tasmanian Mountains”

Thursday 3rd July

7 pm

Stanley Burbury Lecture Theatre

(University of Tasmania)

                        $10 (waged) /$8 (unwaged)

Stay for supper

Dr Kevin Doran is a medical practitioner who has been pointing his camera at Tasmania’s mountains for 40 years.  He has climbed Federation Peak a remarkable 25 times and is offering 3 copies of his book “Federation: Australia's Adventure Peak.” as door prizes

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GATHERGREENS

Friday 4 July 2008, 7.00pm at 12 Danbury Drive Riverside [Map at http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ]

All welcome. BYO everything.

Tom Millen will do a show-and-tell about his recent trip to the Global Greens Conference in Sao Paolo; Farewell to Christine Kershaw; The new popcorn machine will be on display! Anything else you may wish to celebrate!

For car pooling offers and requests ring Rebecca on 6331 6728

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BIOLOGICAL SOIL SYMPOSIUM

Wed 9 and Thurs 10 JULY 2008, Tramshed Function Centre, Inveresk, Launceston TAS:
Australian Soil Additives & Products (ASAP) is proud to present a Biological Soil Symposium this Winter in Launceston. What is biological farming?

Biological farming is a chemical free method of farming that focuses on improving the microbiology as a way of increasing plant growth and produce yield. 

This symposium will feature Dr Elaine Ingham talking about transition to biological decision-making, brewing compost tea, making BioActive compost and other biological farming principles. It's under $500 for the 2 days. It applies to growers, graziers, land-carers, and industry.

DAY 1: The Soil Foodweb, how it breeds & feeds, and what difference it makes to look after it on your property
DAY 2: Compost Tea and true diversity Compost.

Dr Ingham will present the 30 years of research and scientific approach to soil ecology. She is a gifted presenter and she will discuss the extraordinary interaction of the biodiversity in the soil as the key to truly biological, profitable and ecologically sound soil health. 

More at http://info.asapsupplier.com

National Press Club Address by Senator Bob Brown

Senator Bob Brown will be speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday July 9th at 12:30.

Theme will be: The Australian Greens' role in the balance of power in the Senate from July 1st.

People can tune in on their television sets to watch it live on ABC1

Tickets are $55 for members and $70 for guests.

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Next Denison Greens Branch Meeting

 Thursday, 10^th July at The Green Shop, 83 Harrington Street Hobart.

Commencing 6pm sharp & finishing no later than 8pm.

 Branch meetings are held on the second Thursday of every month. 

 Reports from Branch Executive members will be tabled.  Any items for discussion will be on the agenda as normal. 

 If you have any proposals  for the agenda, it is essential that they be forwarded to the secretary rscott1@vtown.com.au by Sunday 6^th July, so that an Agenda can be sent to those interested in advance of the meeting.  Please email the secretary if you would like the Agenda before the meeting.

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Greens' Senator Christine Milne will feature on the ABC's  Q & A program next Thursday night, 10 July at 9.30pm. The focus will be the dynamic new post-1 July Senate, with the Greens holding Balance of Power along with two independents. 

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s2293601.htm
From the ABC's Q&A website ...
Welcome the Senate
Thursday, 10 July
With Green’s Senator Christine Milne, the Labor Party’s Stephen Conroy and Liberal Party Senator Helen Coonan, joining Q&A next week, we only have one thing to say…welcome the Senate. Debating alongside them will be Sydney based author, essayist and playwright Linda Jaivin and, columnist and Editor of the Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt.

You don't have to be a bystander with this show.  To have your say, lodge a question at:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/have-your-say.htm

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Thursday 10^th July- AGS Biotechnology and Ethics Hypothetical and Forum

Sponsored by: Australian Government Solicitor (AGS)

Hosted by: Damien Carrick (ABC)

Featuring:

·         Professor Don Chalmers (Dean of the Utas Law Faculty)

·         Professor Simon Foote (Director of the Menzies Research Institute)

·         Justice Peter Heerey (Justice of the Australian Federal Court)

·         Associate Professor Nicholas Tonti- Filippini (Associate-Professor at the John-Paul II Institute and noted bio-ethicist.

·         Dr Leila Toiviainen (member of the Australian Bioethics Association and teacher of bio-ethics)

 Time: 5.30-7.30pm

Venue: UTAS Stanley Burbury Lecture Theatre

 Please join us after the forum for Wine and Cheese in the UCENT Foyer.

 PUBLIC EVENT- ALL INVITED

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Wielangta update

Guess what -- Forestry Tasmania have listed the famous Wielangta coupe 19D for logging.  The Forest Practices Plan is unchanged from three years ago, despite parrot expert Peter Brown describing the forest as some of  ‘the finest Swift Parrot breeding habitat’ he had ever seen and despite the mass of new information unearthed by the trial and since.  Forestry seem determined to bear out Justice Marshall’s conclusion that they are unlikely to take the ‘far more protective stance’ required to protect the beetle, eagle and parrot.

With the High Court leaving the way open for logging, the Wielangta campaign is turning to other avenues.  Wielangta residents are organising a briefing on the case and a forest picnic has been arranged.  And a Senate inquiry into Australia’s environmental laws has been set up, giving everyone an opportunity to have a say about the catastrophic decline of endangered species and the impact of climate change on top of other threats.  The terms of reference include the ‘effectiveness’! of Regional Forest Agreements in protecting biodiversity.  Public submissions are invited by 5 September.

For Wielangta to stay protected either Tasmania’s Premier Bartlett or Prime Minister Rudd will have to intervene.  They can re-write the Tasmania RFA overnight, reversing the Howard-Lennon pact to log Wielangta, or the Commonwealth could give notice to terminate the RFA altogether.  Please write and urge them to act.  The High Court won’t rescue the beetle, the eagle and the parrot but our campaign will!

Wielangta briefing. 6 pm Friday 11 July 2008.  Waterside Pavilion, Mawson Place, Hobart
Speakers:  Senator Bob Brown, Roland Browne (Wielangta case solicitor), Margaret Blakers.

Wielangta picnic.  11 am Saturday 19 July 2008.  BYO picnic!  Walking from coupe 17E to 19D if we can get the key;  otherwise at the gate on the Wielangta road.  More details from Mel Hills mel.hills@active8.net.au.

Senate inquiry into the operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999;  Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee.  Submissions due 5 September 2008.  http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/eca_ctte/epbc_act/tor.htm

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The Tasmanian Greens Fundraising and Events Committee warmly invites all members to attend a…

 DELECTABLE MID-WINTER DINNER IN HOBART

 Dear friends –the Australian Greens National Council Meeting will be held in Hobart on the 12 and 13 July.  In conjunction with this important meeting, the Tasmanian Greens will be hosting a mid winter dinner right in the middle of Hobart.  We warmly extend an invitation to all members to attend this event.  Do come along!  It will be a wonderful opportunity to get to know members, office bearers, delegates and senators from all around the country.

 Cost: $25.00 for three exotic courses, including hearty soups, a fabulous range of curries, vegan, vegetarian and meat lovers delights, and delectable desserts.  Drinks: cash bar operating on night (sorry – no BYO).

 Date: Saturday July 12, 7.00pm for 7.30pm

 Guest Speaker : Ms Peg Putt MP, former Parliamentary Leader of the Tasmanian Greens.  Peg has been in the Tasmanian State Parliament for 15 years, and for ten of those years she has been leader of the Tasmanian Greens.

 Musicians: Czardas, Gypsy and Eastern European Music Specialists

 Address: 108 Bathurst Street, Hobart, at the Fifty and Better Centre -  in between the State Library and the Play House Theatre.

 RSVP: Karen Brown, networker@tas.greens.org.au mobile 0417 555 309, work 62369334 by Monday July 7.

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NEXT BASS GREENS BRANCH MEETING: 3^rd Tuesday of month

15 July 08, 5.30-7.30pm, at the Launceston Environment Centre, 72 Tamar St, Launceston.

Supporters welcome to attend the Branch Meeting. Contact Secretary at bass@tas.greens.org.au.

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Environmental Film Festival -  A fundraiser for Green Left Weekly

 July 18 -20

225 Murray St, Hobart 6234 6397

$8 per film ($5 conc.)

Festival pass $15 conc/$20 waged/$30 Solidarity

 Friday: 7pm: The 11th Hour (2007, 95 mins) - Drought. Famine. Severe flooding. Hurricanes. Acid rain.  The highest average temperatures in history. In the history of the planet, humanity's time on earth has been short--but powerful.  Human development has revolutionized industry, science, nutrition and medicine.  But it has also effected unprecedented changes in the delicate balance that makes life on earth possible.  Essential viewing, more relentless than An Inconvenient Truth.

Saturday: 5pm: The Lorax (bring the kids) (1972, 52 mins) - The classic Doctor Suess tale of a young boy meets a ruined industrialist in a treeless wasteland and hears his tale of what has happened to him.  His tragic story is about how he began a thriving business with a useless fashion product derived from the trees of a forest.  As his business booms, the forest and its inhabitants suffer as he wantonly clearcuts without regard to the warnings of a wise old creature called the Lorax about the dire consequences of his greed.

5.55: Short film

6pm Dinner – Cheap Yummy Meal Provided

7pm: The Carbon Connection -  Two communities affected by one new global market – the trade in carbon dioxide. In Scotland a town has been polluted by oil and chemical companies since the 1940s.  In Brazil local people's water and land is being swallowed up by destructive monoculture eucalyptus tree plantations. Both communities now share a new threat.  The Carbon Connection follows the story of two groups of people from each community who learned to use video cameras and made their own films about living with the impacts of the carbon market.

Sunday: 4pm: A Hard Rain (2007, 77 mins) - Twice Academy Award nominee and five time AFI winner David Bradbury explores the `other side' of the nuclear debate.  Traversing five countries- China , France , UK , Japan and Australia , A Hard Rain exposes the hidden agendas behind the latest push for Australia to go nuclear and presents a compelling argument against allowing this to happen. With interviews from some of the world's top scientists and environmentalists, including Dr Rosalie Bertell (Canada ), Dr

Chris Busby (UK), Dr Mark Diesendorf, Prof. Ian Lowe & Dr Gavin Mudd (Aust), A Hard Rain provides the information you need to know to decide if Australia should head down the nuclear path.

5.30pm: The One tree project (2004, 20 mins) - Is woodchipping a waste of a precious resource?  See what can be created using just one tree.  A documentary of the journey of a tree from our southern forest through the hands of many creative people.

6:30: Dinner – Cheap Yucky Meal Provided

7pm: Exxon Mobil Climate Change (2007, 65 mins) - This film shows the influence that the largest company in the world has on governments, the media and citizens and what can be done about global warming. While the Earth's climate is pushed further out of balance by increasing use of fossil fuels, ExxonMobil continues to assert undue influence around the world— making record profits while ignoring climate science for which there has been overwhelming consensus for over ten years

Wielangta update

Guess what -- Forestry Tasmania have listed the famous Wielangta coupe 19D for logging.  The Forest Practices Plan is unchanged from three years ago, despite parrot expert Peter Brown describing the forest as some of  ‘the finest Swift Parrot breeding habitat’ he had ever seen and despite the mass of new information unearthed by the trial and since.  Forestry seem determined to bear out Justice Marshall’s conclusion that they are unlikely to take the ‘far more protective stance’ required to protect the beetle, eagle and parrot.

With the High Court leaving the way open for logging, the Wielangta campaign is turning to other avenues.  Wielangta residents are organising a briefing on the case and a forest picnic has been arranged.  And a Senate inquiry into Australia’s environmental laws has been set up, giving everyone an opportunity to have a say about the catastrophic decline of endangered species and the impact of climate change on top of other threats.  The terms of reference include the ‘effectiveness’! of Regional Forest Agreements in protecting biodiversity.  Public submissions are invited by 5 September.

For Wielangta to stay protected either Tasmania’s Premier Bartlett or Prime Minister Rudd will have to intervene.  They can re-write the Tasmania RFA overnight, reversing the Howard-Lennon pact to log Wielangta, or the Commonwealth could give notice to terminate the RFA altogether.  Please write and urge them to act.  The High Court won’t rescue the beetle, the eagle and the parrot but our campaign will!

Wielangta briefing. 6 pm Friday 11 July 2008.  Waterside Pavilion, Mawson Place, Hobart
Speakers:  Senator Bob Brown, Roland Browne (Wielangta case solicitor), Margaret Blakers.

Wielangta picnic.  11 am Saturday 19 July 2008.  BYO picnic!  Walking from coupe 17E to 19D if we can get the key;  otherwise at the gate on the Wielangta road.  More details from Mel Hills mel.hills@active8.net.au.

Senate inquiry into the operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999;  Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee.  Submissions due 5 September 2008.  http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/eca_ctte/epbc_act/tor.htm

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THE RIVER RUNS FREE - IMPROMPTU FRANKLIN BLOCKADE REMINISCENCE IN LAUNCESTON

Saturday 19 July, 6:00 pm, at Tineke Morrison’s place, 2 Marlou Court [2km up Ecclestone Road turn left into Rowsphorn Rd. and left into Marlou Crt, second right No 2 (not 2A)]

Please bring food, drink and memorabilia! For more details Phone Tineke on 63272291 or e-mail Helen at htait@bigpond.net.au

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The next Eastern Shore Greens meeting is scheduled for Sunday 20 July at Gilly Joiner’s home at 30 Lewis Avenue, Seven Mile Beach.

The meeting will start at 2:30pm and finish around 5pm.

For more information please phone Max Bahrfeldt on 6243 6195.

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POETRY AT THE CENTENNIAL HOTEL

Hello Poetry Lovers of Lonnie: Our next Launceston Poetry Night will be on the THIRD Monday in July (21 July), 6.00-9.00pm, at the Centennial Hotel, Cnr Bathurst & Balfour Sts Launceston. T: 63314957

Also on this night: launch of the next issue of "The Famous Reporter". Come and meet the editor Ralph Wessman, and maybe a poet or two he has lined up for us...

NEW POETS WANTED!

Please try to come if you are interested in poetry.  Our numbers have shrunk and we'd like to show the new venue, the Centennial, that there actually are lots of poets and poetry lovers in Launceston. 

You get to read your poems over the microphone, or to be part of our appreciative audience.

Competition this time: An erotic poem - So get writing now to write your winning poem!

Shake off the winter cold and come and join us....

Marilyn Ph. 0417 145 537 or 63301768 for any queries

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The next Think&Drink will be held on Thursday 24^th July – please note change of date

It will probably still be at the Republic in North Hobart, at the usual time – 6-7.30pm, but see next week’s newsletter for confirmation.

The topic will be on issues related to Mt. Wellington – cable car, planning etc.

Michael Easton from the Wellington Park Management Trust will give us a brief background presentation on the role of the Trust and related issues. 

Please make an effort to attend and to have input to this process, as the Mountain is an iconic aspect of Hobart which we need to get right.

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ON NATIONAL TREE DAY (26 JULY 2008)

Lesley Nicklason will be taking a walk on the Star of Peace - a magnificent rainforest clad "hill" (not quite a mountain!) which is completely unprotected. The Star of Peace is between Weldborough and Pyengana - from my home I am watching it disappear! The Weldborough side is intact and that's where we will be walking. We will be meeting at the junction of Mt. Paris Dam and Mutual Roads - from Launceston way, turn onto Mt.Paris Dam Road opposite the Branxholm cemetery (just on the Derby side of Branxholm) and travel 17 km. From St. Helens turn onto Mt. Paris Dam Road opposite the Weldborough Pub and travel 4km (turn left at the T junction about 500 metres from the pub) We'll meet at 10.30am. The walk grade is medium to hard - no track and some obstacles part of the way.  Walking time is about 4.5 hours.  Bring lunch, drinks, warm clothes and wear sturdy boots.  Please contact me on 63736195 for more details or email at lesley.nicklason@bigpond.com

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BUSH DANCE

26 July 2008 6:30 0nwards, at Max Fry Hall, Gorge Rd.

Cost: $10 per adult. Children free.

Band: Paddy Whack

To Bring: Plate of food for supper. Non alcoholic refreshments provided.

Why: To shake the booty out of winter. Proceeds go to Trevallyn Primary School

Contact: Michelle Woods at 63312441 or at mcwoods1995@bigpond.com

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Testimonial Luncheon For Peg Putt

The Tasmanian Greens warmly invite you to celebrate the achievements of Peg Putt’s spectacular political career.

When:
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 12.30 pm 

Where:
Hobart Function and Conference Centre, 1 Elizabeth Street Pier, Hobart

$50.00 per person
$45.00 concession
Cash Bar

RSVP by Thursday, 24 July to Karen Brown, (03) 6236 9334, 0417 555 309, networker@tas.greens.org.au

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