It was an unprecedented election campaign in Australia. Every party was forced to take a position on climate change. Labor got up and the climate change sceptics got the boot.
The Japanese whaling fleet is delaying its departure to the Southern Ocean to avoid political embarrassment while the Japanese Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda, and US President George W Bush meet today in Washington DC.
Early this morning 15 Greenpeace activists occupied and took peaceful direct action to shut down a coal-fired power plant on the NSW Central Coast. The occupation was to protest against John Howard and Kevin Rudd's dismal climate change policies, which will not stop increasing greenhouse emissions.
With a banner reading 'Palm Oil Kills Forests and Climate' our flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, has anchored next to a palm oil tanker blocking it in port in Indonesia. Our ship is stationed close enough to the tanker that the tug boats can't get it out of dock.
