Coalition carbon price cut immoral: Combet
Source: The Courier-Mail
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 20:00:13 -0700 | green-news
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet on Friday said plans by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to scrap the scheme would leave a $20.7 billion hole in the forward estimates. "He's given us no indication at all how he would achieve those...
Study pegs number of original Australians
Source: The Courier-Mail
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-04-23 17:39:33 -0700 | green-news
Ice Age before recovering to a peak of about 1.2 million people around five centuries ago, a study says. Estimating the early population of Australia is a source of debate in anthropology, partly because it touches on how European colonisation...
Australia gives environmental OK to uranium mine
Source: China Post
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-04-02 13:36:53 -0700 | green-news
Australia on Tuesday gave environmental approval for a new uranium mine in its resource-rich west, with 36 conditions to guard against negative impacts from radiation and other factors. Environment Minister Tony Burke said he was giving the go-ahead for Toro...
What Happened to All the Birds in the Most Recently Colonized Regions of Earth?
Source: io9
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-03-25 16:55:52 -0700 | green-news
The numerous islands scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean comprise the last habitable region of Earth that humans colonized. Beginning about 3500 years ago, people settled the eastern islands, such as the Samoan islands, Fiji and the Marianas...These islands once held...
Plan to open up Cape York 'grabbing at the sky'
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-03-20 08:23:33 -0700 | green-news
Former Cape York Land Council chairman Michael Ross warns that most of Cape York isn't suitable for farming. They're really grabbing at the sky, aren't they?'' he told AAP...The minute you clear land you've got all sorts of problems with...
Earthquakes turn water into gold, says study
Source: Indian Express
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-03-18 07:26:59 -0700 | green-news
Earthquakes cause water in faults to vaporise, depositing gold in the Earth's crust, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between the precious metal and quartz seen...
No One Is the Best in the Field Other Than This Company in Festival Party Ideas
Posted by: Sam Roj
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-01-29 00:59:18 -0800 | green-news
There are a lot of people who are interested in party ideas and there are a lot of factors that has to be considered while organizing these types of festival parties. Money is not at all a very important factor...
Ferguson vows to protect miners against ''guerilla'' conservationists
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2012-05-28 07:51:12 -0700 | political-news
Stepping up his long-running attacks on green groups, Mr Ferguson told a conference yesterday in Queensland, where the new Campbell Newman state government has flagged faster approvals for major mining projects, that economic opportunities were being imperiled by environmental campaigns....
Govt to begin overseas carbon market talks
Source: The Age
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2011-12-12 11:28:58 -0800 | political-news
Story continues below Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said he would start talks with other countries at the UN climate convention in South Africa on November 28 to link the scheme to other carbon markets. "With all of the work...
Firefighters battle large industrial fire
Source: The Age
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2011-11-18 12:30:51 -0800 | travel-news
They are still working to bring the fire under control in a building in Dacre Street, Mitchell after being called late on Thursday night, ACT authorities say. The suburb of Mitchell have been evacuated over concerns about toxins in the...
Soldier's funeral to be held in Queensland
Source: The Age
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2011-11-05 12:44:28 -0700 | business-news
Family members have requested a private commemoration, releasing few details and asking the media to respect their privacy. Unlike other funerals of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, neither Prime Minister Julia Gillard nor Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will be attending.
Greens can't pick and choose science:Bligh
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2011-10-21 10:30:50 -0700 | political-news
Greens Leader Bob Brown had questioned this week whether coal seam gas would reduce global emissions. "There is absolutely no doubt that if Australia wants a cleaner energy future, then gas has to be a part of that and it...
Conviction and resolve needed: Treasurer
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2011-10-16 08:19:32 -0700 | business-news
Mr Swan on Tuesday met with World Bank President Robert Zoellick in Canberra, ahead of a speech by the treasurer to parliament on the state of the economy. The treasurer said the World Bank and G20 group of nations had...
Crazy or clever? Different tacks on carbon
Source: The Australian
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2011-09-26 19:51:56 -0700 | business-news
But in Canberra, a current national leader, Czech President Vaclav Klaus, rejected the concept of climate change as a "mass delusion" and accused some of its supporters of being totalitarian. Mr Blair, standing alongside Prime Minister Julia Gillard, said this...
Primed for carbon combat
Source: The Age
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2012-11-02 06:32:52 -0700 | political-news
Because, after more than four months of bleeding in the face of Tony Abbott's unrelenting assault, they now have something besides slogans to sell. ''I've got to admit that it's been pretty hard work all right,'' a relaxed Combet tells...
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