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Canberra, Mr Garrett said the Rudd Government's will connect Australia's most vulnerable households with practical and personal advice and support. "On average, low-income earners spend a higher proportion of their weekly household budget on energy and water, making these Australians...

The Federal Government may have added billions of dollars in compensation under its revised emissions trading legislation, but Australia's biggest carbon polluters still do not like the sweetened deal on offer. Despite an extra $3 billion for power generators, one...

A cool change for fire ravaged NSW 23/11/2009 10:00:01 A cool change has swept into northern New South Wales this morning, bringing relief for firefighters. More than 100 fires have been burning in the state over the last week and...

Leader Malcolm Turnbull has been warned to stop championing an emissions trading scheme to avoid a damaging rift in the Liberal Party. Senior MPs say the party must unite and can do so only if support for the scheme is...

S transition to greener energy supplies has been bolstered by the opening of a ''zero emission'' hydro power plant in the state's north-eastern high country. The AGL station at Bogong will have 140 megawatts capacity, enough to power about 120,000...

A study published in the journal Science shows that woolly mammoths started to die out nearly 2,000 years before complex spears were invented. Fifteen-thousand years ago, large mammals dominated the North American landscape...The director of the University of Adelaide's Research...

Firefighters battled dozens of bushfires in South Australia Friday as record-breaking temperatures and lightning storms continued, officials say. Emergency crews fought scores of fires in the populous state of New South Wales, some on the outskirts of Sydney, Australian Broadcasting...

Federal Government has made to the Opposition to gain its support. Government sources said it was prepared to exclude agriculture from the emissions trading scheme indefinitely and allow farmers to generate carbon credits as a sign of good faith to...