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Abbott can win election, says Howard
Sydney :: Australia | about 3 hours ago
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Former prime minister John Howard says new Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott can lead the Coalition to victory at the next federal election. In a shock result this morning, Mr Abbott wrestled the leadership from Malcolm Turnbull by just one vote and promptly...
Tags: Mr Abbott, Liberal Party, Tony Abbott, Coalition, Senate, Malcolm Turnbull, climate change, Australia, Sydney, Politics, Environment, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Liberal Party of Australia, Global warming, Turnbull, Climate change denial, Nick Xenophon, Emissions trading, Carbon finance, Peter Costello, Shadow Cabinet (Australia) December 2007 to September, Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, Bob Brown, John Howard, Air pollution, Australian Greens, Members of the Australian Senate, WorkChoices, Shadow Cabinet of Australia, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Senate passes ETS ammendments
Brisbane :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The Upper House is currently considering a series of 12 amendments from the Australian Greens which are aimed at ensuring permits for emitting carbon dioxide are auctioned rather than handed out free. Greens senator Christine Milne said this was a critical...
Tags: Senate, senator passed, Australia, Brisbane, Environment, Greenwashing, Australian Senate, Australian Greens, Emissions trading, Politics, Carbon finance, Westminster system, United States Senate, Sustainability
Big loopholes in donations ban, say Greens
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Developers would also be free to use other state divisions or branches of a political party as vehicles for transferring donations to NSW parties. Legislation outlawing developer donations will be debated in the upper house today, and the Greens MP Lee...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Politics, Urban Taskforce Australia, Australian Greens, Social Issues, Business Finance, Greens New South Wales, Political donations in Australia
NSW Greens plot political merry-go-round
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Ms Rhiannon will step down from the Upper House when the federal election is called in order to stand for the Senate. Ms Faehrmann, currently the executive director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and a board member of online advocacy organisation...
Tags: Ms Faehrmann, Australia, Melbourne, Australian Greens, Politics, Green political parties, Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, Lee Rhiannon, Chris Harris, The Greens ￢ﾀﾓ The Green Alternative, John Kaye, European Green Party, Rhiannon, Greens New South Wales
Transport debate should have sunk them
Melbourne :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility THE Brumby Government's alleged popularity is the last thing I expected to read of (''Brumby soaring high: poll'', 22/11). As Tony Morton wrote in January: ''The next election will be fought on the issue of public transport.'' Privatisation is a shambles,...
Tags: Australian Youth Climate Coalition, public transport, Victorian State Parliament, Kennett Liberals, Football Federation Australia, Aurelio Vidmar, Australian Education Union, Australia, Melbourne, Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Victoria, John Brumby, Australian Greens, Visy Industries, Ted Baillieu, Premiers of the Australian states
Push for tighter food labelling
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility Senator Nick Xenophon is pushing wants laws to ensure "Made in Australia" means what it says, allowing shoppers to support local producers. His Private Member's Bill, jointly sponsored by Greens' Senator Bob Brown and Nationals' Senator Barnaby Joyce,...
Tags: Australian, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Riverland, Nick Xenophon, Emissions trading, Carbon finance, Bob Brown, Australian wine, Air pollution, Australian Greens, Australian wines, Green political parties, Family First Party, Green politics
The heat is on in Bradfield
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Slung over the north shore's rail line from Chatswood to North Turramurra, Bradfield is true, leafy conservative heartland. Since it was proclaimed in 1949 Bradfield has never been out of Liberal Party hands. Its outgoing member, the former defence minister...
Tags: Bradfield, Greens, climate change, Liberal Party, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Bradfield by-election, Australian Greens, Politics, Green political parties, Brendan Nelson, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Paul Fletcher
ETS vote looks to be dead in the water
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
Credibility The Rudd Government's emissions trading legislation is unlikely to pass the upper house before today's deadline amid accusations of filibustering on the part of Opposition and crossbench senators. Debate has resumed on the legislation but the Senate's...
Tags: greens senator, Penny Wong, Greens, Senate, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Australian Senate, Nick Xenophon, Australian Greens, Christine Milne, Politics, Members of the Australian Senate, Rudd Government, Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, Filibuster
The taxi lights flicked - and then she was free
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 days ago
Credibility Amanda Lindhout's 15 months of captivity ended with the flick of car lights on a road south of Mogadishu and the transfer of more than half a million dollars. Somalia's prime minister and senior government officials revealed details to the Star of the...
Tags: Nigel Brennan, Somalia, Amanda Lindhout, Australian Greens, Mr Brennan, Dick Smith, Kenya, Mogadishu, Foreign hostages in Somalia, Politics, Ransom, Somali people, War Conflict, Nairobi, Warlordism, Hostage taking, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Human spaceflight, Vaughan Smith, Somali language, Space Shuttle, Abdullahi, Freelancer, Space Shuttle program, spaceflight, Frontline Television News, Insurance, timeline of the War in Somalia, STS-129, Nigel, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
Australian Liberal Party Agrees to Climate Change Bill
Earlier today the Australian Libery Party agreed to the Rudd Labor Government's Climate Change Bill (officially know as the Climate Pollution Reduction Scheme, or CPRS) after several weeks of intense negotiation & concessions on both sides. Whilst...
Tags: climate change, pollution, green industry, politics, copenhagen, global warming, canberra, australia, pollution reduce scheme, cprs, ets, emissions trading scheme, Environment, K-Rudd & Australia, binding targets, party agreed, copenhagen later, allnews, If, K, Emissions trading, Air pollution, Kevin Rudd, Camp for Climate Action, Carbon finance, Australian Greens, Action on climate change
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