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Canberra faces legal challenge over carbon trading scheme
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
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The government hopes this week to have its amended carbon trading proposal passed into law, ahead of next month’s Copenhagen summit on climate change. Canberra is locked in late-stage talks with the opposition Liberal party, which blocked the original...
Tags: CLP, Australian, Canberra, carbon trading, trading scheme, United Kingdom, London, Emissions trading, Greenwashing, Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Mitigation of global warming in Australia, Climate change in Australia, Carbon finance, Politics of Australia, Environment
AP, international news coalition suspends cricket coverage in Australia for second season
Brisbane :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility The Associated Press will suspend coverage of cricket in Australia for the second consecutive international season because of a dispute over conditions for accreditation imposed by Cricket Australia. The AP was joined by Reuters and Agence France-Presse...
Tags: Cricket Australia, Australian, Australia, Brisbane, Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 1995￢ﾀﾓ96, Cricket in Australia, News Media Coalition, allnews
Making sure we can still make it in manufacturing
Modena :: Italy | 5 days ago
Credibility THE strong dollar, combined with vanishing factory jobs around the world, could see the collapse of Australia's manufacturing industry. Australia might have escaped the recession, thanks to its resource sector, but it's a contradiction.
Tags: Australian, manufacturers sector, Italy, Modena, Business Finance, Industry, Manufacturing
A sacrifice to keep the status quo
Nuuk :: Greenland | 5 days ago
Credibility Vested interests and those instinctively opposed to change have undermined attempts to act on carbon emissions...If you're worried about global warming, it is inadequate, a compromise diluted by more compromises to blunt its impact.
Tags: climate change, trade scheme, emissions trade, vested interests, Australian, Barnaby Joyce, Greenland, Nuuk, Emissions trading, Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Garnaut Climate Change Review, Carbon finance, Global warming, Environment
Associated Press: UN slams Burma over forced labor practices
Geneva :: Switzerland | 5 days ago
Credibility Geneva — The UN labor agency has criticized Burma for failing to abolish forced labor more than a decade after the global body first took up the issue with the Southeast Asian country, officials said Friday. The International Labor Organization adopted...
Tags: Burma UN, Australian, forced labor, Switzerland, Geneva, Year of birth missing, Politics of Burma, Aung Kyi, Human rights in Burma, Politics, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Aung San, State Peace and Development Council, Foreign relations of Burma, Burma Campaign UK, Military dictatorship, Cyclone Nargis, Outline of Burma, ASEAN, Nargis, International Development and Relief Foundation, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Disaster Accident
The live export industry cares about its animals
Manama :: Bahrain | 6 days ago
Credibility It is the same time of year when the Australian livestock export industry increases its year-round animal welfare activities to deliver even further improvements in the trade. As an Australian animal welfare specialist living in the Middle East and working...
Tags: Middle East, Meat & Livestock Australia, Western Australia, Australian, animal welfare, living animal, export industry, livestock export, Bahrain, Manama, Meat industry, Domestic sheep, Stockman, Slaughterhouse, Meat, Livestock, Animal rights, Meat processing
Investors eye internet TV boom
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 6 days ago
Credibility Ananda Krishnan has seized an opportunity created by the government's proposed national broadband network, whereby he could challenge traditional media players for Australian television viewers. Mr Krishnan, ranked by Forbes as Southeast Asia's richest...
Tags: Australian, tv set, video content, internet tv, ISP, Malaysian, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Satellite television, Australian subscription television services, IPTV, Astro, TransACT, Business Finance, Mobile phone companies, News Corporation, Internet television, Technology Internet, Entertainment Culture
Gayle heads back to Australia
Bridgetown :: Barbados | 6 days ago
Credibility West Indies captain Chris Gayle will return in time for the first Test against Australia starting in Brisbane on Thursday, after flying home last week to attend to his ill mother in Jamaica. Caribbean today, cooling speculation the beleaguered Windies...
Tags: Shane Warne, test cricket, Australian, Cricket Australia, Gabba, Jamaica, ICC, test series, Barbados, Bridgetown, Chris Gayle, Denesh Ramdin, West Indian cricket team in Australia in 2005￢ﾀﾓ06, West Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 2005￢ﾀﾓ06, Cricket in the West Indies, cricket, West Indies cricket team, allnews, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Glenn McGrath, Twenty20, International structure of cricket, International Cricket Council, One Day International, Members of the Order of the British Empire, One Day International cricket, The Gabba, 2006￢ﾀﾓ07 Ashes series, The Ashes, Ricky Ponting, Australia
Four agencies still standing in Brand Australia contest
Sydney :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility THE contest to create a brand that will do for Australian business exports what Paul Hogan and his barbecued shrimp did for tourism is hotting up. Four marketing agencies, STW Group, M&C Saatchi, a partnership between George Patterson Y&R and branding...
Tags: Australian, Brand Australia, Australia, Sydney, M&C Saatchi, Austrade, Simon Crean, Advertising agency, Branding agency, Business Finance, Advertising, Dot-com, Sapient
Super plea for infrastructure
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility Federal Government to find ways of tapping Australia's $1 trillion pool of superannuation savings to finance key infrastructure projects. The overall returns on direct involvement in big projects was too low for super funds compared with other investments...
Tags: Australian, super fund, Ernst & Young, Canada, Toronto, Taxation in Australia, Pension, Personal finance, Defined benefit pension plan, Private equity, Investment, Employment compensation, Finance, Business Finance
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