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S new high commissioner, Baroness Valerie Amos, is somewhat perplexed about where she has found herself on her new posting. Earlier this month the Baroness gave her first interview in which she politely expressed her concern about the lack of sophistication...
Tags: climate change, trading scheme, emissions trading, climate scepticism, Coalition, Kevin Rudd, global warming, Britain, United Kingdom, London, Air pollution, Action on climate change, Climate Sceptics Party, Carbon finance, Environment, Politics
National Editor Mark Davis examines the implications. The will-o-the-wisp is a mysterious light which flickers at night over bogs, swamps and marshes. At once disturbing and alluring, it is said to recede into the distance when approached and so can...
Tags: Liberal, Malcolm Turnbull, Australian federal election, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Senate, Westminster system, Politics, Social Issues, Barnaby Joyce, John Howard, National Party of Australia leadership election, Coalition, Liberal Party of Australia, National Party of Australia
The Coalition-dominated Committee has also raised questions about the tender process run by the competition watchdog and recommends the Auditor-General investigate. The website was set up by the Government to allow consumers to compare grocery prices...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Members of the Australian Senate, Barnaby Joyce, Coalition
Cross-bench senators joined with the Liberal and National parties to effectively stop the Government's legislation which would have seen more than 150 000 students receive start-up scholarships worth $2 154 in 2010. In addition, 21 000 commonwealth scholarships...
Tags: Coalition, vice chancellors, Youth Allowance, receive youth, ignores pleas, coalition ignores, parental income, Australia, Canberra, Welfare, Politics, Association of Commonwealth Universities, La Trobe University, Ian Chubb, Education, Social Issues
IT'S a bad day when Bob Carr starts lecturing about economic reform. He was opining on the weekend about how the parallel import rules make books more expensive and how the federal Labor Government should have adopted the recommendations of the Productivity...
Tags: parallel import, Bob Carr, Coalition, Australia, Sydney, Goods and Services Tax, Taxation in Australia
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's personal rating with voters has fallen in the past two weeks as he struggles to stem a rise in boatpeople arrivals, but his government remains ahead. A new opinion poll, published in The Australian newspaper on...
Tags: Senate, emissions trade, trade scheme, Kevin Rudd, Coalition, Parliament, government wants, Telstra, Australia, Canberra, Newspoll, Rudd, Immigration to Australia, Refugees, Pacific Solution, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Prime Ministers of Australia, Politics, Greenwashing, Sustainability, Greg Combet, Family Guy, Carbon finance, Air pollution, Emissions trading, Environment, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Senate of Canada, Climate change in Australia, Social Issues, Nick Minchin
Labor has agreed to a keystone coalition demand that agriculture be excluded permanently from the carbon pollution reduction scheme, raising hopes that government legislation will pass through parliament before the Copenhagen climate summit in December....
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THE state Education Minister, Verity Firth, has warned that laws passed by the Opposition introducing $55,000 fines for newspapers which publish comparisons of school results are likely to end up in the High Court, after receiving legal advice the legislation...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Coalition, Malcolm Turnbull, Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Barry O'Farrell, Opposition, Politics, O'Farrell, Julia Gillard, Numeracy, Peter Debnam
And, even if a deal is reached, chief Coalition negotiator Ian Macfarlane says it is still unclear whether his colleagues will back it. "No one should underestimate how difficult this is going to be to get through the party room a second time," Mr Macfarlane...
Tags: Ian Macfarlane, Coalition, emissions trading, party room, trading scheme
Leader Ted Baillieu has signalled his intention to make next year's state election a referendum on crime and corruption by bolstering the Coalition's firepower in the police portfolio. Declaring that a culture of violence is ruining Melbourne's reputation,...
Tags: Coalition, Ted Baillieu