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Coalition position 'irrelevant' on emissions trading scheme
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
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Federal Opposition leader Brendan Nelson has said that the carbon trading scheme should not start until the rest of the world commits to firm action. But deputy leader Julie Bishop and the opposition treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull say Coalition policy...
Tags: Dr Nelson, Brendan Nelson, emissions trade, climate change, trade scheme, Mr Nelson, opposition leader, Coalition, Australia, Malcolm Turnbull
Wong opens door to delay on emissions
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Change Minister Penny Wong has hinted the Government may bow to pressure and delay the introduction of an emissions trading scheme, describing the 2010 start date as an "ambition" only. Amid rumblings within Labor ranks over the proposed scheme, Ms Wong...
Tags: Australia, climate change, emissions trading, Kevin Rudd, trading scheme, Brendan Nelson, Dr Nelson, Mr Rudd, Coalition, prime minister
NATO soldier killed in S Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility U.S.-led Coalition forces respectively for maintaining stability and helping in reconstruction. Escalating insurgency and violent incidents have left around 2,000 people dead since January this year in the war-torn Afghanistan.
Tags: killed, coalition, militants, war, Afghanistan, soldiers killing, roadside bomb, led coalition, nato soldiers, Kabul-Kandahar Highway
Coalition strips broadband bid secrecy
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Coalition yesterday used its numbers in the Senate to establish a select committee to investigate the broadband tender which will be covered by parliamentary privilege. Opposition communications spokesman Bruce Billson said his Coalition colleagues in...
Tags: broadband, telstra, communications, optus, Telstra Click, Senate, National Broadband Network, Coalition, network tender
Govt hiding emission cuts modelling: Hunt
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Government is planning to release a blueprint for a carbon emissions trading scheme next month after it receives economist Ross Garnaut's interim climate change report...Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says next month's blueprint will indicate...
Tags: emissions trade, Australia, Kyoto Protocol, trade scheme, climate change, gas emissions, greenhouse gas, Coalition
Nato claims routing Taliban in Kandahar vicinity
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Nato and Afghan forces using air power cleared Taliban militants from villages near the strategic city of Kandahar on Thursday, killing at least 56 militants, officials said. Troops were now making a final search of houses in Arghandab district, a day...
Tags: attack, for, bomb attack, coalition, Kandahar, Afghanistan, claim, southern afghanistan, Taliban, Helmand
Coalition's Senate ploys wasteful: govt
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility June 2008 The Rudd government has accused the opposition of economic vandalism by using its Senate majority to delay the passage of budget legislation. The delays will cost $300 million in revenue and imperil the budget surplus, Government Senate leader...
Tags: Senate, Kevin Rudd, Coalition, Brendan Nelson, petrol prices
Govt claims killing seven Taliban in Ghazni
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Seven Taliban fighters have reportedly been killed in the airstrike of coalition troops in Ghazni province, officials claimed on Saturday. Andar district chief Abdur Rahim Desiwal told Pajhwok Afghan News a house in Mokam villaged was bombed early this...
Tags: airstrike, coalition, afghanistan, cops, Ghazni
Henry defends remarks critical of Howard govt
Howard :: WI :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Coalition senators have questioned Dr Henry about a number of comments reported in the media. They say the comments were critical of the Coalition and the former Howard government and should not have been made by a senior public servant. Dr Henry has...
Libs, Nats split over wheat
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility THE Liberals and Nationals have formally split over wheat policy, revealing significant ideological differences even as they contemplate a merger. The Coalition partners squared off in parliament late last night over the Government's bill to end the single-desk...
Tags: single desk, Coalition, Liberal Party, desk wheat
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