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Taxpayers foot bill for protest damage
Sydney :: Australia | about 17 hours ago
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The Mercury reports House of Assembly Speaker Michael Polley has hit the roof over the bill for broken slate tiles on the historic 1830s building. Still Wild Still Threatened has held two demonstrations this year that have involved activists scaling the...
Tags: Parliament House, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Tile, Mosaic, Floors, Social Issues, Roofs, Stone, Building materials, Slate, Disaster Accident, Roof, Human Interest
In the long run for the planet … do we care?
Canberra :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility The runners jog along the beach beside the Great Ocean Road. Photo: Rebecca Hallas ON A recent Monday this month, Mark Hynes delivered a small speech at Parliament House, Canberra. The moment was something of a revelation to ''Hynsey'', as he is known....
Tags: Safe Climate Australia, climate change, Parliament House, Senior Constable Hynes, Mark Hynes, Australia, Canberra, Environment, Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Environmental skepticism, Global warming, Great Barrier Reef, Global warming controversy, Coral reef
Nothing dull about SA saga of sex and politics
Adelaide :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility There was a Clinton-esque echo to the rhetoric, but no proof on a blue dress, when Australia's longest-serving current premier, Mike Rann, faced the media hordes in Adelaide this week to reject claims by a married former Parliament House barmaid that...
Tags: Mike Rann, Parliament House, Adelaide, South Australian, Michelle Chantelois, Ms Chantelois, Australia, Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, Rann, Premiers of South Australia, Premiers of the Australian states, Don Dunstan
A potty decision to de-green the House
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility AS THE prospects of bipartisan legislation to combat climate change firmed yesterday, parliamentary officials concluded plans to remove all plant life from Parliament House. The Joint House Department, which administers the Parliament, has decided that...
Tags: Bill Heffernan, Parliament House, pot plant, senator heffernan, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Surnames, Houseplant, Politics, Heffernan, Betting
Protesters block Parliament's doors
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility Parliament's front doors were locked today during a blockade by climate change protesters calling for deep cuts to carbon emissions. About 200 protesters demanding a 40 per cent cut in carbon emissions were visited by senators Bill Heffernan and Steve...
Tags: Parliament House, Inside Parliament, FEDERAL Parliament, United Kingdom, London, Protests, Political riots, protests in Hungary, Plane Stupid, Politics, Protests against the Iraq War, Action on climate change, Radical environmentalism, Environment
Australia edges closer to carbon-trading scheme
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 7 days ago
Credibility Ian Macfarlane, chief negotiator for the Liberal-led coalition, said he had clinched five weeks of intense bargaining after the government had met a demand for increased compensation for electricity generators and other big polluters. "I think we've got...
Tags: THE Australian Greens, Parliament House, Mr Rudd, Kevin Rudd-Penny Wong-Malcolm Turnbull, National Carbon Offset Standard, prime minister, emissions trading, trading scheme, Denmark, Copenhagen, Kevin Rudd, Carbon finance, Whistling, Politics, Climate change in Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, Republic Advisory Committee, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Air pollution, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Environment, Action on climate change, Energy policy, Individual and political action on climate change, Business Finance, Bob Brown, Franklin Dam, Australian Greens, Members of the Australian Senate, Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, Carbon dioxide, Carbon offset, Carbon neutrality, Greenhouse gases
Rann's Labor still on track for win: analyst
Adelaide :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility A political commentator believes Labor is still on track to win the South Australian election despite sex allegations against Premier Mike Rann. The Premier has denied having any sexual relationship with a former Parliament House waitress. Mike Rann has...
Tags: Mr Rann, Mike Rann, South Australian, Ms Michelle Chantelois, premier mike, New Idea, Parliament House, having sex, idea magazine, Australia, Adelaide, Phil Goff, Goff, Premiers of the Australian states, Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, Rann, Premiers of South Australia, Politics, Bill Clinton, Kevin Rudd, Rudd, Law Crime, Goanna, Entertainment Culture
Rann rejects 'malicious' sex claims
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility South Australian Premier Mike Rann has described an interview asserting he had a sexual affair with a married parliamentary barmaid as "malicious". Michelle Chantelois told the Seven Network in a paid interview on Sunday night that she had an affair with...
Tags: Mike Rann, Mr Rann, Michelle Chantelois, Parliament House, paid interview, premier mike, Seven Network, Ms Chantelois, sex claims, chantelois told, Los Angeles, Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, Premiers of the Australian states, Rann, Nick Bolkus, Premiers of South Australia, Politics, Voicemail, Law Crime, Entertainment Culture, John Brown, Hawke-Keating Government, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Christopher Pyne
Tune in to a political thriller
Adelaide :: Australia | 10 days ago
Credibility THE explosive cocktail of alleged sex, lies and TV videotape unfolding this weekend is one of those fast and furious political dramas that comes out of left field faster than a man wielding a copy of Winestate magazine. Prior to Premier Mike Rann being...
Tags: Mike Rann, Michelle Chantelois, Parliament House, air tomorrow, Seven Network, night program, Mr Rann, premier mike, Australia, Adelaide, Rann, Kevin Foley, Premiers of the Australian states, Politics, Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, Year of birth missing, John Hill, Patrick Conlon, Tom Koutsantonis, Premiers of South Australia, South Australia
Sorry, I have a nagging doubt
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Honestly, the Canberra weather system really needs to be investigated as a strong source of teleological evidence for the existence of God. How else can you explain the way it rallies to the cause when there is an important case to be made?
Tags: Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, forgotten australians, Parliament House, Los Angeles, Racism in Australia, Stolen Generations, Xenu, Apology, Politics of Australia, Socratic dialogues, Cultural assimilation
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