News tagged with “senator fielding”. Found:
13 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 13 tagged news reports
Youth allowance bill faces uphill battle
Sydney :: Australia | 13 days ago
Credibility
The Government has agreed to revise the bill to include more transitional help for students who are currently on a gap year. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has introduced the revised bill into the Lower House and urged the Opposition to support it....
Tags: prime minister, Australia Asia, senator fielding, Senate, Julia Gillard, deputy prime, minister julia, Youth Allowance, Australia, Sydney, Education, Politics, Social Security, Academia, Endeavour Programme, Centrelink, Financial aid, Social Issues, Economy of Australia, Scholarship, AUSTUDY, National Union of Students, Students' union, British society, Tertiary education fees in Australia, Family First Party, Foreign relations of Australia, Affordable housing, Welfare, Kevin Rudd, Postgraduate education
Bid to tame industry watchdog blocked
Melbourne :: Australia | 22 days ago
Credibility S election promise to abolish the controversial building industry watchdog by next February looks set for defeat with a key senator and the Opposition saying they will not support the changes. Talks between the Government and Senator Steve Fielding have...
Tags: senator fielding, Australia, Melbourne, Paul Howes, Howard Government, Australian Workers' Union, Members of the Australian Senate, Steve Fielding, Family First Party, Politics
Senate seeks info on Telstra share sale
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Future Fund Board of Guardians was also asked to explain the share sale. Senator Fielding wants to know if the Future Fund had any information which was not generally available, which would have affected the Telstra share price. "Why did the Future...
Tags: Telstra, future fund, senator fielding, telstra share
Floundering Fielding in 'fiskal' faux pas
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
Credibility Senator Fielding has frequently recently mispronounced "fiscal policy" as "physical policy". Speaking to journalists this morning he was questioned about the mispronunciation. "I'll make it quite clear: fiscal, F-I-S-K-A-L," he spelt. The journalist repeated...
Deal struck on renewable energy
University :: FL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Australia is in for a huge boost in renewable energy after the federal government and the opposition agreed to a deal. The deal, agreed today, will see the government's bill to have 20 per cent of electricity come from renewable sources by 2020 pass...
Tags: renewable energy, Senate, Australia, allowed universities, senator fielding
Fielding asks Gore for personal meeting
Sydney :: Australia | 4 months ago
Credibility Steve Fielding has introduced himself to world-famous campaigner Al Gore to ask for a personal meeting on climate change. The former US vice-president has won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his work highlighting the dangers of climate change. Senator...
Tags: global warming, Al Gore, climate change, senator fielding, chief scientist, Mr Gore
Fielding denies climate change
Canberra :: Australia | 5 months ago
Credibility But he's released a document setting out his position after returning earlier this month from a conference in the U.S. hosted by the controversial lobby group, The Heartland Institute. "Global temperature isn't rising," it says. On emissions trading,...
Tags: Senate, emissions trade, senator fielding, independent senator, climate change, Australian Greens
Senator 'swine flu risk' to Parliament
Melbourne :: Australia | 5 months ago
Credibility First senator Steve Fielding is attending Parliament this week despite being treated for possible swine flu after a relative contracted the virus. Senator Fielding has not been tested for H1N1 but is taking Tamiflu as a precaution because his sister-in-law...
Tags: Tamiflu, swine flu, taking tamiflu, Parliament, senator fielding, Melbourne
Combet won't guarantee Fielding's access to scientists
De Pere :: WI :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility After spending a week in the United States on a fact-finding mission, Senator Fielding says he now has doubts over whether human activity is the primary cause of climate change. Senator Fielding wants the Government to explore whether solar flares could...
Tags: climate change, senator fielding
Fielding feels heat over solar flare theory
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility Fresh back from a study tour of climate change in America, Senator Fielding says he is now doubting the science on the links between global warming and carbon emissions. Climate scientists here say Senator Fielding has been misinformed by American climate...
Tags: climate change, solar flares, senator fielding, Steve Fielding, global warming, flares theory, human activity, carbon emissions
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
