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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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