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Travelling full circuit
Broome :: Australia | 5 days ago
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Aaron Pederson is juggling dual roles, writes Bridget McManus. IT'S a scene that could be straight out of The Circuit, SBS' AFI award-winning drama series about white justice in black communities. A handsome, smiling Aboriginal man is refused service...
Tags: Aaron Pedersen, City Homicide, West Australian, Drew Ellis, Broome, The Circuit, Brother Vinnie, Australia, When, Entertainment Culture, Warwick Thornton
Why is green business decades away? Better ask the business people
Melbourne :: Australia | 10 days ago
Credibility In its timing and language, the statement could not have been better targeted to sink the carbon pollution reduction scheme, described as the ''world's toughest''. Similar tactics have caused a serious split in the US Chamber of Commerce. Companies including...
Tags: West Australian, Australian Conservation Foundation, carbon pollution, pollution reduction, Tony Howarth, reduction scheme, climate change, energy efficiency, Australia, Melbourne, Action on climate change, Air pollution, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Emissions trading, Green-collar worker, Carbon finance, Global warming, Climate change in Australia, Environment
Australian naval tragedy remembered
Geraldton :: Australia | 11 days ago
Credibility Sydney during the Second World War, Minister for Veterans' Affairs Alan Griffin encouraged Australians to pay tribute to the 645 men who lost their lives in the tragedy. "The sinking of Sydney and the death of her crew was one of Australia's greatest...
Tags: HMAS Sydney II, naval tragedy, Western Australia, tragedy remembered, West Australian, Kormoran, australians naval, Australia, Geraldton
Drug charges laid over 'legal' plants
Perth :: Australia | 13 days ago
Credibility Police say the 40-year-old man and his 37-year-old wife, from Thornlie in Perth's east, were caught with more than 30kg of khat after a search of their home this week. Officers raided the home after the discovery of 7.5kg of khat in three parcels being...
Tags: West Australian, Australia, Perth, Khat, Yemeni culture, Alkaloids, Cathine, Cathinone, Medicinal plants, Stimulants, Celastraceae
Inquiry into Montara oil spill launched
Sydney :: Australia | 26 days ago
Credibility David Borthwick has been appointed to lead an inquiry into a major oil spill off the Western Australian coast. The oil began leaking on August 21 in the Montara field near the West Atlas oil rig, more than 200km north-west of WA's Kimberley coastline,...
Tags: oil spill, Western Australian, West Australian, oil rig, Australian Greens, Montara, West Atlas
Flying doctors to join boat rescue effort
Sydney :: Australia | 29 days ago
Credibility Indian Ocean almost 1,600 nautical miles north-west of Perth. A giant LNG carrier is already at the scene and has so far saved 17 people, but it is feared there were at least 40 on board the boat...Western Australia, Stephen Langford, says time is critical....
Tags: Australian Broadcasting Corp., West Australian, Western Australia, Three Australian, asylum seekers, Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean, confirmed dead, organ donation, Mr Rudd
Second attempt to plug oil leak fails
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The West Atlas rig off Australia's north-west coast has been leaking for nearly eight weeks. Now there will have to be a third attempt to stop the flow but the date for that will not be set until today. Environmentalists are calling for the company to...
Tags: West Australian
Shell to build floating LNG plant
Broome :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The company plans to process gas from its Prelude and Concerto fields in the Browse Basin off the Kimberley coast using floating LNG technology. Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says the technology will allow remote gas fields, which may otherwise...
Tags: Royal Dutch Shell, West Australian, Western Australia, floating liquefied, LNG, gas field, gas plant, shell plans, final investment, natural gas
Dolphins exposed to Timor Sea oil spill: WWF
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility The environment group WWF says dolphins and other marine animals are swimming around in oil leaking from a rig off the north-west Australian coast. Oil has been leaking from the West Atlas oil rig in the Timor Sea since at least August 21.
Tags: West Australian, oil spill, WWF, marine life, Australia, Sydney
Darwin could take asylum seeker overflow
Darwin :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility Country Liberals Senator Nigel Scullion's question comes after another boatload of asylum seekers was intercepted off Australia's north-west coast this morning, the fourth in just over a week. The 58 people on board are being transferred to Christmas...
Tags: West Australian, AN Australian, asylum seekers, boat carrying, Australia, Darwin
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