| Scientists to tackle scepticism
The Age
15 June 2010
REPRESENTATIVES of scientific organisations including the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology will meet today to discuss better communication of the science behind man-made climate change, in the wake of crumbling political and public consensus on global warming.
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Scientists to tackle scepticism
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Scientists want clear message on climate
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Scientists to tackle scepticism
Europe sets crazy course on climate
The Australian
15 June 2010
IN a heroic case of finding a silver lining in the cloudiest situation, the European Union climate commissioner claims the global economic crisis and recession gave everyone a lucky break.
Australia’s sustainable cities
The Sydney Morning Herald
15 June 2010
Darwin has been ranked the country’s most sustainable city in a new index created by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
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Darwin marked as Australia’s most sustainable city
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Perth comes last for sustainability
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Qld ranks high in environmental sustainability cities report
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Hobart grabs green ranking
The Age
Australia’s sustainable cities
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Melbourne trails in sustainable cities index
The Age
Perth ranked least sustainable city in Australia
The Brisbane Times
Australia’s sustainable cities
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Queensland’s green sheen: State dominates sustainability list
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Adelaide tops cities survey, Sydney last
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Darwin is top sustainable city: ACF
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Darwin is top sustainable city
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Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Perth ranked Australia’s dirtiest city
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Darwin ‘best in Oz’
The Mercury
City driven from honours
The Mercury
Darwin Australia’s most sustainable city
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Native forests on poll agenda
The Mercury
15 June 2010
GREATER protection of Tasmania’s native forests is set to become a central issue in this year’s federal election campaign.
BP presents new oil containment plan as Obama likens disaster to 9/11
The Australian
15 June 2010
The federal government has moved to defend Climate Change Minister Penny Wong over claims she misled the Senate.
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Obama ups rhetoric on ‘oil 9/11′
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BP presents new oil containment plan as Obama likens disaster to 9/11
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BP presents new oil containment plan as Obama likens disaster to 9/11
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BP presents new oil containment plan as Obama likens disaster to 9/11
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BP presents new oil containment plan as Obama likens disaster to 9/11
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BP presents new oil containment plan as Obama likens disaster to 9/11
The Sunday Times
BP presents new oil containment plan as Obama likens disaster to 9/11
The Mercury
BP presents new oil containment plan
President Obama determined to make BP pay for the oil spill
The Australian
15 June 2010
ABOUT the time President Barack Obama was sternly discussing the BP oil spill with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, by telephone on Saturday, a protest group known as the South Florida Raging Grannies was plastering its latest video across the internet.
Obama hopes for deal soon with BP on disaster claims
The Sydney Morning Herald
15 June 2010
President Barack Obama said he hoped for an outline deal with BP by Wednesday on a multi-billion dollar fund for oil disaster victims and vowed to use all his power to heal the Gulf coast.
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Obama hopes for deal soon with BP on disaster claims
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Obama hopes for deal soon with BP on disaster claims
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Obama hopes for deal soon with BP on disaster claims
Obama taps experts for oil spill probe
The Sydney Morning Herald
15 June 2010
US President Barack Obama has named five of America’s top scientists, environmentalists and conservation experts to his independent commission set up to probe the causes of the Gulf oil spill.
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Obama taps experts for oil spill probe
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Obama taps experts for oil spill probe
Kevin Rudd’s carbon pledge error
The Australian
15 June 2010
SINCE BP first announced the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, what President Barack Obama is calling the biggest environmental disaster in US history has seen BP’s share price fall from about 650 pence to a low of 366p on Thursday of last week, a fall of 43 per cent.
Canberra acts on whale claims
The Australian
15 June 2010
THE Rudd government has used new claims of Japanese vote-rigging in the International Whaling Commission to call for sweeping reforms to the peak whaling body just a week out from a meeting to decide the future of whaling.
Environment lobby fights KI joy flights
ABC Online
15 June 2010
An environmental lobby group is fighting the use of helicopter joy flights in and around Kangaroo Island.
Mike Young calls for local management of environmental water
ABC Rural Online
15 June 2010
Economist and head of the Environment Institute, Professor Mike Young, is calling for local bodies to manage environmental water.
Renourishment plans for Port Phillip, Bellarine beaches
The Age
15 June 2010
EROSION at Port Phillip beaches was due to natural patterns not dredging, according to Environment Minister Gavin Jennings.
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Renourishment plans for Port Phillip, Bellarine beaches
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Renourishment plans for Port Phillip, Bellarine beaches
The Spring St animal house
The Weekly Times
15 June 2010
VICTORIA’S Parliament House is home to the threatened warty swamp frog, spotted-tailed quoll and striped legless lizard.
Price of water to rise after overhaul
The Australian
15 June 2010
Infrastructure Australia is expected to release a landmark report on urban water as early as this week, outlining reforms aimed at tapping billions of dollars’ worth of investment needed to upgrade water infrastructure to cope with the rapidly growing population and changing climate patterns.
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
Companies eyeing whale products: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
15 June 2010
Companies in Japan, Iceland and Norway are developing whale-based products ranging from drugs to cosmetics to animal feed, banking on the resumption of global trade, according to a report.
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Companies eyeing whale products: report
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Companies eyeing whale products: report
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Companies eyeing whale products: report
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Companies eyeing whale products: report
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Companies eyeing whale products: report
Price of water to rise after overhaul
The Australian
15 June 2010
Infrastructure Australia is expected to release a landmark report on urban water as early as this week, outlining reforms aimed at tapping billions of dollars’ worth of investment needed to upgrade water infrastructure to cope with the rapidly growing population and changing climate patterns.
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
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Price of water to rise after overhaul
A future with less water
The Canberra Times
15 June 2010
For more than 100 years Australians have argued over the waters of the Murray-Darling Basin. We now know that as we developed extraction industries, we have left too little water in the rivers to sustain a healthy river system.
Low wind prices blow as renewable investors are offered a special deal
The Sydney Morning Herald
15 June 2010
Investment in wind power may remain sluggish for the next few years, analysts say, despite federal government attempts to improve the troubled renewable energy target.
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Low wind prices blow as renewable investors are offered a special deal
The Brisbane Times
Low wind prices blow as renewable investors are offered a special deal
From the Garden of Eden flows environmental disaster for Iraq
The Age
15 June 2010
THE Shatt al-Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly democratic government is almost powerless to fix.
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From the Garden of Eden flows environmental disaster for Iraq
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From the Garden of Eden flows environmental disaster for Iraq
Radiation leak reported at Chinese nuclear plant
The Sydney Morning Herald
15 June 2010
A nuclear plant in China’s southern Guangdong province has recorded a small leak, the Hong Kong government admitted, after the incident was exposed by a US-based radio station.
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Radiation leak reported at Chinese nuclear plant
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Radiation leak reported at Chinese nuclear plant
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‘Small leak’ at Chinese nuclear plant
Illegal loggers turn elephant protectors in Indonesia
ABC Online
15 June 2010
Indonesia is home to 10 per cent of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests, but officials estimate 10 million hectares have been lost to illegal logging.
Whales spotted off Mornington Peninsula
ABC Online
15 June 2010
A pod of five whales has been spotted in waters off the Mornington Peninsula in southern Victoria.
UN Climate Chief insists Bonn talks made progress
ABC Radio Australia
14 June 2010
The latest round of U-N Climate Change Forum talks in Bonn, Germany wrapped up over the weekend.
Labor needs a a practical, not a moral, approach to climate change
The Australian
14 June 2010
NOW may seem a strange time for progressives to talk about renewing the climate change debate.
Calls to get ETS back on agenda
The Age
14 June 2010
MALCOLM Turnbull has challenged the major parties’ rationale for delaying action on climate change by arguing other countries are promising “very substantial” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Calls to get ETS back on agenda
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Calls to get ETS back on agenda
Whale rescue champion honoured
ABC Online
14 June 2010
A government wildlife officer who has dedicated his life to the safe rescue of whales at sea has been honoured on the Queen’s Birthday.
Government urged to come clean on fuel leak
ABC Online
14 June 2010
The Northern Territory Opposition says the Government needs to ensure that correct processes are followed after reports of a 70,000-litre fuel leak at Nhulunbuy’s Alcan refinery.
Australian company blamed for oil spill
ABC Online
14 June 2010
As oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico, there are fears about the potential for another smaller spill in Papua New Guinea.
Whaling court action may fail: Garrett
The Sydney Morning Herald
14 June 2010
Australia could fail in its bid to legally end Japan’s scientific whaling program in the Southern Ocean, federal Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett says.
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Whaling court action may fail: Garrett
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Whaling court action may fail: Garrett
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Whaling court action may fail: Garrett
Japan whaling bribery claims ‘common knowledge’
ABC Online
14 June 2010
A conservation activist says an investigation into claims that Japan bribes small nations for their support on whaling is confirmation of what has been common knowledge for a long time.
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Peter Garrett worried by whale ‘bribes’
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Peter Garrett worried by whale ‘bribes’
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Peter Garrett worried by whale ‘bribes’
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Peter Garrett worried by whale ‘bribes’
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Peter Garrett worried by whale ‘bribes’
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Peter Garrett worried by whale ‘bribes’
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Peter Garrett worried by whale ‘bribes’
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Garrett worried by Japan’s whale ‘bribes’
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Garrett worried by Japan’s whale ‘bribes’
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Garrett worried by Japan’s whale ‘bribes’
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Garrett worried by whaling ‘bribes’
Garrett ignored whaling corruption: Hunt
The Age
14 June 2010
Federal Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett has been accused of ignoring alleged corruption within the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for political reasons.
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Garrett ignored whaling corruption: Hunt
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Garrett ignored whaling corruption: Hunt
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Garrett ignored whaling corruption
Whaling bribe claims hit Japan
The West Australian
14 June 2010
Australia has called for a fundamental overhaul of the organisation which oversees whaling, following accusations of bribery levied against Japan.
Chairman’s illness threatens whaling deal
The Sydney Morning Herald
14 June 2010
A HOTLY disputed global deal on whaling has been dealt a serious blow with the withdrawal of its chief architect, just before a crucial meeting.
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Chairman’s illness threatens whaling deal
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Chairman’s illness threatens whaling deal
Something fishy, but all in a worthwhile cause
The Age
14 June 2010
MARINE cinematographer and photographer Valerie Taylor and her husband Ron shot the Jaws-style footage that stirred shark fears world wide. But she has made up for it by making documentaries supporting the protection of the great white shark and other endangered marine life and habitats.
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Shark expert honoured for conservation
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Something fishy, but all in a worthwhile cause
The Brisbane Times
Something fishy, but all in a worthwhile cause
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Shark expert honoured for conservation
Wentworth report flawed
The Weekly Times
14 June 2010
However, the Wentworth Group has chosen to release a divisive report that is flawed and clouds the issues around the management of the Basin.
Garrett urged to step in over 4WD stoush
ABC Online
14 June 2010
Tasmanian environmentalists are calling on Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to intervene in a stoush about four-wheel driving in the Tarkine area of north-west Tasmania.
Explosion of life as rivers run in Central Australia
ABC 7.30 Report
14 June 2010
The rivers in central Australia are running for the second year in a row, again delivering to Lake Eyre. This time the deluge has triggered an even more spectacular explosion of life in the desert.
Population growth challenges capital cities
The Australian
14 June 2010
MELBOURNE is the nation’s best capital city in planning for population growth, while Sydney ranks ahead of only Darwin and Hobart, neither of which has a full city plan.
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Not much to plan about in Perth: report
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Adelaide tops cities survey, Sydney last
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Poll shows 77pc against native forest logging
ABC Online
14 June 2010
The Greens say new polling shows the vast majority of Australians support an end to the logging of native forests.
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Native forest parks appeal
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Australians want more national parks
Nepal investigates after 28 endangered rhinos killed in 11 months
The Australian
14 June 2010
NEPAL’S government is investigating the poaching of rhinos in the Himalayan nation after 28 of the endangered animals were killed over the past 11 months.
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Nepal investigates after 28 endangered rhinos killed in 11 months
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Nepal investigates after 28 endangered rhinos killed in 11 months
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Nepal investigates after 28 endangered rhinos killed in 11 months
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Nepal investigates after 28 endangered rhinos killed in 11 months
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Nepal investigates after 28 endangered rhinos killed in 11 months
The Sunday Times
Nepal investigates after 28 endangered rhinos killed in 11 months
The Mercury
Probe after 28 endangered rhinos killed
UK hydrogen car, with Australian flair, heads our way
The Age
14 June 2010
THE first large-scale trial of a fleet of hydrogen-powered commuter cars has been launched in Britain – and its designers are bound for Australia to expand the experiment.
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UK hydrogen car, with Australian flair, heads our way
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UK hydrogen car, with Australian flair, heads our way
Charity dumps 20 tonnes of food on Melbourne
ABC Online
14 June 2010
Twenty tonnes of food have been piled up at Southbank in Melbourne as part of a campaign to raise awareness about food waste.
Aussie bird experts join BP spill efforts
ABC Online
14 June 2010
Two of Australia’s foremost seabird rescue experts are joining the mammoth task of saving birds caught up in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Parties point fingers over shelved climate scheme
ABC Online
13 June 2010
The Federal Government and the Greens are arguing over who is to blame for the failure of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) legislation.
Turnbull attacks Rudd’s climate change ‘cowardice’
ABC Online
13 June 2010
Former federal Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has accused Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of being a coward on the issue of climate change.
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Turnbull assault on climate of fear
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Turnbull attacks Labor climate policy
Turnbull calls for climate courage
The Age
13 June 2010
MALCOLM Turnbull has branded the Coalition’s climate change scheme a ”medium-term, stop-gap policy” and suggested the opposition lacked political courage by spurning an emissions trading scheme.
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Turnbull calls for climate courage
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Turnbull calls for climate courage
Turnbull trying to rebuild brand: Tanner
The Age
13 June 2010
Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has accused former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull of trying to rebuild his shattered political brand by slamming Labor’s stance on climate change.
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Turnbull trying to rebuild brand: Tanner
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Turnbull trying to rebuild brand: Tanner
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‘Turnbull trying to rebuild brand’
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Turnbull trying to rebuild brand: Tanner
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Lindsay Tanner takes aim at ‘rebuilt’ Turnbull
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Lindsay Tanner takes aim at ‘rebuilt’ Turnbull
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Lindsay Tanner takes aim at ‘rebuilt’ Turnbull
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Lindsay Tanner takes aim at ‘rebuilt’ Turnbull
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Lindsay Tanner takes aim at ‘rebuilt’ Turnbull
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Lindsay Tanner takes aim at ‘rebuilt’ Turnbull
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Lindsay Tanner takes aim at ‘rebuilt’ Turnbull
When politicians fail, people do it for themselves
The Age
13 June 2010
AS LEGISLATION falters and programs end, the community is stepping up. Several years ago, I was living on the grounds of a large school, oddly located between a rubbish tip and an oil refinery. The infrastructure of my comfortable life, usually out of sight and mind, was here exposed, inputs on one side, outputs on the other – dirty energy and excessive waste.
Toxic scrub-up a success
The Sydney Morning Herald
13 June 2010
THE last traces of Vietnam War-era Agent Orange have been removed from Sydney’s Rhodes Peninsula, marking the end of the largest environmental clean-up in Australia’s history.
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Toxic scrub-up a success
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Toxic scrub-up a success
70,000 litres of petrol spilt at mine
ABC Online
13 June 2010
The Northern Territory Department of Resources says it is investigating an unleaded fuel spill at the Rio Tinto Alcan alumina mine and refinery at Nhulunbuy, on the Gove Peninsula.
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Oil leak at NT Rio plant held for now
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Oil leak at NT Rio plant held for now
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Oil leak at NT Rio plant held for now
The West Australian
Oil leak at NT Rio plant held for now
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Oil leak at NT Rio plant held for now
Japan ‘bribing’ small nations to back whaling
ABC Online
13 June 2010
A British newspaper says Japan has been bribing small nations to help it overturn a moratorium on commercial whaling.
YouTube clip follows whaling legal bid
The Sydney Morning Herald
13 June 2010
Federal Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett has opened another front in the war against whaling – this time on YouTube.
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YouTube clip follows whaling legal bid
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YouTube clip follows whaling legal bid
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YouTube clip follows whaling legal bid
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YouTube clip follows whaling legal bid
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YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
The Australian
YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
The Herald Sun
YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
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Peter Garrett flays the whalers
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YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
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YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
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YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
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YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
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YouTube assault follows court action on whaling
Something is knocking the state’s owls off their perches
The Age
13 June 2010
WHAT’S happened to Victoria’s carnivorous owls? A significant number have vanished, and the Department of Sustainability and Environment isn’t sure what’s going on.
Trashy hotel highlights coastline pollution
ABC Online
13 June 2010
A German artist has created a hotel made of rubbish from Europe’s beaches as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the coastline’s pollution.
No junk mail please, we prefer trees, say latest waste warriors
The Age
13 June 2010
WASTE paper at Plenty Parklands Primary School and prepare for an earbashing.
Solar a bargain for some: Choice
The Age
13 June 2010
Some lucky Australians can pay off their solar panels in just five years and go on to enjoy free electricity.
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Solar a bargain for some: Choice
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Solar a bargain for some: Choice
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Solar a bargain for some: Choice
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Solar a bargain for some – Choice
Critics slam new climate change proposal
The Age
12 June 2010
A new round of climate talks has ended with rich and poor countries both sharply criticising a new text meant to pave the way toward a deal to halt global warming.
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Critics slam new climate change proposal
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Critics slam new climate change proposal
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Critics slam new climate change proposal
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Critics slam new climate change proposal
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Critics slam new climate change proposal
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Critics slam climate change proposal
Insulation checks fall short of recommendations
ABC Online
12 June 2010
A secret report shows the Federal Government is inspecting fewer than the recommended number of homes that had insulation installed under its axed scheme.
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PM ‘putting lives at risk’ on insulation
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Insulation plan inspections may need to double
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PM ‘putting lives at risk’ on insulation
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PM ‘putting lives at risk’ on insulation
The West Australian
Insulation inspections fall short: Hunt
Top insulators breached safety
The Australian
12 June 2010
THE top 100 businesses that received about $360 million from the government’s insulation program had among the highest incidence of safety breaches, damning new figures reveal.
Energy regulator draws a surprise line in Victoria
The Age
12 June 2010
HMMM. Climate change is accelerating so we need to spend more money reinforcing the electricity grid that is contributing to climate change.
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Energy regulator draws a surprise line in Victoria
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Energy regulator draws a surprise line in Victoria
Ban on coal-fired power plants in NSW
The Daily Telegraph
12 June 2010
BUILDING coal-fired power plants will be banned in NSW as part of a new climate change policy expected to go to Cabinet next week.
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Ban on coal-fired power plants in NSW
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Ban on coal-fired power plants in NSW
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Ban on coal-fired power plants in NSW
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Ban on coal-fired power plants in NSW
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Ban on coal-fired power plants in NSW
Gas site hosts sensitive species: report
The Age
12 June 2010
The critically endangered orange-bellied parrot and southern bent-wing bat are among the species inhabiting an area along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road slated for gas exploration.
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Gas site hosts sensitive species: report
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Gas site hosts sensitive species: report
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Gas site hosts sensitive species: report
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Gas site hosts sensitive species: report
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Gas site hosts sensitive species report
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Gas site hosts sensitive species: report
Gulf disaster underscores challenges
The Sydney Morning Herald
12 June 2010
The US knows it has to wean itself off fossil fuels and is taking big steps to do so.
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Gulf disaster underscores challenges
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Gulf disaster underscores challenges
Embattled BP boss finds ally in Cameron
The Age
12 June 2010
LONDON: The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is to speak to the US President, Barack Obama, by telephone over the weekend amid growing clamour in Britain about ”BP bashing” since the Gulf of Mexico oil leak.
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Embattled BP boss finds ally in Cameron
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Embattled BP boss finds ally in Cameron
Crude awakening as gulf estimates revised
The Australian
12 June 2010
THE amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico due to the BP oil disaster could be double earlier estimates, with the equivalent of the notorious Exxon Valdez spill flowing every week.
Labor faces pressure to halt drilling
The Age
12 June 2010
THE Rudd government is under increasing pressure to halt deep-water offshore drilling as the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe worsens.
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Counting the cost of drilling down deep
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Counting the cost of drilling down deep
Tagged Barrow Island possums perish on mainland
The Sunday Times
12 June 2010
MORE than half the tagged possums moved from Barrow Island to make way for the Gorgon gas project are dead.
Far too slow to fix Moorabool river’s flow
The Geelong Advertiser
12 June 2010
Third generation farmer Daryl Hunt feels helpless as he watches the water-stricken Moorabool River’s environment die from his Lal Lal property.
Sydney residents fight to save historic trees
ABC Online
12 June 2010
Dozen of protesters have gathered at a train station on Sydney’s north shore to try to stop RailCorp workers from cutting down five historic fig trees.
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Sydney fig trees get the chop
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Unkindest cut for historic north shore fig trees
Greens set to pull plug over planning
The Canberra Times
12 June 2010
The ACT Greens are prepared to tear up their agreement with the Stanhope Labor Government over plans to bulldoze 32ha of nationally endangered woodland to build a shopping centre.
Nukes the answer for Tonga, says king
The Sydney Morning Herald
12 June 2010
The impoverished South Pacific island nation of Tonga should move quickly toward nuclear power as its main source of electricity, its king said on Friday.
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Nukes the answer for Tonga, says king
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Nukes the answer for Tonga, says king
Darwin in the p*o
The Australian
12 June 2010
SOME of Darwin’s best known beaches were closed this week after potentially dangerous E. coli bacteria levels reached four times the safe level.
The dirt on being green
The Sydney Morning Herald
12 June 2010
Cleaning products maker Aware Environmental has received a lesson in the bloody nose you can get by stepping on the big boys’ turf – in this case, mainstream laundry detergent manufacturers. Having survived the past decade of mass product-deletions by supermarkets to make space for their own, more profitable, private-label brands, Aware recently suffered its first product deletion.
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The dirt on being green
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The dirt on being green
Pastimes paid for by the planet
The Sydney Morning Herald
12 June 2010
THE winter migratory pattern of the wealthy Packer clan is the sort of thing to send a chill down the spine of even the most hardened environmentalists.
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Pastimes paid for by the planet
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Pastimes paid for by the planet
Investigation into toxic spill in creek
The West Australian
12 June 2010
The Department of Environment and Conservation is investigating how more than 100,000 litres of toxic waste spewed out of containment tanks at the South Cardup landfill site, south of Perth, yesterday contaminating a local creek.
Australians swindled by ‘fraudulent’ marine park science
ABC Online
11 June 2010
The Australian public is being deceived on the effectiveness of marine parks and other fishing sanctuary zones, according to one of the nation’s leading scientists.
World Cup teams to offset emissions
SBS World News Australia
11 June 2010
LONDON (Reuters) – Over half of the football teams participating in the South African World Cup tournament will offset the carbon dioxide emissions they generate from travel and hotel stays, Swiss offsetter South Pole said on Friday. |
