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Howard’s power to deregulate
Australia is bracing itself for a renewed round of conservative reform following Prime Minister John Howard’s fourth election victory, handing him power not enjoyed by any Government for more than two decades. The unexpected surge in support that defied earlier polling and increased his majority in the House of Representatives also appears likely to allow…
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NEWS.com.au | Your say: Election 2004
Some interesting comments on the election result from ordinary Australians. (And edited by News Corp)
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Howard won’t keep promises: Labor
A LABOR frontbencher today predicted Prime Minister John Howard would split his election policies into core and non-core promises and said the government was not straight with Australians. Mr Howard yesterday told reporters the government would fulfil all the promises it had made during the election campaign but opposition science spokesman Kim Carr questioned his…
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Greens blame greed, ignorance
VOTER ignorance, greed and apathy returned the Coalition to government, a South Australian Greens MP said today. Kris Hanna, a former state Labor backbencher who joined the Greens last year, today said he was disappointed with the majority of Australian voters. ‘(Labor Leader Mark) Latham did his best to offer an alternative but too many…
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Coalition policy disaster for Tassie’s old growth forests
The Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace today slammed the Coalition’s policy announcement on Tasmania’s forests as a disaster that fails to fully protect forests or to provide a long term future for forest workers. “The Coalition’s forest policy is nothing more than a logging plan with a conservation figleaf” said Don Henry, Executive…
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www.greens.org.au – Labor’s forests breakthrough welcomed
Download ‘Tasmania’s Forests: the Way Forward’, the Greens’ plan to save Tasmania’s forests and create jobs (PDF, 462KB) The Greens have welcomed Labor’s plan to put a one-year moratorium on 240,000 hectares of Tasmania’s high conservation value forests. “This is a great breakthrough. Labor has taken a lead,” Greens Senator Bob Brown said. “There is…
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Australian Labor Party: Labor’s Plan to Save Tasmania’s High Conservation Value Forests
Download Policy Document – Labor’s Plan to Save Tasmania’s High Conservation Value Forests – 399 Kbytes The forests of Tasmania are one of Australia’s greatest natural assets. A Federal Labor Government will protect Tasmania’s high conservation-value old growth forests, rainforests and other ecosystems. The Tasmanian community has identified the state’s high conservation-value old growth forests,…
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SpaceShipOne Wins $10 Million Prize
“The world’s first privately funded manned spacecraft soared to the blackened frontiers of space for the second time in a week on Monday, setting set a new altitude record and clinching a $10 million prize designed to spur commercial space travel SpaceShipOne, a stubby, three-seat rocket plane, hurtled to a height of 367,442 feet surpassing…
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Subsidy offered ‘to take Greenpeace to court’
The federal government offered a $36.4 million subsidy to shale oil company Southern Pacific Petroleum (SPP) in exchange for the company taking Greenpeace to court, the environmental group said today. Greenpeace said it had obtained a departmental email which referred to a 2002 cabinet decision to provide SPP with the subsidy each year if it…
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Thousands march against Howard
“THOUSANDS of people from a variety of community and political groups took to the streets today as part of a nationwide ‘End the Lies’ campaign to oust the Howard government.”