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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.”
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PM called talks to derail renewable energy
“The Federal Government and fossil-fuel industry executives discussed ways to stifle growing investment in renewable energy projects at a secret meeting earlier this year. Prime Minister John Howard called the meeting on May 6, five weeks before releasing the energy white paper on June 14. The white paper favours massive investment in research to make…
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Howard’s climate policy buried by new report
A new report released today has highlighted the dangers of geosequestration, the Howard Government’s key response to climate change. Not only is this unproven technology more expensive than other options, it would also delay action on greenhouse pollution for decades. Geosequestration, capturing and burying the greenhouse pollution from coal fired power stations, is unproven and…
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Computer sets world speed record
AN IBM machine has reclaimed the title of world’s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese model which caused shock waves within United States government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002. Supercomputing technologies were widely viewed as indicators of national industrial prowess in the 1980s and 1990s. They are used extensively in weapons…
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Patriot Act Unconstitutional
“Surveillance powers granted to the FBI under the Patriot Act, a cornerstone of the Bush Administration’s war on terror, were ruled unconstitutional by a judge on Wednesday in a new blow to U.S. security policies. U.S. District Judge Victor Marreo, in the first decision against a surveillance portion of the act, ruled for the American…
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Oil climbs to a record $50 as analysts see no ceiling
“The price of oil, which has been inexorably rising for the past two years, finally broke through the $50-a-barrel mark Tuesday, reaching a new milestone as some analysts warned that there was nothing to stop prices from rising even further. . Fueling these gains is an exceptional alignment of events: record high demand, historically low…
