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Sunday, 06 July 2008

Protect families from Rudd: Nelson  Comments

Brendan Nelson | AAP

5/07/2008 3:00:00 PM. There are calls for low income households to be protected from high petrol and electricity prices under climate change reforms.

Australian families are making choices about whether they'll put another $10 of petrol in the car or buy a leg of lamb, that's what it's got down to. Federal opposition leader Brendan Nelson

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PM committed to saving the Murray Darling  Comments

Murray Darling | AAP

5/07/2008 5:03:00 PM. The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited the Murray-Darling basin today as he begin selling the federal governments $4bn rescue plan.

If you want to see an example of stress from climate change and where it could go over time then look at what's behind us here in terms of the Murray Darling system. The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

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Unions wade into the climate change debate  Comments

Sharan Burrow | AAP

4/07/2008 7:04:00 PM. Unions are warning that wages and jobs will be lost if Australia does not embrace an emissions trading scheme.

If they sit outside, if they continue to not want to be part of the effort, then we'll lose those jobs because others around the word will be ahead of us with new technologies with world best standards. ACTU president Sharan Burrow

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We are doing our best to save the Murray: Rudd  Comments

Murray River | Getty

4/07/2008 12:40:00 PM. An historic plan to save the Murray Darling basin is the next best thing to rain, according to the Prime Minister.

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A 50:50 chance North Pole free of ice this Summer  Comments

arctic | aap

27/06/2008 10:00:00 PM. The North Pole could be totally free of ice this summer if the dire predictions of a climate change scientist come to fruition.

From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water. Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre

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Opposition hot and cold on climate change  Comments

Anthony Albanese | MNN

25/06/2008 7:49:00 PM. Labor's Anthony Albanese has accused the Opposition of being inconsistent on climate change, saying they have 'more positions than the Kama Sutra" on the issue.

Six positions he's put forward on climate change. More positions than the Kama Sutra. Anthony Albanese

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Lower income households won't suffer to carbon trading: Wong  Comments

Energy plant | Getty

24/06/2008 2:30:00 PM. Fears that households will suffer under a future Carbon Trading Scheme, will be addressed by the federal government.

Those issues are of critical concern to the protection of the species but the IWC has proved itself to be totally out of touch in reality with conserving this great species. Opposition environment spokeswoman Sharman Stone

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We need climate change action, right now: Prof Ross Garnaut  Comments

Ross Garnaut | AAP

4/07/2008 3:14:00 PM. An effective response to climate change must take shape and be in place in the next few years, the federal government's top climate change adviser, Prof Ross Garnaut, says.

While an effective response to the challenge would play out over the many decades, it must take shape and be in place over the next few years. Professor Ross Garnaut, government's climate change advisor

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Forging ahead: Wong uncompromising on environment agenda  Comments

Penny Wong | AAP

3/07/2008 10:25:00 AM. The federal government is forging ahead with its plan to dramatically boost renewable energy, in what will be a double whammy for electricity prices.

I have no doubt that this is a really complex issue and the policy we want to implement is complex and that's why we need a good dialogue with Australian people going forward. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong

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Govt's climate change science wrong... it's actually much worse: report  

Climate change | Getty

2/07/2008 3:38:00 PM. Politicians may have got the science on climate change wrong and don't realise how bad the situation is.

Participants in policy processes often rely on data that do not fully account for these (climate) feedbacks. New climate report

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Government guarantees low-income earners will be compensated under ETS  

2/07/2008 2:16:00 PM. The federal government says it will compensate low-income families under an emissions trading scheme.

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Krudd says we, the poor families will be compensated for price hikes? Yeah right, it's so easy to remember the last time i was compensated... nick macdonald, maryborough on Protect families from Rudd: Nelson

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