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Winds of change brewing

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Jo Chandler - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Beddington argues, pragmatically, that while much is uncertain about the longer-term, the challenges of the next 20 years are clear: population growth (another billion people by 2025); urbanisation; and climate change as a consequence of the greenhouse

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Labor standing firm on Pacific trade deal

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - By Adam Gartrell - Mar. 05 (News Report) - The federal government is standing firm against Australian and US business demands that it allow controversial dispute settlement clauses into an ambitious new Pacific free trade deal. Australia is one of nine nations seeking to reach final agreement

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Witches, God, climate change … it's a matter of belief - Sydney Morning Herald

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:56:24 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Oct. 22 - Sydney Morning HeraldWitches, God, climate change … it's a matter of beliefSydney Morning HeraldIt makes the likelihood of a fruitful scientific debate on climate change seem remote, reports Michael Bachelard. The Age has reported that just ''42 per cent of people [in Australia] believe in a wholly scientific explanation for the origins of life'' ...and more »

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Republicans stop at green

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:01:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Sep. 17 - Most Tea Party supporters doubt global warming is real. Photo: Getty Images DAN Snyder is a Republican. But he's not a politician. He owns a football team, the Washington Redskins, and has pledged to fit solar panels on top of the team's Maryland stadium

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Oceans left out of climate debate

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Aug. 08 (News Report) - Oceans have been left out of climate change debate in Australia, the founder of Earthwatch says. Brian Rosborough said the role of oceans and coasts should be given more attention. "Coastal vegetation and oceans which account for 55 per cent of all the c

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China shutters fake Apple stores

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:23:11 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Jul. 25 - CTV.caChina shutters fake Apple storesSydney Morning HeraldThe maker of the iPhone and other hit gadgets has four company stores in China - two in Beijing and two in Shanghai - and various official resellers. The proliferation of the fake stores underlines the slow progress that China's government is making in ...Two fake Apple stores closed in China, report saysCNETApple's Popularity in China Means Smuggling Is a Growing ConcernPC MagazineChina to investigate unauthorized Apple storesWashington PostUSA Today -PCWorldall 1,064 news articles »

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Libyan rebels run riot

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Jul. 13 (News) - Rebels in the mountains in Libya's west have looted and damaged four towns seized from Muammar Gaddafi's forces last month, part of a series of abuses and apparent reprisals against suspected loyalists that have chased residents of these towns away, Human Rights Watch said.

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NATO admits bombing mistake killed civilians

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Ernesto Londono - Jun. 20 (News) - NATO has said that a coalition bomb misfired into a residential neighbourhood of Tripoli and killed civilians, an acknowledgment that is likely to fuel a growing controversy over the West's protracted effort to oust Muammar Gaddafi.

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Taliban's Mullah Omar reported dead

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Ben Doherty - May. 23 (News) - Mullah Omar, the spiritual leader of the Taliban and a former de facto head of state in Afghanistan, has been killed, local reports say.

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Forget the billions, return Jabiluka site to Kakadu, say traditional owners

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Lindsay Murdoch Jabiru - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Warned about the wrath of Djang... Yvonne Margarula, one of the traditional owners from the Mirarr people, in front of an image of her father. Photo: Glenn Campbell ABORIGINAL traditional owners have declared they want the multibillion-dollar Jabiluka ur

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Why we're still split over the atom

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Deborah Smith - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - The Fukushima nuclear crisis will have a lasting impact in Australia. Comfortably reliant on enormous coal reserves - and with Homer Simpson helping shape attitudes to nuclear power - Australia is most unlikely to adopt this energy source to tackle climate change in the near future. Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, with community concerns focused on the hazards of a warming world, there had been signs of a public reconsideration of nuclear as a low-carbon option. But any fledgling support is now likely to evaporate, researchers say. Advertisement: Story continues below Australians have long tended to have polarised views on nuclear energy. And those in each camp still see things very differently after events of the past week in Japan.

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Core issues: worst-case nuclear reactor scenarios

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Glenda Kwek - Mar. 14 (News) - What is the worst that could happen at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor plant?

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Anyone still favour nuclear options for Australia? - Sydney Morning Herald

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:50:40 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Mar. 13 - Anyone still favour nuclear options for Australia?Sydney Morning HeraldTo all those mad fools still clinging to the hope of nuclear energy delivering all our power needs in the future, hang your heads in shame. Access to the most advanced technology and cutting-edge safety standards didn't prevent the Japanese from facing ...and more »

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Polar ice melt raising sea levels rapidly: study

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:06:04 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - Mar. 09 - Mongabay.comPolar ice melt raising sea levels rapidly: studySydney Morning HeraldUnder the current trends, he said, sea level is likely to be "significantly higher" than levels projected by the United Nations climate change panel in 2007. Isabella Velicogna, co-author of the study, said that the ice sheets lose mass by melting or ...Study: Ice sheets melting, sea level rising faster than previously thoughtWashington Post (blog)Earth's ice sheets melting at faster pace, study findsmsnbc.comNASA Finds Polar Ice Adding More to Rising SeasJet Propulsion LaboratoryMongabay.com -LiveScience.comall 39 news articles »

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Arab states rocked by the mouse that roared

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - By Paul McGeough - Jan. 21 (News Report) - IF a 13-year-old boy can get it, why not a 53-year-old woman? As looters stripped the luxury villas of Tunisia's ousted first family last weekend, the boy Fathi was more philosophical than his years, telling a passer-by as he stripped parts from one of the cars of the departed elite: "It's the money of our nation - it's the money of my mother, my father. We just want justice."

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Deadly artillery attack

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - By John Garnaut - Nov. 23 (News Report) - North Korea has burnished the leadership credentials of its 26-year-old dictator-in-waiting with a deadly artillery attack on South Korean territory, causing its neighbour to return fire and scramble F-16 fighters. Two South Korean marines died, and at least 12 were wounded. There were reports of civilian injuries and houses were set ablaze as scores of shells fell on Yeonpyeong island.

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Climate change could add to global stress

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Climate change may not directly start conflicts but it could add to existing stresses and tensions, most likely over access to resources, a top British military officer says.

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Naomi Campbell | Blood diamonds

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:05:23 -0700

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Women are the invisible homeless: Rein

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:57:09 -0700

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Indonesia pays a high price for its corrupt heart

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Govt rejects formal human rights charter

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Apr. 21 (News) - The federal government will not enshrine human rights in a formal charter, rejecting the advice of its own consultation group. Instead Attorney-General Robert McClelland has unveiled a human rights framework during a speech to the National Press Club

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Tax reprieve for savers

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Apr. 20 (Editorial) - Bringing savers into line would erase this inequity between different investment vehicles. This is important because often it is those on lower incomes - students, younger savers, older retirees - who have their money in term deposits and at-call savings accounts. They stand to gain the most from the opportunity to boost savings in midlife, rather than retirement, enabling them to spend more on education or buying a home.

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Crunch time for well-fed cockroach of the world financial system

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Peter Hartcher - Apr. 20 (Comment) - Who was advising the Greek government, knowing it was borrowing way too much, when it decided to hide some of its debt in 2001? It was the vaunted Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs, which showed Greece how to use complex securities to conceal billions in debt in return for about $US300 million in fees. As Greece hit crisis point this year, who was advising it on where to turn for emergency loans, arranging meetings with potential lenders in China and elsewhere? Yes, it was that very same cock of the Wall Street walk, Goldman Sachs. And, finally, who helped set up a big market to bet on whether Greece and other European countries would go broke and default on their debts?

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Stimulus building chief in bid to take over NSW planning

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Matthew Moore - Apr. 19 (News) - THE man in charge of spending $7 billion of federal stimulus funds says the program has been so successful his office should take over most of the state's major planning decisions.... The infrastructure co-ordinator-general and chairman of the NSW National Building and Jobs Plan Taskforce, Bob Leece, says he will lodge a submission...[He] was granted extraordinary powers to bypass planning laws and speed up the spending of federal funds and, despite some ''grumbling'', he saw no reason why such powers could not remain in force permanently.

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Climate change linked to health issues

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Nicky Park - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Climate change is causing drought, frequent storms and increasingly warm weather in the Marshall Islands, that country's acting secretary for health was quoted as saying on Radio New Zealand.

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