With the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission's Interim Report tabled last month, it is now up to various state governments and the federal government to respond quickly to save lives when the next catastrophic fires happen.
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After two years of controversy, community hostility and political debate, the Queensland government has finally provided the federal environment department with a draft set of conditions under which it believes the planned Traveston Dam can proceed.
Britain-based risk analysts Maplecroft confirmed that Australia is the world鈥檚 worst polluter per capita in a September 9 report.
Workers at the Campbell's Soup factory at Shepparton in Victoria have delivered a setback to the federal Labor government's plan to apply individual contracts by stealth.
Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is the name of a World Bank sponsored carbon offset program. The idea is to pay owners of forests in the global South to stop deforestation as a way of reducing carbon emissions.
In 1978, John Reid, chair of James Hardie Industries, boasted: 鈥淓very time you walk into an office building, a home, a factory; every time you put your foot on the brake, ride in a train 鈥 the chances are that a product from the James Hardie group of companies has a part in it鈥.
The NSW state government is introducing police powers similar to those during the APEC meeting in Sydney in 2007.
A Colombian human rights group has accused the Australia Federal Police (AFP) of illegally interrogating political prisoner Liliany Obando in a Bogata jail.
Battlelines
By Tony Abbott
Melbourne University Press, 2009
$34.99, 187 pages
In 2008, Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett promised voters the ALP state government would no longer guarantee financial support to forestry giant Gunns鈥 unpopular pulp mill proposal for the Tamar Valley, near Launceston.
In July, the suicide of a 14-year-old girl brought attention to an appallingly under-reported issue 鈥 mental health among young people and youth suicide.
鈥滻 feel very sad to be leaving, but happy and proud to receive your great gift of solidarity with the people of Venezuela and Latin America鈥, Daniel Sanchez, a community leader from Valencia, Venezuela, told an audience of 50 at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) hall on September 17.
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