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UPDATE 1-Australia govt secures carbon deal with opposition Reuters India CANBERRA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Australian government has reached a deal with opposition leaders on a revised carbon-trade scheme, which will go before...
MICHELLE GRATTAN, TOM ARUP November 24, 2009 - 12:43PM The Rudd Government has offered a generous package of extra help to electricity generators, coal miners, and other affected industries to lure the Opposition into voting...
MICHELLE GRATTAN, TOM ARUP November 24, 2009 - 2:18PM The Opposition’s former climate change spokesman, Andrew Robb, says the emissions trading deal isn’t good enough, dealing a severe blow to Malcolm Turnbull’s authority on...
The assistant Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says if the Coalition needs extra time to debate the emissions trading scheme issue then something might be fashioned. Greg Combet insists the Government has conducted...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his senior ministers are appealing to the Opposition to put its divisions aside and vote for an amended emissions trading scheme. The Government's final deal will be presented to the Opposition...
AUSTRALIA'S defence chiefs have firmly backed the RAAF's planned $16 billion investment in the joint strike fighter, with cabinet's national security committee due to consider a go-ahead for the fifth generation aircraft today....
The Prime Minister and his senior ministers have appealed to the Opposition to accept the deal that will be presented to them on an emissions trading scheme. The Government says if the scheme is passed it would be a momentous...
Officials Call The System A "Major Training Milestone" The Royal Australian Air Force said Wednesday that it has received a C-17 Heavy Airlifter Simulator from Boeing, the first such system to be owned by a foreign government.
THE national security committee of cabinet will consider this week whether to go ahead with Australia's biggest defence contract - spending at least $16 billion on 100 Joint Strike Fighters - or to delay the purchase because of...
Soldiers are mainly developing addictions to cocaine, a drug which is "as cheap as chips" in Afghanistan / File DIGGERS are using cocaine, heroin and other hard drugs while on tours of duty in Afghanistan and are returning home...
