Labor for Refugees: how campaigners shifted policy #L4R
As boatloads of asylum seekers began to arrive in Australian waters in 1999, John Howard cranked up the repression and the anti-refugee rhetoric. Tragically, but perhaps [...more]
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Lies told about Climate Change
Chief climate commissioner Tim Flannery says Australians have been misled by “lies” about global efforts to tackle climate change, but they’re increasingly [...more]
Cause for optimism in Australia on global warming and #CarbonPrice
Carbon pricing schemes across the world. THE carbon price puts Australia, the world’s 15th-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, in the middle of the international pack [...more]
Al Gore praises Australia on #ClimateChange measures
Former US Vice President Al Gore Photo: KACPER PEMPEL The Gillard government’s carbon price has already “inspired the world” to press ahead with measures to [...more]
Disappearing Arctic Ice via #Climatechange
It looks as if 2012 will set a new record low for Arctic ice extent[1]. As a measure of the impact of global warming, this is depressingly clear-cut. There’s no need to go [...more]
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