Search Results: coal mining
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ENVIRONMENT
- H. A. Willis
- 08 December 2010
4 Comments
Like most small settlements along major highways, Eneabba is now bypassed, and reached via a side road. The company responsible for what will be one of Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power stations insists that 'prevailing winds will favour non-populated areas to the east and west'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 October 2010
6 Comments
Last week the BRW Young Rich List appeared. Judging by the profiles that go with lists, listed people are a boring lot. They tend to take seriously activities that don't contribute much to human happiness. Many of the wealthy young made nothing, except a pile of money through property and hedge funds.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Tony Kevin
- 29 September 2010
6 Comments
If the Gillard Government manages to serve a full term, there is a good chance that Parliament will pass a well-designed, effective national carbon pricing policy into law in 2012. This would be a major policy success that Gillard could legitimately boast of going into a 2013 full-term election.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 September 2010
5 Comments
Deals struck between Prime Minister Gillard and Independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott saw hospitals in their electorates receive preferential treatment ahead of regions with greater needs. Pork-barrelling has always been part of politics, but that does not make it any less of a scandal.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 30 August 2010
10 Comments
Though the Independents are raising
expectations about a 'new politics', the forces behind the status quo are strong and the public is fickle. If
they fail to deliver they might eventually suffer a
backlash, like Kevin Rudd and the Democrats before them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 24 August 2010
22 Comments
There was a massive loss of confidence in Labor's policies. The Australian electorate saw through the triviality of what both major parties were offering. Gillard would deserve her party's full support in leading a Labor Government in a hung parliament. This may be the making of her as a great prime minister.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bruce Duncan
- 06 August 2010
The election has been plagued by trivial spats and personality conflicts, to the neglect of policies based on the values of equity and social justice for everyone. This reinforces the importance of church and community groups
being more active in their social advocacy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 30 July 2010
7 Comments
The current kind of content-free campaigning, appealing to popular
biases and stereotypes, has real
consequences for the social services sector and the people they serve.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 July 2010
3 Comments
It seems appropriate that Jason Akermanis was sacked in the middle of an election campaign. The tensions between conflicting interests that led to his sacking have also been exhibited in the election campaign. But in politics they have been negotiated much more disreputably.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Jeffrey Nicholls
- 09 July 2010
3 Comments
Every year we mine about a billion tonnes of iron ore. If we keep this
up for five billion years, we will have dug up the whole earth to a
depth of about 10 km. Here is a guide to how human existence might continue until the sun dies.
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AUSTRALIA
We have just experienced a Shakespearean moment. There is real excitement in the land, a sense of new beginnings, as the Elizabethan figure of Julia Gillard takes the reins as Prime Minister. Rudd, to his credit, has accepted the inevitable with grace and dignity.
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AUSTRALIA
If there is any vestige of democratic socialism left in Labor, the Gillard Government needs to raise taxes without
apology, knowing its social welfare policies are just and
necessary. It also needs to remain committed to redistributing wealth to eliminate huge discrepancies in living standards.
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