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  • AUSTRALIA

    Emissions targets must help those affected

    • Michael Mullins
    • 12 December 2007

    In working through the maze of economic and scientific dilemmas at the UN climate change meeting, looking at the faces of the world's poor is not a bad way to start. In the past, solutions to ecological problems have often been directed to needs other than those of the people most directly affected.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Don't make the poor pay more to fight climate change

    • Michael Mullins
    • 02 April 2007
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    While the climate change debate has largely focused on how a levy might hurt the economy, the St Vincent de Paul Society has raised concerns about the financial impact on households on low incomes or living in disadvantaged communities.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Geoffrey Laity
    • 09 July 2006

    Farmers and water

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cut price care

    • Francis Sullivan
    • 26 June 2006

    The Howard government wants a different Medicare: one where people who can, pay more to visit a doctor. The government is grappling with a complex economic issue, but should not dismiss the social benefits that Medicare delivers to the very sick and less well off.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Annelise Balsamo, Gordon Lewis, Juliette Hughes
    • 24 June 2006

    Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.

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