Australia Pledges $10 Million in Aid to Zimbabwe

Every now and then I'll hear something in the news that makes me proud that I am from Australia.  Today Australia is pledging aid and money to those less fortunate in Zimbabwe. Australia has an embassy in...

Parting gifts for Bush's brothers in arms

George W. Bush awarded America's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom, to three other world leaders who supported his invasion of Iraq yesterday: former UK prime minister Tony Blair, former...

Tony Blair to be awarded US Medal of Freedom

Former Prime Ministers, Tony Blair og the UK, Australian John Howard and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will all be awarded the highest civilian award in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom By...

APEC leaders promise to support RI as UNFCCC president

"The leaders of 21 APEC member countries have promised to give full support to Indonesia as president of the 13rd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be...

President Yudhoyono and 20 APEC leaders meet at Sydney Opera House

"On the first day of the meeting, the APEC leaders will meet with APEC Business Advisory Council before having lunch at Bennelong restaurant at 12.15. Howard said he would like to see the APEC leaders reaching a...

RI President to have bilateral meetings with seven APEC leaders

"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will have bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the United States, Chile, Mexico, Australia, Papua New Guinea, China, and South Korea on the sidelines of the APEC forum...

Asia-Pacific predicted to see big rise in greenhouse gases

Sydney (ANTARA News) - Economic growth in Pacific rim countries will increase emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming by 130 percent by 2050, a new Australian study released Sunday...

APEC meeting to focus on climate change, US stalls, political bluster to prevail

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is meeting this week in Australia and according to the conference chair, the goal will be to reach a consensus on a greenhouse gas emissions strategy. "We have here...

At last, the truth about Iraq

Australians may have enjoyed the spectacle of the prime minister of their country contradicting his own defence minister about the reasons for Australia's militarily inconsequential but enthusiastically willing...

John Howard and the children of the desert

“We cannot imagine that the descendants of people whose genius and resilience maintained a culture here through 50 000 years or more, through cataclysmic changes to the climate and environment, and who then...

Global warming: whatever happened to common sense?

    There is a deadly secret lurking behind all the gabble gobble going on around the world today about global warming. The knowledge is seeping through to us turkeys that our planet has at...

Unions target marginal seats

Australian Unions have launched an unprecedented pre-election assault on the federal industrial relations laws, concentrating almost a third of their resources in Queensland. As part of a large-scale campaign to throw out the Howard Government, Australia's peak union body...

Thousands at Irwin memorial event

"More than 5,000 people have attended a memorial service for the Australian television naturalist, Steve Irwin, who was killed two weeks ago."

Memorial of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Video Links Included

 A Memorial for Steve Irwin was held today in his family owned zoo. The likes of Australian PM John Howard, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Cameron Diaz, The Wiggles, Larry King, Justin Timberlake, Hugh...

Harper Says No Nukes For India

"Finally the Harpocrite government has decided to take a stand in opposition to the U.S. In this case over the USA's new found nuclear alliance with India."

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