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Every vote matters: California district loses bond election by one vote
2016-07-08 19:49:00| American School & University
$40 million request in the General Shafter school district would have passed if one no vote had switched to yes. read more
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Australia faces hung parliament after Malcolm Turnbull suffers stunning election setback
2016-07-03 04:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Malcolm Turnbull, the leader of Australia's ruling conservative coalition, faces an uncertain future after suffering a stunning setback in a general election on Saturday which could leave the country with a hung parliament. Despite pledging to provide stability, Mr Turnbull, a former Rhodes Scholar and investment banker, opted two months ago to hold on an early election - a political gamble which appears to have spectacularly backfired. With about 70 per cent of votes counted, Mr Turnbull's...
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Greens ponder Australian election vote that will probably not lead to gains
2016-07-03 01:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Greens are struggling to pick up extra lower house seats targeted in Sydney and Melbourne where supporters were hoping for an upset and look set to return to parliament with the same number of senators the party had in the previous term. Melbourne MP Adam Bandt was comfortably elected for a third time but as it stands he remains the lone Green in the House of Representatives, while in the Senate, the party has lost Robert Simms in South Australia but looks to gain a Senator in Queensland....
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This election, what hope is there for the Great Barrier Reef?
2016-07-01 08:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If the Great Barrier Reef is an election issue for you, then before you head to the polls this weekend, here are a few things worth noting about the major parties policies. Firstly, by way of background, remember that almost a quarter of the reef was killed by warm waters this year, in the worst bleaching event on record. And those water temperatures are expected to be average temperatures within 20 years. To give the reef a fighting chance of surviving that, scientists estimate $10bn needs to...
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Will election see parties reach a consensus on climate, clean energy?
2016-06-27 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Renew Economy: Irrespective of who wins the next election, the 2016-19 parliament will play a key role in shaping Australias long-term climate policy framework, with policymakers likely to work towards a bi-partisan policy framework prior to the conclusion of the Kyoto Protocol in 2020 in order to provide greater policy certainty going into the post-2020 period. While bi-partisanship rarely means agreement on all policy levers, consensus on key structural design factors such as the mechanism itself (ETS or...
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