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Australia Probes Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Over High Prices
2013-02-11 17:34:53| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Australian officials are looking into whether Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe charge too much for their products in the region.
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Australia: Hostility over climate change cools off
2013-02-11 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Venomous attacks against the scientific community have markedly decreased since the introduction of Labor's carbon pricing scheme, one of Australia's leading climate change experts says. Professor Will Steffen, science adviser to the Department of Climate Change, also told senators on Monday that extreme weather events this summer weren't normal but "a climate on steroids". Labor senator Doug Cameron told Professor Steffen he'd detected a drop in the public "venom" against climate change in...
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Australia summons technology giants
2013-02-11 06:35:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Adobe are called by the Australian parliament to appear before a committee looking at pricing levels.
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Australia helps Kiribati on climate change
2013-02-11 05:37:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3News NZ: Australia will give $18.5 million (A$15 million) to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati towards the cost of rebuilding a main road damaged by rising sea levels. Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr who is visiting Kiribati says fixing the road will ensure people can get to schools, health clinics and markets. "Kiribati is at the front line of climate change," Senator Carr said in a statement on Monday, adding its highest point is now just three metres above sea level. Without help in the...
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Australia home loan approvals slide
2013-02-11 05:03:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Home loan approvals in Australia decline for a third straight month despite moves by the central bank to lower the cost of borrowing.
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