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Will Australia's new prime minister do better on climate change?
2015-09-14 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: Australia's controversial prime minister, Tony Abbott, has been ousted from office by his own party, the center-right Liberals. He has been replaced with Malcolm Turnbull, a former lawyer and journalist, who has promised voters a "thoroughly Liberal' government, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, replete with "new economic vision committed to freedom, the individual, and the market.' Those are troubling words for anyone familiar with Australia's policy on climate change in recent years. The...
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Australia's Victorian Government presents new initiatives to boost Ballarat line
2015-09-14 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Australia's Victorian Government is planning to implement a series of initiatives to boost capacity and reliability of services on the Ballarat line, in the wake of significant patronage growth, and network changes.
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Australia's Amphibious Ready Element participates in Sea Series of exercises
2015-09-10 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The Amphibious Ready Element onboard the Australian Royal Navy's HMAS Canberra has participated in Exercise Sea Explorer in Far North Queensland.
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August's top stories: HMS Queen Elizabeths radar, Australia's $65bn investment
2015-09-10 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The UK Royal Navy's Elizabeth-class (QE) aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has switched on the vessel's S1850M radar for the first time and Australia is to invest $65bn on naval shipbuilding projects over 20 years. Naval-technology.com wraps up
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Chair of Australia's Climate Change Authority Resigns
2015-09-09 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The chair of the Abbott government's climate change advice agency, Bernie Fraser, has resigned without explanation. It comes less than a month after Mr Fraser issued a strong rebuke to the Abbott government over its justifications of its post-2020 greenhouse emissions targets. A statement issued by the Climate Change Authority late on Tuesday said Mr Fraser, a respected former Reserve Bank governor and Treasury chief, had quit as chair. His term was not due to end until 2017. No further explanation...
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