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VIDEO: Are Australia's good times at an end?
2015-06-03 01:23:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Australia's latest economic figures are expected to show growth is at its slowest pace in two years, as commodity prices fall and construction drops off.
Global Warming Biggest Risk to Australia's Great Barrier Reef
2015-05-25 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sputnik: Global warming poses the greatest risk to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt, said Monday. "Climate change is the single biggest long-term risk to the reef," Reichelt told a parliamentary inquiry hearing, days before United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization makes a decision on whether the reef will be placed on the "endangered list," as quoted by Financial Review....
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IMO approves Australias South West Coral Sea protection plan
2015-05-19 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved the Australian Government's proposed extension of the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) in order to preserve the South West Coral Sea.
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The financial case against Australia's largest coal mine
2015-05-14 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The case against building Australias largest coal mine has focused on the threats of runaway climate change and ruin of the Great Barrier Reef. But finances may yet prove the key. Leading economists and City analysts are baffled by plans from Indias Adani Group to build the A$16.5bn (8.4bn, $13.2bn) Carmichael mine and Abbot Point port expansion just as coal prices have collapsed. If the Carmichael project fails to convince investors, it could jeopardise plans for at least eight other...
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Australia's Abbott government seeks legal advice on Bjorn Lomborg centre
2015-05-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: The federal government is seeking legal advice on the University of Western Australia's decision not to host a controversial taxpayer-funded research centre. The university ditched a $4 million contract for sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg's Australian Consensus Centre, amid strong backlash from staff, students and the public. Education Minister Christopher Pyne is disappointed and remains committed to opening the centre. "It is surprising that individuals at an institution of higher learning...
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