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Heatwaves hurt disadvantaged Australians hardest
2014-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Bill McKenzie stands in the corridor on the eighth floor of the government housing complex where he lives, pointing accusingly at a thermometer fastened to the wall. He explains that at 4pm on January 17, as Melbourne sweltered through one of south-east Australia's worst heatwaves, the thermometer read 43 degrees hotter than it was outside. A short, wiry man with a shaved head, McKenzie is wearing a brown long-sleeved T-shirt, reading glasses strung around his neck. In his apartment,...
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Australians 'priced out of housing'
2014-03-05 09:58:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Many Australians face a lifetime of renting as Chinese buyers push up property prices, a report by Credit Suisse says.
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Australians well placed in India
2014-03-01 05:06:20| Steel - Topix.net
New Delhi, February 27: Rashid Khan of India overcame a double bogey to shoot a three-under-par 69 as he kept a firm grip of the season-opening SAIL-SBI Open presented by Incredible India at the halfway stage on Thursday.
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Regional Australians honoured for service
2014-01-27 01:43:53| Livestock - Topix.net
Rural and regional Australians have been recognised for their services to their industries and communities, and to improving health in regional areas, in the Australia Day Honours for 2014.
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Are most Australians really climate "agnostics"?
2014-01-19 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Former Prime Minister John Howard claimed Australians had "settled into a state of sustained agnosticism" on climate change. Is this true? Share Tweet this Email John Howard speaks at a press conference in London with Global Warming Policy Foundation director Benny Peiser, left. Photograph: Julian Drape/AAP Last year, former conservative Australian prime minister John Howard gave a speech at the climate-change denying Global Warming Policy Foundation in London. In his speech, he derided climate...
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