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Malcolm Turnbull wooing South Australian votes with gifts for the incompetent
2016-03-11 06:45:58| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
With Barnaby Joyce being challenged by Tony Windsor for the seat of New England, there's no shortage of money being showered around by the federal government. Michael Pascoe reports.
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Australia: Malcolm Turnbull lifts Abbott ban govt finance for wind power
2015-12-13 03:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Malcolm Turnbull has lifted the ban imposed by Tony Abbott on wind investment by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) before it was officially enacted, even though it remains Coalition policy to abolish the green bank. A spokeswoman for the prime minister said the new CEFC investment mandate issued by the environment minister, Greg Hunt, and the finance minister, Mathias Cormann reflected the Turnbull governments strong support for renewables and innovation. The mandate puts...
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Turnbull innovation statement's biomedical fund boosts CSL's Aussie R&D appetite
2015-12-10 19:02:58| Biotech - Topix.net
Biotech giant CSL said it will do more research in Australia following the Turnbull government's creation of a $250 million fund to translate basic biomedical research into commercial products. After the fund was announced this week as part of Prime Minister Turnbull's innovation agenda , the $40 billion blood products company said it was a big step in the right direction.
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Turnbull says Shortens heroic climate target aimed making political point
2015-11-29 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Labors target on climate change is heroic and aimed at making a political point rather than helping the environment, the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said. Turnbull is one of the nearly 150 world leaders who will be discussing post-2020 emissions reductions targets at a key United Nations climate conference in Paris, due to begin on Monday. He takes with him the governments target of a 26% to 28% cut of 2005 levels by 2030, a target announced by Turnbulls predecessor, Tony Abbott,...
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Australia: Turnbull government spends big on emissions cuts, but falls short on targets: Critics
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Almost half the money the Turnbull government has set aside to pay for emissions cuts has now been committed, after a further $557 million was spent under the second auction of its emissions reduction fund. But the auction results that were released on Thursday have again sparked criticism from policy observers, who said they showed the fund would achieve only a small proportion of the emissions cuts needed to meet Australia's international climate targets. Projects that won contracts under the...
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