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Climate Change May Lead To A Sunken Australia

Posted 12.07.2009 | World

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By Sonia Ulliana , GlobalPost GOLD COAST, Australia -- The prediction is dire. Coastal towns will be left to fall into the sea by governments in ...

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Commonwealth Leaders Call For Ambitious, "Legally Binding" Climate Change Deal

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green

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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change ...

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Kevin Rudd, Australian PM, Apologizes For Kids Shipped From Britain To Colonies

AP | ROD McGUIRK and JILL LAWLESS | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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CANBERRA, Australia — When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told...

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Learning from Down Under: Where Labor Policy is Center Stage

Thomas Kochan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Policy, Labor Policy, Labor, Biden Middle Class Task Force, Australia, Fair Work Act, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Employment Relations Systems, Australia Labor Government, Australian Labor Law, Australia Labor Laws, Politics News
Thomas Kochan

Our friends down under have set a benchmark for the U.S. We don't usually look beyond our boarders for lessons on domestic policy, but Australia has recognized employment relations as central to economic vitality.

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Ferry Sinks Off Tonga; Dozens Missing

AP | PESI FONUA | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

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NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga — Giving women and children the comfort of cabins while men stayed on deck may have doomed them to be trapped inside an overni...

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Stern Hu Detained In China, Australia Moves Cautiously In Effort To Free Executive

nytimes.com | MERAIAH FOLEY | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Rio Tinto, China Australia, Stern Hu China, Australia, Stern Hu, Kevin Rudd, Australia China, Rio Tinto China, China, World News

SYDNEY, Australia The government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been walking a political tightrope since the detention last week of an Australian mi...

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Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Hits On Australian Prime Minister

AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment

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SYDNEY — British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new character has a thing for Australia's wonkish prime minister. Baron Cohen, once better known ...

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Afghanistan: Australia To Send 450 More Troops

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia announced Wednesday it will increase by almost one half its troops in Afghanistan to about 1,550 as part of the ...

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Alison Woodhead: Brown's Busiest Day

G20Voice | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

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G20Voice

Gordon Brown repeatedly made the point that Thursday is part of a process of building a new economy; not an attempt to solve it all in one day.

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Obama, Rudd Talks Focus On Economic Crisis

The West Australian | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

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US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reaffirmed the close Australia-US alliance during a 70-minute meeting at the White House on Tu...

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Obama, Kevin Rudd Meet To Discuss Joint Role In Afghanistan

The Age | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has hinted Australia could expand its role training Afghan security forces, if the US wants us to make a greater contributio...

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Reconciliation Through Art: Video Premiere of "Apology (It's Time)"

Russell James | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Australia Aboriginals, Australia, Aborigines, Reconciliation, Kevin Rudd, World News
Russell James

One year ago tomorrow, Kevin Rudd, on his first day of office, officially apologized to the Indigenous people of Australia for 200 years of oppression. This speech was the impetus for this video.

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Australian Wildfires Called An Act Of "Mass Murder" By Prime Minister

AP | TANALEE SMITH | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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WHITTLESEA, Australia — Disaster teams found charred bodies on roadsides and in crashed cars _ grim signs of the futile attempt to flee raging w...

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Cooked Goose

David Horton | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Poznan, Denialists, Greenhouse Gas Targets, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Kevin Rudd, Green News
David Horton

If you thought that electing Obama was going to lead to action on global warming you might take a look at this week's events in Australia.

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The Meaning of Obama's Election for China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Financial Crisis, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, Race, China, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess

This has been a tough year for China. Between the Sichuan earthquake, the Tibetan protests, and the frightening melamine poisonings of thousands of infants, the glories of the successful Beijing Games were muted. It has hardly been the triumphant year top officials hoped for.

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South Australia 10 Years Ahead Of Renewable Energy Target

Treehugger | Warren McLaren | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Australia Wind Power, Australia, Australia Renewable Energy, South Australia, Kevin Rudd, Wind Turbines, Green Energy, S Renewable Energy, Green News

The ninth wind farm in South Australia just opened on the Barunga Ranges near Snowtown. Its 47 turbines, installed by Trust Power of New Zealand, (who...

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Scientists Urge Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd To Change Climate Plan

AFP | Posted 10.30.2008 | Green

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SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's leading climate change scientists Monday pleaded with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to override his top adviser on the issue an...

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Five Things We Wish George W. Bush Would Read Before His Olympic Visit to China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Tibet Protests, Beijing Olympics, Cnn, Kevin Rudd, George W. Bush, China Olympics, Olympic Torch, Mao Zedong, China, China Tibet, China Human Rights, China Earthquake, Olympics, Media News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess

In recognition of the limited time he has before departing for Beijing, we've put together a brief list of the best recent China writing on the Web.

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Exclusive: 51% Of Americans Believe IOC Was Wrong to Award Olympics to China

David Weiner | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Brown, China Products, Beijing Pollution, Polls, Kevin Rudd, Justine Henin, China, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympics Boycott, Politics News
David Weiner

According to a new poll, American public opinion about the Olympic Games, China, and the perceived actions of the host country has changed very little since the Sichuan earthquake.

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Australian PM John Howard Loses Election

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conservative Prime Minister John Howard, Australian Prime Minister, John Howard Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Warwire, Politics News

Conservative Prime Minister John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat Saturday at the hands of the left-leaning opposition, whose leader has promised ...

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