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Australia - ISA Country Report
2014-08-04 02:00:00| Beverage industry market research - from just-drinks.com
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US, UK and Australia drivers positive but concerned about autonomous vehicles
2014-08-03 16:30:38| Green Car Congress
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Australia: Hawke: Nuclear waste storage could end indigenous disadvantage
2014-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia could end the disadvantage endured by its Indigenous population by opening up traditional lands as dumping sites for nuclear waste from around the world, a former prime minister, Bob Hawke, has said. Hawke said he was confident that the answer to long-standing indigenous socioeconomic problems was to allow radioactive waste to be stored on Aboriginal land, and use the revenue to improve living standards. Speaking at the Indigenous Garma festival in the Northern Territory, Hawke said...
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Forgotten plight Australia Torres Strait islanders: land is being swallowed by rising sea
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The islands which dot the sparkling waters of the Torres Strait, off the far north-east of Australia, were the birthplace of indigenous land rights. In 1992, five islanders led by Eddie Mabo won a landmark High Court case which erased the notion that Australia was unoccupied when the British arrived. But more than two decades on, the land for which they fought is being swallowed by the sea. The low-lying islands some of them closer to Papua New Guinea than the Australian mainland are at risk...
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Australia launches 'Green Army' for environment
2014-08-02 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia on Saturday launched its 'Green Army' which plans to recruit up to 15,000 young people for projects to conserve and rehabilitate the environment -- the biggest land care mobilisation in the nation's history. Under the scheme, teams of young people will do work such as planting trees, restoring koala habitats, cleaning up creeks and rivers, conserving cultural heritage sites and monitoring threatened species. "The Green Army is on the march from today," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told...
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