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Australia: Maules Creek mine halted as protesters chain themselves to bulldozers
2014-01-28 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Work at a controversial coalmine in northern New South Wales has been stopped by protesters who say the project will destroy a forest and its sacred Aboriginal cultural and burial sites. More than 120 people have blockaded four entries at Whitehaven Coal's $767m Maules Creek project, near Boggabri, and attached themselves to 13 bulldozers. Protesters from Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and the Hunter Valley have joined locals in the protest, among them blind 91-year-old Kokoda veteran Bill Ryan...
Australia: Climate change is spoken of in hushed tones, but it wasn't always this way
2014-01-27 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is a term that is not generally used in polite company in the bush. That term is climate change. To an outsiders eyes, it might seem to be counterintuitive. Here are people whose living is mostly dependent on the vagaries of the weather. Yet you will hear more conversation about climate change at a city dinner party than a lazy Sunday afternoon lunch in the bush. The publicly reported attitudes to climate change in rural Australia have been just as confusing. That is, rural Australians...
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Australia: Direct action risks failure if the RET is scrapped, Coalition warned
2014-01-27 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government has been told its signature "direct action" climate policy could lock small business out of funding to improve energy efficiency, and create broader risks for the economy in terms of growth, technological innovation and job creation. The Coalition has also been warned explicitly that the success or otherwise of direct action is co-dependent on what other policies and regulations remain in place particularly the renewable energy target (RET) that the prime minister has...
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Wool Prices in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand (Weekly Report)
2014-01-24 21:36:28| EmergingTextiles.com
Wool prices this week rebounded in Australia, wiping out the previous decline of the first two weeks of the year. Our weekly report delivers a comprehensive view of wool prices in Australia, with a long list of micron types in A$, US$ and euro terms. Historical charts are also available, such as downloadable historical data. A glimpse on the New Zealand and South African markets is provided.
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Australia: Heatwave blamed for large spike in the number of deaths in Victoria last week
2014-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The heatwave that baked large parts of south-eastern Australia last week is being blamed for a large spike in the number of deaths in Victoria. More than 203 deaths were reported to the coroner, more than twice the average. The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine expects the number of deaths to reach that of the unprecedented heatwave in 2009, which is thought to have killed more than 370 people in Victoria alone. Temperatures across the south-eastern states regularly pushed above 40C...
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