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Australia switches off final analogue free-to-air TV signal
2013-12-10 09:00:40| Digital TV News
Australia has completed its switchover from analog to digital-only television. The last of Australia's analogue free-to-air television signals were switched off in Melbourne and communities in Remote Central and Eastern Australia.
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Climate Council warns Australia brace for more raging bushfires, longer heatwaves
2013-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: The Climate Council has warned Australia to prepare for more frequent and intense bushfires. The council, which was formerly funded by the Australian government before Prime Minister Tony Abbott scrapped the body, will release its report concerning the risks of bushfires. The Climate Council's chief Tim Flannery said that although bushfires in Australia are nothing new, there was a growing possibility that more will happen in the future. Mr Flannery said climate change will increase the risk of...
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Australia: Firefighter numbers 'need to double by 2030 as climate change bites'
2013-12-09 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Australian fire services will need to double their numbers of boots on the ground by 2030 to cope with the increased bushfire risk caused by climate change, a new report says. Be Prepared: The Changing Climate and Australia's Bushfire Threat is the first report from the privately funded Climate Council, born out of the axed Climate Commission. At the report's launch in Sydney on Monday, co-author Professor Lesley Hughes warned the "context" of fire in Australia was changing. "We've had since...
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Australia: Tackling climate change and changing energy systems
2013-12-09 06:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: "Avoiding a climate crisis, while meeting a growing demand of energy services, is one of the most challenging issues humanity is facing today," says Dr Malte Meinshausen, Senior Researcher at the Melbourne School of Earth Sciences. Dr Meinshausen is also Co-ordinator of Melbourne`s newly launched Australian-German College of Climate & Energy Transitions (TRACE), a collaboration between the University of Melbourne and German partners the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the...
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IMTFS opens new packaging manufacturing facility in Brisbane, Australia
2013-12-09 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
IMT Food Services (IMTFS), an Australia-based food packaging supplier, has announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility at Eagle Farm in Brisbane.
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