
Australia's government is absent as the SS Sea Shepherd faces up against the odds in the nastiest confrontation ever between whalers and whale protectors in the Southern Ocean. "This is a whaling war with Kevin Rudd missing from action," Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said in Hobart today...

The Australian Greens have today written to the Prime Minister, proposing for the fourth time since May to enter good faith negotiations around the emissions trading scheme...

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The Federal Government has rejected some of the recommendations from a review of national environment laws.

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The federal government should start negotiating with the Australian Greens if it wants parliament to pass its plan to tackle climate change, party leader Bob Brown says.

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We’re better on “anti-pollution” than developing nations so we don’t really need to do anything until they do;

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The federal government has rejected a call for the creation of a greenhouse trigger, a move that would give it the power to block emissions-intensive projects.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has axed the Hawke Review's recommendation of an independent watchdog over native forest logging with the power of sanctions for environmental destruction, Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown said in Hobart today...

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Climate forum a 'total failure' THE Copenhagen climate change summit was an unmitigated failure, Greens Leader Bob Brown says.

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Greens leader Bob Brown has described the outcome of the Copenhagen conference on climate change as a disaster and says it's time for the federal government to start "serious negotiations" with his party in the Senate.

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THE collapse in Copenhagen shows the power of the polluters over the politicians.

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Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says Australia had hoped to achieve more from the Copenhagen conference, but must now move forward and implement the accord.

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More than 20 people have been arrested after climate change protesters blocked rail lines leading to Australia's biggest coal export facility.

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COMMONWEALTH Bank's controversial presence in low-tax Malta is in doubt as the bank reviews its highly profitable structured finance operations.

Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says that, after the Copenhagen collapse, next year's federal election will be a referendum on global warming. "The 2010 poll is shaping up as a vote for or against Australia taking a lead in fixing global warming below 1.5 degrees...




















