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In what appears to be another slap across the face for John Howard President Bush praised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over his withdrawal from the war in Iraq.
Mr Bush also took the time to praise former PM Howard however the US involvement in Iraq looks set to see the Republican party lose control of the [...]

Prime Minister Rudd today announced that he’s setting off on a 17 day global tour which will see him meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, United State President George W Bush, and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Prime Minister Rudd is quoted in media as saying:
“The Government believes the maintenance of global economic and financial stability [...]

The Tasmanian Greens are asked gaming operators to switch off their poker machines during Earth Hour this weekend. The idea behind Earth Hour which originally started in NSW and has now spread globally is to switch off your lights for one hour at 8pm this Saturday.
The Greens have gone one step further in linking Earth [...]

Sydney wants a desalination plant, the cost? $203 per year for each household according to Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART).
The cost that isn’t factored in is the cost to the environment. Desalination plants put out toxic chemicals as waste which is discharged into the ocean and take enormous energy supplies which will be sourced [...]

We see two accidents in two days in Victoria. Lynne Kosky still says it’s too expensive to put in boom gates at level crossings, or even lights, or even sound alerts to notify drivers. Instead she says rumble strips located more than a kilometre away from the level crossing is satisfactory.
Try telling that to the [...]

Lynne Kosky has admitted that the new Victorian ticketing system project “Myki” will run approximately three years late and have a budget blow-out of more than 300% compared to early estimates.
So what went wrong? I think the Victorian citizens deserve a proper investigation into this.
The Auditor-General Des Pearson has just appeared before the Public [...]

Well it would seem very bad, in a recent study according to Greenpeace rising seas and water shortages will displace about 125 million people in India alone.
Climate change will also trigger erratic monsoons and ruin agricultural systems. We’ve already seen the Bureau of Meteorology put out warnings for extreme conditions leading into winter.
According to Vinuta [...]

In what appears on the surface to be sideshow antics by the lawyer in the Bali bombers case, he has now retracted the appeal because his clients were not allowed to appear in court.
The three accused men – Amrozi Nurhasyim, his brother Ali Ghufron (alias Mukhlas), and Imam Samudra have been in court for [...]

Tasmania’s Treasurer, Michael Aird, has agreed with NSW Premier Morris Iemma that political funding needs to be reviewed with the possibility of private political donations being disallowed. Aird stopped short of supporting Iemma’s total public funding in saying “there’s never been a great push in Tasmania for publicly-funded elections, but if there was going to [...]

Whilst it is inevitable that the Victorian State government will push through legislation to allow the recognition of same-sex relationships it seems that the council of Glen Eira disagrees.
Whilst the councils of Melbourne, Yarra, and Port Phillip have shown support for the idea of same-sex relationship entitlements, Glen Eira hasn’t.
I feel sorry for the residents [...]

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