Topic: Kevin Rudd

Australia mourns lives lost in wildfires 1 year on

Australia mourns victims, celebrates community spirit a year after wildfires killed 173 peopleReleasing butterflies to honor the dead, Australians marked the one-year anniversary of the country's worst-ever wildfires Sunday in big-city cathedrals and small towns still bearing burn scars. On Feb. 7 last year, hundreds of fires raged across ...
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Australia blocks suspicious shipments to Iran

Australia blocked several recent export orders to Iran over WMD fearsAustralia recently blocked several export shipments to Iran because of concern the cargo may have been destined for Tehran's nuclear weapons programs, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Thursday. The bans were ordered by the defense minister under laws aimed ...
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Australia opposition eyeing voluntary CO2 cuts plan

SINGAPORE/CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's main opposition coalition, which has repeatedly blocked attempts to pass carbon trading laws, is eyeing a voluntary scheme based on buying up cheap offsets as a way to break the deadlock. According to documents obtained by Reuters, the scheme, funded with public money, would buy ...
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Australia sends air traffic marshals to Haiti

Australia said on Saturday it would deploy a specialist air traffic control team to quake-ravaged Haiti following a US request to help restore order at the nation's jammed airports. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said a group of specially-trained military air traffic marshals would leave next week for the devastated ...
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