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Gillard's future hangs on selling carbon tax
PM must please Greens and placate struggling voters if she is to succeed in pushing legislation through Parliament and regain shrinking popularity.
PM must please Greens and placate struggling voters if she is to succeed in pushing legislation through Parliament and regain shrinking popularity.
Act Party Leader Don Brash has used Nazi analogies to attack local body bureaucrats.
Prime Ministers discuss everything from war in Afghanistan to emissions trading.
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown is confident his negotiations with Julia Gillard's Labor Government will see a carbon tax put in place across the Tasman.
Labour is continuing to insist that putting agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme in 2013 won't raise the price of dairy products, and says Prime Minister John Key is being misleading by saying it will.
Australia's main cities face floods and king tides from rising sea levels that could make once-in-a-century disasters....
Phil Goff has pledged to restore tax breaks for companies investing in research and development.
It's foolish to rush into further commitments on cutting carbon emissions, writes Phil O'Reilly
Climate change is threatening to fragment Prime Minister Julia Gillard's leadership.
I remember when the weather was innocent and free.
In contrast to the train wreck at Copenhagen a year ago, decent progress was made at Cancun, writes Brian Fallow.
Nick Smith yesterday hailed a "major breakthrough" in climate change talks which ended on Saturday.
State-owned coal miner Solid Energy's plans to turn low-grade Southland lignite coal deposits into massive new industries make no sense and the coal should remain in the ground, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.