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Australia's epic premiere

Australia's epic premiere Video: Fans line the red carpet for premiere of Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia. NICOLE KIDMAN, the star of Baz Luhrmann's epic movie Australia, seems to be one of the few people in the country willing...

BHP moves swiftly after uranium ban lifted

BHP Billiton has announced it will reactivate the Yeelirrie project in the Goldfields after the Western Australian Government lifted a long standing ban on uranium mining. The company has written to Mines Minister Norman Moore...

New plant tackles our electronic leftovers

Environmentalists and the Federal Opposition have accused the Federal Government of dragging its feet on a national response to Australia's e-waste epidemic, following the opening of the southern hemisphere's first automated...

Japan urged to help save whales

CONSERVATION Minister Peter Garrett has called on Japan to join a $4 million Australia-funded whaling research program. "I would urge all nations of the IWC to join with us in this exciting new venture and Australia would...

Nation's biggest solar plant closes

IN A body blow for Australia's solar industry, the nation's biggest solar-panel factory will close early next year, taking 200 skilled jobs with it, equal to one-eighth of the total Australian solar workforce.

New music institute is flexible: Garrett (AAP)

A new independent music institute will provide a more flexible and efficient approach to elite classical training, federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett says. Mr Garrett on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with...

Minister set for uranium expansion

Western Australia's decision to allow more uranium mining and the discovery of more deposits in the Northern Territory, have the Greens concerned. The Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has said any proposals for new...

Japan's whaling mother ship sets sail

Japan's whaling fleet set off on its annual whaling cull in the Southern Ocean, according to reports. By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo The Nisshin Maru mother ship set sail from the port of Inoshima in southwestern Japan without...

Greenwatch: Mosques support sea turtle conservation in Malaysia

Mosques support sea turtle conservation in MalaysiaSource: Mongabay.comThis week almost 500 mosques around the Malaysian state of Terengganu will present sermons on turtle conservation, reported the New Strait Times. Terengganu...

Artists plead to keep academy

MORE than 750 musicians, writers, actors and composers -- including Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries, Peter Carey, J.M.Coetzee, John Pilger, Anthony Warlow, Paul Kelly and Simon Rattle -- have condemned the federal Government's...

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