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Day: June 18, 2014

Business
UNESCO backs off Barrier Reef ‘in danger’ listing

Member countries of the United Nations’ World Heritage Committee have strongly criticised Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government for approving a coal terminal near the Great Barrier

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UK, China ‘redouble’ climate change efforts

The United Kingdom and China have pledged to “redouble” their efforts to combat climate change, describing it as an “urgent call to action.” Ironically this

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Lib-Nat govt gets election trigger with CEFC vote

Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government has been handed its first double dissolution election trigger with the voting down of moves to abolish the Clean Energy Finance

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WA govt allows Kimberley fracking without EPA

West Australia’s conservative Liberal-National state government has decided to allow the exploration of Coal Seam Gas (CSG) in the state’s Kimberley region without an Environmental