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gay persons of color (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
... her media career. This year she became the lead news anchor for Ten News in Perth. Malaysian born Penny Wong arrived in Australia as a child in 1977 and is the first openly lesbian member of Australian parliament, as well as its first Asian-born female, and Australia’s first Minister for Climate Change and Water. The Same Same 25 list " was created to bring together a group of the...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
MUCH to the chagrin of greenies, Penny Wong is delaying issuing Australia's emission reduction targets until after this month's Poznan meeting on climate change, and any targets in the forthcoming Australian white paper will not be definitive.Doubtless this policy drift is a recognition that the world has changed with the global downturn. The Climate Change Minister would also be aware...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong is leading an Australian delegation scheduled to arrive in Poland today to join negotiations on a new global climate deal.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... run on material now regarded as waste.Comment is being sought from Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong.
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Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... could run on material now regarded as waste.Comment is being sought from climate change minister Penny Wong.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday defended the government's modest climate change white paper, saying it will take time to tackle climate change. Wong, who made way for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to announce the greenhouse gass emissions targets on Monday, said the economy would become greener over time. "We have to build a low pollution economy of the future,...
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A Western Heart (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
LiveNews - Penny Wong [Minister for death-to-carbon & war-on-climate-change in Australia] has defended the federal government's modest greenhouse gas reduction targets, saying it will take time to tackle climate change. The climate change minister, who made way for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to announce the targets on Monday, said the economy would become greener over time. ......"People...
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typing is not activism.... (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
It is now almost impossible to believe that the first official act of the Rudd Labor Government was to sign Kyoto. Barely a year after that act, now reduced to almost empty symbolism, Kevin Rudd and his climate change and environment ministers - Penny Wong and Peter Garrett - must own responsibility for a complete [...]
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said here on Thursday Australia will announce climate change targets next week. Wong noted that targets to be announced next week would be fundamental to the design of the scheme. Australia is under pressure to stick to an ambitious 25-percent-emission cut by 2020 as a United Nations climate conference in Poland draws to an end. "In...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
... outside Rudd's office in the east coast city of Brisbane and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong's office in the southern city of Adelaide.Environmental groups have been lobbying for months for a 2020 reduction target to be set at a minimum of 25 percent, as recommended for developed countries by the United Nation's expert Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Rudd's plan calls...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
SMALL businesses and community organisations will have access to a $1.4 billion fund to help them cut their energy use and avoid the brunt of price increases to be caused by Australia's emissions trading scheme.The Climate Change Action Fund, available for five years, will be among the details of the emissions trading scheme to be launched in Canberra today.The Climate Change Minister, Penny...
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The Age (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
The emissions trading scheme was to be launched today by the Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, who has just returned from discussing climate change with other environment ministers in the Polish city of Poznan. But in a last-minute change, Mr Rudd will launch the scheme at the National Press Club, highlighting the scheme's key role in the Government's re-election strategy.
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The Age (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
The emissions trading scheme was to be launched today by the Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, who has just returned from discussing climate change with other environment ministers in the Polish city of Poznan. But in a last-minute change, Mr Rudd will launch the scheme at the National Press Club, highlighting the scheme's key role in the Government's re-election strategy.
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
THE China crisis has ensured that Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong have come up with a plan to reduce carbon emissions pretty much in line with what John Howard would have produced. Now the Rudd Government needs to understand that Australia needs a new economic growth strategy because it can't rely on simply riding the China boom and brazenly exploiting our rich reserves of fossil fuels.Until...
