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• Australian PM Rudd Tempers Copenhagen Expectations

  
  ecopolitology — Authority: 467
  Says he’s optimistic for an ‘operational framework’ to be worked out in Copenhagen. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has joined what appears to be a growing chorus of voices suggesting that the best hope for an agreement at the U.N. climate talks next month in Copenhagen. That voice? Let’s understand that ...
  16 hours ago

• Australia: Rudd to Break Campaign Promise Again, Overturn ACT Civil Unions

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 446
  KEVIN Rudd will move to overturn legislation passed by the ACT government allowing gay couples to hold public, legally binding ceremonies as they form civil unions. In the latest run-in between the commonwealth and the ACTs Labor government on the divisive issue, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said ...
  18 hours ago

• Tom Cruise talks to ashtrays, bottles, “and other inanimate objects.”

  
  Book Case — Authority: 419
  A new book reveals that Tom Cruise would talk to objects for hours. That’s according to a Scientology escapee Marc Headley who reveals in his memoir Blown For Good, some of the crazy habits of his former teacher who told him, “”You tell the ashtray, ‘Sit in that chair.’ Then you actually go over [...]No ...
  20 hours ago

• Organisers of swear day campaign claim Google Wave first

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 705
  Organisers of an anti-violence campaign to launch tomorrow are claiming that their use of Google Wave in the National Swear Day project is a world first.   High profile personalities are being asked to publicly ”swear” that they will not commit violence towards women. The My Oath campaign is being run on ...
  1 day ago

• Australia edges closer to carbon-trading scheme

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Sydney, Nov 24 (DPA) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could get his wish and have legislation for a national carbon-trading scheme through Parliament before he attends next month’s climate conference in Copenhagen.Rudd’s Labour government Tuesday sealed a deal with the conservative coalition it beat at the ...
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• Breaking: Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong – press conference

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 144
  Listen here. Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong Press Conference Key points of deal: increased assistance to coal industry voluntary action of Australian households will be counted additional support for electricity industry exclude agriculture and include offsets additional help for electricity prices More to come… ...
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• 2007 Remembered: Howards Swift End

  
  Labor View from Bayside — Authority: 123
  24 November is the 2nd anniversary of the election of Kevin Rudds Labor governemnt in Australia. The Poll the Counts videos from election day were taken around Canberra polling booths and at the National Tallyroom. My favourite is Tallyroom Spectators: The others can be found at YouTube or Teacher Tube .
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• Essential Report – Vote Strength and Partisan ID

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 468
  This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 45/39 to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 55/45 – no change on the major party figures from last week. The Greens are down 2 to 7 , while the broad Others are up 2 to 9 . This comes from a two week rolling sample of 1892, giving us an ...
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• Obamas Personal Hollywood Gay Invite … Army Nixes Sarah Palin Photo Ops

  
  Queerty — Authority: 733
  ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. → President Obama invited Hollywood supergay David Geffen over to the White House for his first State Dinner. Or was it a Wii tournament? CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Adoption , ...
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• Labor Calls on Australian PM Kevin Rudd to Approve Marriage Equality

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 761
  The Victorian Labor Party is pressuring Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to recognize marriage equality, the Sydney Morning Herald reports : "Labors state conference overwhelmingly passed a resolution at the weekend calling for gay and lesbian couples to be given the same rights as heterosexual couples, ...
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• On air: Are climate change deniers the greatest threat to our planet?

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 580
  All last wek we talked here on the blog about your attitude towards climate change. Now we have confirmation that Kevin Rudd’s going to get heavily involved in the Copenhagen summit, and that 60 world leaders will attend. But that’s not what you’re talking about. By far the most attention is on these leaked ...
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• Climate madness soon to be enacted?

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 144
  Are the Senate about to throw us off? The next 48 hours will determine whether Australia goes over the cliff edge of climate madness, and passes an ETS based on flawed science and the political posturing of the IPCC, and which will do nothing for the climate either locally or globally, but which will do untold ...
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• For Rudd, now it’s personal

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 517
  Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may be a shoo-in to return to office late next year, but this week his reputation as a transformative leader will be on the line. The Senate will vote whether Australia will cut its carbon output through an emissions trading system, or ETS. The debate is being closely watched ...
  2 days ago

• Bond Scam Perpetrated by Money-grubbing Government

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 569
  "The whole sea is storming" is apparently the Swedish name for the childrens game of musical chairs, at least according to Wikipedia . "Literally fighting for chairs," though, is what its apparently called in Cantonese and Mandarin. And we think that sets the stage for this week in the markets better than anything: ...
  2 days ago

• Same-Sex Marriage: Rudd Feels Pressure from Below

  
  Benjamin Solah, Marxist Horror Writer — Authority: 500
  Victorian Labor’s decision to pass a resolution overwhelmingly in favour of same-sex marriage is a real boost for the campaign and again proof that the tide of public opinion is shifting despite Rudd’s homophobic stubbornness. Kevin Rudd has repeatedly refused to support legislation that would make same-sex ...
  2 days ago

• Why Rudd fell out with Chris Mitchell

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 705
  How Rudd fell out with The Australian Sydney Morning Herald
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• The eyes of the world must remain on Colombo

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 131
  Sydney University’s Jake Lynch, a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause , writes in his weekly column about Sri Lanka and the need to continue pressure over its appalling treatment of the Tamils: The news that the Government of Sri Lanka is to close the internment camps where thousands of Tamils were ...
  2 days ago

• Browns Lose In Torturous Fashion to Lions 38-37

  
  WaitingForNextYear — Authority: 149
  I’ve said it once and I will say it again.  I do not believe in curses.  Today’s loss to the Lions gave me one of those moments in life where I had a choice.  I could either spend the rest of the day with beer drowning in my sorrows, or I could go running and [...]
  2 days ago

• Crowdsourcing a cultural policy?

  
  marcus westbury — Authority: 413
  National Museum of Australia WHAT HAPPENS when the Federal Government puts a call out to the public to make suggestions about a cultural policy? After a few hours of reviewing some of the submissions, it would be fair to say that the quality and usefulness of the submissions so far have been decidedly mixed. ...
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• Wong and Rudd’s “heat wave” deception

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 144
  Krudd and Wrong From the Weather Isn’t Climate Department: As if we need more proof that Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong are on a religious crusade on climate change rather than anything based on science, they blurt out unfounded links between the heatwave in New South Wales and “global warming”: Sydney’s ...
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