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admin /28 June, 2010
Skilled migration program tightened
Updated: 16:28, Monday June 28, 2010
Australia’s skilled migration program is being sharpened to ensure the ‘best and brightest’ people enter the country, the head of the department of immigration and citizenship says.
Department secretary Andrew Metcalfe on Monday said changes coming into effect from July 1 mean that while the size of the nation’s migration program will be maintained, there will be greater focus on employer needs.
‘We are moving from Australia needs skills’ to the skills Australia needs’ approach,’ Mr Metcalfe told the Population Australia 2050 summit in Sydney.
‘This is not subtle.
‘We have been looking at the integrity and intentions of people coming to live here and that has led to significant changes in the system.’
admin /28 June, 2010
Eiris review names Britain as ‘dirty man of Europe’
Survey of Europe’s top 300 companies reveals UK as worst offender in terms of corporate impact on global warming
Protesters in New Orleans target BP over the oil spill from its drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Britain is being accused of being the “dirty man of Europe” after new research showed that, of the world’s top 300 companies, more than half of those most engaged in carbon-polluting sectors were based in the UK.
A review of Europe’s top 300 companies by the ethical investment consultant Eiris found that the greatest proportion of those with “very high impact” in relation to global warming came from the UK, more than double the number from any other country.
admin /28 June, 2010
BP oil spill reaches another US state
Updated 7 hours 24 minutes ago
Oil had previously only come ashore in Alabama, Florida and the hardest hit state, Louisiana. (US Coast Guard: Petty Officer 3rd Class Ann Marie Gorden)
Large patches of thick oil from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill in the United States have washed ashore for the first time in the state of Mississippi.
The news comes as BP raises its spill cost so far to $US2.65 billion ($3 billion), an increase of about $US300 million ($344 million) over the weekend.
Oil had previously only come ashore in Alabama, Florida and the hardest hit state, Louisiana.
Hundreds of globs of brown oil began washing ashore Mississippi tourist beaches at Ocean Springs and fishing hot spots on Sunday.
admin /27 June, 2010
Keneally stands by accused MP
HEATH ASTON
June 27, 2010
“Clerical error”… Wollongong MP Noreen Hay. Photo: Orlando Chiodo
PREMIER Kristina Keneally will not stand aside Noreen Hay after the Wollongong MP became the latest Labor politician to be referred to the corruption watchdog.
Despite paying a big political price for backing disgraced former Penrith MP Karryn Paluzzano when she was investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Ms Keneally said she would again insist on ”due process” for her colleague.
The NSW Electoral Commission confirmed on Friday it had handed a file to the ICAC relating to political donations to Ms Hay, a parliamentary secretary. The matter is believed to relate to $110,000 in electoral donations in 2008 that were not disclosed against official disclosure guidelines.
admin /27 June, 2010
What’s the carbon footprint of … a bushfire?
One season of Australian bushfires can cause as much CO2 as the annual emissions of 5 million Australians or 50 million Chinese people
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Flames from a burning house during bushfires in Rockhampton in October last year. As well as catastrophic for humans and wildlife, such fires also have a large carbon footprint. Photograph: EPA/JOHN CASEY
The carbon footprint of the 2009 Australian bushfires:165 million tonnes
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admin /27 June, 2010
Bob Carr backs Julia Gillard on population
- From: AAP
- June 27, 2010 2:29PM
FORMER New South Wales premier Bob Carr has welcomed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s take on population growth.
Ms Gillard today said she did not believe in a “big Australia” and that increased population levels needed to be sustainable.
Population Minister Tony Burke will be renamed Sustainable Population Minister, the Prime Minister said.
Mr Carr, an advocate of lower immigration levels, said Ms Gillard’s attitude was welcome.
“Eighty per cent of Australians will agree with Prime Minister Gillard but will need a breathing space,” Mr Carr said.
“Immigration has been run at levels that are simply too ambitious.
