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Govt unveils draft Anzac centenary plans
Updated: 15:36, Sunday April 21, 2013
Govt unveils draft Anzac centenary plans

A series of interactive ‘travelling museums’ will form part of the federal government’s official Centenary of Anzac program, which has received a $25 million funding boost.

The extra cash, on top of the $83.5 million committed in last year’s budget, will help prepare what Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called the most significant Anzac commemoration ‘in our lifetimes’.

Australia will mark the Anzac Centenary between 2014 and 2018, commemorating 100 years since the nation’s involvement in World War One.

The government’s advisory board on the centenary program released its official blueprint for the proceedings on Sunday, including 25 recommendations the government accepted as a whole.

Ms Gillard thanked the board and its head, former Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston, for their excellent work.

‘This will be a time when all Australians can reflect upon the service and sacrifice of those who have served our country past and present,’ she said in a statement.

The $25 million is for projects that need some capital to get started early, including $10 million for the national Anzac Centenary Travelling Exhibition.

A major feature of the program, the museums will travel widely across Australia and include a state-of-the-art interactive wall that allows people to leave their own personal Anzac story.

The high-tech Anzac History Wall will be trucked around the country for three-and-a-half years and is expected to reach 85 per cent of the population.

An event to commemorate the first convoy that left Albany in 1914, a project to protect a Gallipoli submarine and a series of documentaries will receive $2.5 million each.

The remaining $7.2 million of the extra funding will go towards academic research including for the Anzac archives, history grants and the digitisation of First World War repatriation records.

The government in February announced it would double the amount available for local communities seeking grants to join the centenary to $100,000 per electorate.
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Aussies join army drill in South Korea

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Australian combat troops have for the first time taken part in annual South Korea-US joint military drills.

The 18-member army unit joined a landing drill held near the southeastern city of Pohang as part of the Foal Eagle US-South Korea joint military exercise, a South Korean defence ministry spokesman said.

Australia is a member of the 16-nation United Nations Command, and fought alongside South Korea during the Korean War against North Korea and China.

Australian casualties in the 1950-53 war numbered more than 1500, of whom 340 were killed, according to the Australian War Memorial’s official website.

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It was the first time combat troops from a United Nations Command member state had joined a US-South Korea joint exercise since the Korean War, the South Korean spokesman said.

The inclusion of Australian troops followed a request from Canberra ”to gain experience in joint military exercises”, he added.

The month-long exercises started on April 5, and involved 3000 South Korean and US marines.

The Korean peninsula has been in a state of heightened military tension since North Korea carried out its third nuclear test in February.

In response to fresh UN sanctions and joint South Korea-US military exercises, Pyongyang has spent weeks issuing blistering threats of missile strikes and nuclear war.

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Rio Tinto accused of environmental and human rights breaches

Native Mongolian herders angry that copper and gold mine is threatening fresh water supply and ecology
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Protesters from around the world attacked mining company Rio Tinto for a string for alleged environmental and human rights breaches during a fiery meeting with shareholders in London on Thursday.

Native Mongolian herders claimed that a $5bn (£3.3bn) expansion of the company’s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in the Gobi desert threatened the fresh water supply of hundreds of nomadic people and the area’s unique ecology.

Sukhgerel Dugersuren, executive director of Mongolian civil society organisation Oyu Tolgoi Watch, said: “Water is a life and death resource. Rio Tinto is diverting water without the consent of the local community or the government.

“It is already evident that not only livestock but local communities are losing access to adequate water supply. Pasture … [and] water resources are being taken from us and fenced in by the mine.”

She claimed that a tailings pond used to collect waste material from the mine had leaked and told Rio’s board that the local community demanded assurances that “there isn’t going to be a catastrophe in the region”.

Sam Walsh, Rio’s new chief executive, said the company was committed to environmental protection and human rights and was closely monitoring the mine’s development to “ensure our neighbours have a healthy and prosperous future”.

At the company’s annual meeting, Walsh said Rio recognised the importance of water and would draw water from a deep level aquifer, not from surface water. He said a seasonal river was being diverted around the mine, but the company would create a new spring for animal grazing and water collection further downstream.

Walsh said the mine, which is 34%-owned by the Mongolian government, would provide a massive boost to the local economy and could represent up to 36% of Mongolia’s GDP.

Protesters also raised concerns about Rio’s planned mines in Bristol Bay, Alaska, a controversial iron ore mine in Guinea, and a nickel and copper mine in Michigan.

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Why a very fast train system will never fly

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There’s this scene in the film The Castle where Eric Bana and Sophie Lee get back from overseas and immediately start telling the family about the movies they saw on the plane, the complimentary sleeping masks – ”they were for free” – and the selection of beef wellington or fish the stewards were offering.

It’s funny – and it’s kind of true. People do often want to talk about their plane trip; I often do. If you don’t catch planes all the time, how you spend the hours and what you watch when you’re tucked into those weird little unnatural plane-spaces seems to matter more than it should.

But the plane trip as a staple of post-holiday conversation is probably, and perhaps sadly, drifting from fashion in this part of the world. People are travelling more. The dollar is high. A lot of us can at least pretend to be more sophisticated and knowing.

What hasn’t gone from fashion is the inevitable post-holiday comparison of how they do things overseas and how we do things here.

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For Australians, one of the main subjects of comparison – the deficient state of transport in this country – was placed in the foreground this month with the release of a $20 million government report into high-speed rail down the east coast.

They’ve had these fast trains in Japan for decades. You couldn’t get around the place without them. They’ve got them in Europe and they’re the best way to see the continent. But why, in a place like Australia, are they seemingly no chance to happen?

First up, and to be clear, no one is going to be building high-speed rail in Australia any time soon. The Gillard government isn’t putting up any money. And Tony Abbott seems to have the misguided view that the motor vehicle is the last word when it comes to moving people around. He’s not going to stump up the billions. But the fact is, we taxpayers spent $20 million on this report that looked into the economics, the finances, and the engineering required to get a high speed rail system up. We might as well see what it says.

One point that emerges from the study is that, in convenience terms, the fast trains would be brilliant.

The study compared the experience of a business traveller making their way from Melbourne’s inner east to Sydney’s central business district on train and plane. At the moment, that traveller would need a taxi or to drive to Tullamarine Airport. At the airport, checking-in and waiting around would take about an hour or more. The flight would be about 85 minutes. After landing at Sydney, you’d be lucky to get into the CBD by train or cab within 40 minutes of touching down.

But the experience with the hypothetical fast train could be about 20 per cent faster. You could take a much shorter cab ride or public transport to Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station, arriving there within 15 minutes or less to departure. The trip would be longer, at about 2 hours and 45 minutes. But if the fast train made it all the way to Central station, the business traveller could get from there to Sydney’s CBD in 10 minutes or so.

In fact, the report pretty much shows that if a system like this were ever erected, the domestic airline industry would be gutted.

If it was ever built, high-speed rail between Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney would attract 84 million trips a year by 2065, the report predicts. Of these, about 46 million of them would come from trips people would otherwise have flown for. (At the moment, the Australian domestic aviation industry carries about 56 million trips a year.)

The study argues that if high-speed rail did pose a threat to airlines, they would not compete by lowering prices. There has been so much discounting anyway that prices are probably low enough.

Instead, airlines would fly fewer planes on routes that compete with high-speed rail. They would shrink as businesses. This was the response in France when the Marseille to Paris TGV opened: Air France cut services, and easyJet left the route.

According to the study, the airline industry would cop a $9 billion hit to revenues from a high-speed rail line, using 2012 dollars. (The report assumes no second airport will ever be built in Sydney. This is strange because Anthony Albanese, the Transport Minister who commissioned the study, insists one is needed. The assumption also helps to make high-speed rail more commercially viable.)

There is no need, however, for Qantas, Virgin and Tiger to embark on a lobbying campaign to knock off the possibility of very fast trains. The study shows that if it were built, a fast rail network would be able to pay its way – including maintenance – charging fares comparable with those on domestic airline routes. But it wouldn’t be able to pay off the estimated $114 billion in construction costs (again in 2012 dollars) needed to build the system. And a price tag this big will ensure that articles like this one will remain projections of something many people would like, but governments are unlikely to ask them to pay for.

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Coastal Cities Confront Global Warming-Induced Sea Level Rise

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Six months after Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast, officials from coastal communities along the Eastern seaboard sat down for the first time to discuss the hurricane’s consequences and how to best protect their residents from sea level rise. The meeting, which took place in New York City on Wednesday, was sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The nonprofit science advocacy group released a report on sea level rise on Monday.

Rising sea level is what linked Sandy directly to global warming. Over the last century, the ocean off the New York coast rose 13 to 16 inches, making flooding from Sandy a lot worse. The super storm triggered an estimated $60 billion in estimated losses in New York and New Jersey alone.

“We got a glimpse of our collective future,” said Joe Vietri, director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ coastal and storm risk management program, during a press briefing. “Clearly we know climate change and sea level rise are right here. We are living it right now.”

The 25 officials at the meeting — who hail from Florida, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Virginia — spent the day comparing notes on how their cities and counties are adapting to sea level rise. Each of them are facing comparable problems, including beach erosion, increased flooding from storm surge, saltwater intrusion into drinking water wells, and compromised drainage systems. The officials discussed a number of adaptation strategies, including elevating homes, building sea walls and floodgates, using marshlands and artificial reefs to buffer storm surge, and reevaluating new development in the most vulnerable areas. Some municipalities are even considering elevating their entire town.

For some participants, such as Stephen Marks, Hoboken, New Jersey’s assistant business administrator, Hurricane Sandy erased any doubts in his town about global warming. “The debate about climate change is essentially over,” said Marks, whose 2-square-mile municipality of 50,000 was overwhelmed by 500 million gallons of Hudson River water. “Hurricane Sandy settled that for, I would say, a majority of the residents of our city.”

For others, such as Broward County, Florida, Mayor Kristin Jacobs, Hurricane Sandy was just an extreme example of the same old same old. “We’ve been dealing with the effects of climate change for quite some time,” she said. Broward County, she pointed out, established a climate change “compact” with three other South Florida counties in 2009 to address chronic flooding and other global warming impacts. Based on local trends and global projections, the compact — which collectively represents 5.5 million residents — expects the sea level off its coast to jump 3 to 7 inches by 2030 and 9 to 24 inches by 2060.

Development pressure on U.S. coastlines is bound to make a bad situation worse in coming decades. In 2010, more than 123 million Americans — 39 percent of the U.S. population — lived in coastal counties, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA expects the coastal population to increase by 8 percent to 133 million by 2020.

Vietri, who is overseeing the Army Corps of Engineers’ Hurricane Sandy study, bemoaned the fact that despite greater public awareness of climate change and sea level rise, “You still have people by the truckload moving into high hazard coastal areas.”

Vietri also criticized coastal communities for rushing to rebuild boardwalks and other beachfront infrastructure without considering sea level rise projections and the growing threat of storm surge. “This is a subject of great frustration for me,” he said. “You would think common sense would dictate you would design your protection and then put your boardwalk in, not the other way around. … I would even argue if, in fact, you even should rebuild them.”

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Rising sea level is what linked Sandy directly to global warming. Over the last century, the ocean off the New York coast rose 13 to 16 inches, making flooding from Sandy a lot worse. The super storm triggered an estimated $60 billion in estimated losses in New York and New Jersey alone.

“We got a glimpse of our collective future,” said Joe Vietri, director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ coastal and storm risk management program, during a press briefing. “Clearly we know climate change and sea level rise are right here. We are living it right now.”

The 25 officials at the meeting — who hail from Florida, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Virginia — spent the day comparing notes on how their cities and counties are adapting to sea level rise. Each of them are facing comparable problems, including beach erosion, increased flooding from storm surge, saltwater intrusion into drinking water wells, and compromised drainage systems. The officials discussed a number of adaptation strategies, including elevating homes, building sea walls and floodgates, using marshlands and artificial reefs to buffer storm surge, and reevaluating new development in the most vulnerable areas. Some municipalities are even considering elevating their entire town.

For some participants, such as Stephen Marks, Hoboken, New Jersey’s assistant business administrator, Hurricane Sandy erased any doubts in his town about global warming. “The debate about climate change is essentially over,” said Marks, whose 2-square-mile municipality of 50,000 was overwhelmed by 500 million gallons of Hudson River water. “Hurricane Sandy settled that for, I would say, a majority of the residents of our city.”

For others, such as Broward County, Florida, Mayor Kristin Jacobs, Hurricane Sandy was just an extreme example of the same old same old. “We’ve been dealing with the effects of climate change for quite some time,” she said. Broward County, she pointed out, established a climate change “compact” with three other South Florida counties in 2009 to address chronic flooding and other global warming impacts. Based on local trends and global projections, the compact — which collectively represents 5.5 million residents — expects the sea level off its coast to jump 3 to 7 inches by 2030 and 9 to 24 inches by 2060.

Development pressure on U.S. coastlines is bound to make a bad situation worse in coming decades. In 2010, more than 123 million Americans — 39 percent of the U.S. population — lived in coastal counties, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA expects the coastal population to increase by 8 percent to 133 million by 2020.

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Acidification and Oxygen depletion in our Oceans

Scientists are warning that dead sectors will appear

in our oceans, in which no life can exist.

Many nations rely on seafoods for their existence.

Our coral reef systems will be killed off.

The many scientific reports on these issues are not

accepted by Govt’s or the media.

So what can we do about this, they will kill off all

life in future generations, unless they can be convinced

of the seriousness of the situation.

Australia’s population is at it’s peak and is becoming

unsustainable. When the Pacific Islands are swamped

we will also be swamped by Climate Refugee’s.

How, or rather if we will be able to cope, is unthinkable.

All our pollies are doing is fighting amongst themselves,

rather than address issues vital to our survival.

This is not good enough, the survival issues must be addressed.,

I would appreciate some discussion on this, as to how we can

influence Govt’s and the Media to give these matters their

undivided and urgent attention.

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