Australia’s opposition leader, Labour Party leader Kevin Rudd, who is the front-runner in this weekend’s elections, has said that climate change is his top priority.
In his last major address of the six-week campaign, Kevin Rudd accused Prime Minister John Howard’s 11-year-old government of being tired, out-of-touch and ill-equipped to cope with a new generation of […]

A study of the world’s power stations has shown the extent to which developed countries produce more carbon dioxide per head than emerging economies.
Australians were found to be the world’s worst polluters per capita, producing five times as much carbon from generating power as China.

On the eve of Australia’s federal election, Prime minister John Howard was followed on his morning walk by polar bears protesting against the destruction of the polar ice caps.
The Greenpeace-organised bears tailed Mr Howard on his walk around Canberra’s Lake Burley -Griffin to remind him of the urgency in dealing with climate change and […]

It might be considered an unlikely alliance, but Australian farmers and green groups have united in the fight against global warming.
They are launching a group called the Agricultural Alliance, which aims to significantly reduce emissions by up to 60 per cent by 2050.

Decommissioned oil rigs off Australia’s coastline could become hubs for marine-based businesses such as coral harvesting for aquariums, a fish expert argues.
Professor David Booth, of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science and University of Technology, Sydney, says there are up to 60 oil rigs in Australian waters that are due to be decommissioned in the […]