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New York Times Topics: Australia ; BBC Australia country profile
Australia’s “kingmakers” meet to discuss next government
(Reuters) - A handful of independent and Green MPs who will decide the make-up of the next Australian government hold their first meeting on Tuesday to discuss whether to support the Labour Party or conservative opposition’s bid for power.
Latest counting […]

Green Facts Scientific Facts on Desertification
FAO Desertification website
Did You Know? Deserts and desertification
UNEP launches initiative to address desertification
Desertification threatens one-third of the planet and the livelihoods of more than a billion people, the United Nations Environment Program officials said Monday as the agency launched a new initiative. The decade-long effort will seek to support […]

As we approach the second decade of the twenty-first century, the changes, or reluctance to change, on the part of governments and business, becomes more evident, not always to the benefit of the majority of citizens.  A cynic’s point of view might be that we have been invaded by local native Martians.
The Russian spies
Espionage may […]

How to screw up a vaccination campaign in 12 easy steps Priceless.
FLU on Wednesday-Night.com
WHO Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 ; Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota ; Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ; Public Health Agency of Canada Facts on the H1N1 FLU VIRUS ; Quebec government website ; CBC Health for […]

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UN report: “Best” countries should improve opportunities for migration
Citizens of Norway, Australia and Iceland had the best standard of living, according to the 2009 UN Development Report, which also urged destination countries to improve opportunities for migration by amending restrictive policies. Migrants from […]

More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com Thirst a powerful slide show on water ; Stockholm International Water Institute ; Nanotechnology for clean water ; (IPS files) Troubled Waters ; Economist Special Report on Water
2 June 2000 — Dawn of a thirsty century
The amount of […]

March 5
Environmentalists win landmark Kearl Tar Sands lawsuit
Ecojustice lawyer Sean Nixon was in court in January on behalf of the Pembina Institute, Sierra Club of Canada, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta and the Prairie Acid Rain Coalition.
“This is a huge victory,” said Nixon. “The Court accepted our position that the environmental assessment was flawed, […]

24 October 2007
Lately, we have spent a lot of time agonizing over the political scene in this country. So much so, that it appears to us we have been neglecting many international news items and issues, so this Wednesday, appropriately United Nations Day , we propose to look at some of (it is hardly […]

(Copyright National Post 2003)
Australia the next best thing to being at home
by Cleo Paskal
published Jan 25, 2003

AUSTRALIA - I love Canada. It is a special place. Unique. Grand. I have been known to grumble dangerously when mentions are made of the 51st state. But I have to admit I made a mistake. Canada is not […]