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CSIRO questions whether all Australia's emissions cuts are realThe concerns by the nation’s pre-eminent science agency suggest Australia could have overstated its contribution to the fight against global warming.
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CSIRO questions whether all Australia's emissions cuts are realThe concerns by the nation’s pre-eminent science agency suggest Australia could have overstated its contribution to the fight against global warming.
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Senator questions whether 'driest continent on the planet' should grow, export cottonSenator Rex Patrick is challenging the cotton industry to justify its use of water and its right to farm.
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NSW power prices expected to soar if emissions targets extend beyond Paris Agreement | Sky News AustraliaPower prices are expected to soar in New South Wales if national legislation incorporates emissions targets beyond the Paris Agreement.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports State Energy Minister Don Harwin has circulated a memo asking federal and state ministers to legislate a reduction in carbon emissions.\n\nFederal Energy Minister Angus Taylor has accused Mr Harwin of copying Labor's policy of higher targets which will be a 'wrecking ball for the economy'.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Liberal MP 'has questions to answer' over delegate tour | Sky News AustraliaLabor says Liberal MP Ian Goodenough has questions to answer, after revelations he escorted a delegation of Asian businesspeople to two lobster businesses that pay a commission to his company for securing export deals.\n\nThe West Australian MP promoted Lobster Shack and the Indian Ocean Rock Lobster processing factory during a keynote address in June last year.\n\nShadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says Mr Goodenough has 'serious questions to answer'. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n
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Kidz Bop Kids visit Australia for new album launch | Sky News AustraliaThe Kidz Bop Kids are in Australia to launch their new album ‘Kidz Bop 2019’ as part of their first world tour.\n\nThe group has so far sold 20 million albums.
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Qld govt building in flies upside down half-mast flag on Australia Day | Sky News AustraliaThe Australian flag was at half-mast and upside down outside a government building in Mackay on Australia Day.\n\nThe Joan Seden building is where the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service is based. \n\nManager Alanah Munro told the Mackay Mercury that it was done on purpose due to January 26 being ‘a day of mourning’ for some.\n\nSky News host Peter Gleeson says that the act ‘politicised an Australia federal department and that probably needs to be investigated’, and that the major of Australians are ‘completely over this sort of grandstanding’. \n\n\n\n\n\n
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