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Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-11-25T08:55:57+11:00 2008-11-25T08:55:57+11:00 An independent environmental research organisation, the Climate Institute, is calling on the Australian business community to come clean about its carbon pollution reduction targets.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428711.htm2008-11-25T08:55:57+11:00The Australian government will today introduce a Bill to dismantle the former government's industrial relations legislation, but some unions are concerned that the changes would not go far enough.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428710.htm2008-11-25T08:55:57+11:00New economic modelling has found university students in Australia spend on average hundreds of Australian dollars more than they earn every week, just to survive.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428709.htm2008-11-25T08:55:56+11:00The musical director of Opera Australia, Richard Hickox, has died of a heart attack in Britain at the age of 60.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428628.htm2008-11-25T08:55:56+11:00Images have been posted on the internet showing high school students in Western Australia's capital, Perth, engaging in organised fights.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428708.htm2008-11-25T08:55:56+11:00The 21 APEC leaders have ended their summit in Peru with a final declaration that says they will take all necessary economic and financial measures to respond to the global crisis.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427513.htm2008-11-25T08:07:49+11:00Police in the Australian state of Victoria say they are investigating the disappearance of two refugees from the Indonesian state of Papua.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428392.htm2008-11-24T22:45:24+11:00Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, says his first year in office has been complicated by the sharply deteritoriating global economic conditions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427648.htm2008-11-24T22:45:23+11:00The Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has released a paper on Australia's plans to spend up to $AUD100 million a year to encourage carbon capture and storage.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428030.htm2008-11-24T16:55:19+11:00The Australian defence minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, says he wants the United Nations to speed up its reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427796.htm2008-11-24T16:55:16+11:00Business groups in Australia have applauded a call from media giant, Rupert Murdoch, for companies to become more involved in public education.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427651.htm2008-11-24T11:31:07+11:00Authorities in the Australian state of Tasmania says they have used satellite technology to confirm 11 whales, that survived a mass stranding in the state's far north-west on the weekend, are now at sea.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427650.htm2008-11-24T11:30:59+11:00Green groups in the Australian state of New South Wales have welcomed the state government's plan to buy excess electricity from households which have with solar panels.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427649.htm2008-11-24T11:31:06+11:00A central Australian tour guide is urging the region's tourism operators to improve their skills to keep up with the expectations of visitors.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427655.htm2008-11-24T09:26:50+11:00Eleven whales which survived a mass beach stranding in southern Australia have been returned to the open ocean.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427424.htm2008-11-23T18:58:48+11:00A South Australian fresh produce trader has avoided legal action, despite being found to have underpaid an Indonesian worker by more than $US42,000 over nine years.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427371.htm2008-11-23T13:20:32+11:00New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney has praised former Australian coach Wayne Bennett for helping the Kiwis win their first rugby league World Cup.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427239.htm2008-11-23T08:24:53+11:00Australia has played itself into a winning position on day three of the first cricket test against New Zealand at the Gabba.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427144.htm2008-11-22T20:16:17+11:00US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States is trying to provide additional troops to US forces in Afghanistan and he wants at least some of the troops in place before Afghanistan's election next year.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427034.htm2008-11-22T12:26:33+11:00Ethnic and refugee groups say they believe the Australian Government's proposed overhaul of the citizenship test will make it less discriminatory.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427036.htm2008-11-22T12:26:32+11:00There has been a welcome reprieve for residents in storm ravaged south-east Queensland overnight.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426977.htm2008-11-22T09:57:25+11:00The Australian Federal Police say Solomon Islands is a long way from being able to maintain its own security.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426817.htm2008-11-21T22:25:37+11:00The Australian government will not be monitoring Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean this summer.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426309.htm2008-11-21T22:25:37+11:00A cruise ship has rescued four sailors who were stranded on a reef in the Coral Sea.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426695.htm2008-11-21T22:02:23+11:00The chief of the Australian Defence Force says he does not think a political settlement with the Taliban insurgents is close in Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426878.htm2008-11-21T22:02:23+11:00