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How to balance the human stories against the hard rhetoric »
With the focus on leadership spills and Copenahgen, people smuggling has been put on the political backburner. But expect refugees to be an even more bloody election battle than climate change, says Suvendrini Perera .
Data, fiction and politics: don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story »
Possum Com crunches the numbers on some important data, showing such a significant increase over time which any government would agree to act on. Except, that’s not the whole story…
US senators reveal climate action plan »
US senators have unveiled a framework for future US action on climate change, embracing emission cuts but also including nuclear power and offshore drilling.
Obama calls for climate deal, U.S. target under fire »
COPENHAGEN/OSLO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Thursday to break the deadlock at climate change talks in Copenhagen, although many nations accused the United States of lacking ambition.
Grattan: Soldiers, let the scare campaign begin »
Tony Abbott won’t win the next election. The best counter attack Abbott can hope for is running a negative scare campaign against the government on climate change and drilling up some support from Abbott’s army, writes Michelle Grattan .
Five ways Obama can earn his Nobel Prize »
Barack Obama has been given an “encouragement award” for peace, says Salon , but here’s five ways he can actually earn it. Start by getting the hell out of Iraq…
Obama accepts Peace Prize…. sends 30,000 to war »
Barack Obama has accepted his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the irony of doing so only a week after announcing a 30k troop surge into Afghanistan lost on nobody.
COPENHAGEN CALLING: Off on the Wong foot »
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong flew into Copenhagen today and made it clear that the talks were not going as well as hoped. 10 Dec 2009 7:10 AM
Where to now for Graincorp? »
Graincorp survived the GFC but its merchandise division lost $23 million. It must now assess if the merchandise business was a good idea poorly implemented or just bad to begin with. 10 Dec 2009 6:14 AM
Rundle: on Minchin, the green movement and Marxism »
Understand this clearly – more people now believe the Red-Green hypothesis, that capitalism is a system testing us to destruction in its current form, than go with the idea that it is some empty charade of communism by other means, writes Guy Rundle .