The Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed Family First Senator Steve Fielding has lost his Senate seat — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New Zealand prime minister John Key has ordered an inquiry into how intelligence services granted high security clearance to a defence official accused of making wild claims on his resume — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Germany’s Greens, who are riding a wave of record support, may take control of a state government for the first time next year, co-leader Cem Oezdemir said on Thursday, and deal a severe blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
France remains opposed to a plan by the European Union’s executive to let each member country decide on whether to approve the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops, the French farm minister said on Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally will today sign a memorandum of understanding with Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore committing to an overhaul of transport and traffic in the CBD — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Regional Development minister has told the assembly that the government-owned company model for Northern Ireland Water should change — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been sworn into office, making her the first woman elected to the post in the nation’s history — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There would be another hung parliament if Australians went to the polls today, according to the first Newspoll since the federal election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A British teenager has been banned from the United States for life after sending an abusive email to president Barack Obama — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Government has finished a $3 million upgrade of its Transport Management Centre, including the provision of a new website that allows road users to glean real-time information about NSW road conditions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yesterday (9/11, as Americans call it), was widely touted as International Religious Tolerance Day, for reasons which should be obvious. To a first approximation, this seems like a good idea; a lot of the most unpleasant news of the past decade has been generated by the actions of the religious and intolerant, from Al Qaida to Pastor Terry Jones. But is more religious tolerance the answer? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The proposed multilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has hit a stumbling block over the liability of ISPs in allowing customers access to peer-to-peer file-sharing sites and the inclusion of geographic indicators — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The election for the position of mayor of New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, is just under a month away and already some candidates have begun spending big on political advertising, but there is one candidate with quite literally nothing to spend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bill giving same-sex couples the right to adopt has been passed by the NSW parliament, after the Legislative Council voted in support of a last-minute amendment to the legislation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A separate postmortem into the death of Ian Tomlinson carried out on behalf of the policeman filmed hitting him at the G20 protests last year has been withheld from the authorities, it has emerged — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julia Gillard has just scraped back into office as Prime Minister after the independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott announced they would support Labor to form a minority government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A blind man who claimed discrimination because he could not cast a secret ballot has lost his court case — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bill to allow same-sex adoptions in New South Wales is headed back to the Legislative Assembly — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) over the weekend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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