CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's government has boosted compensation to big carbon emitters, coal companies and electricity generators under a revised carbon-trade scheme aimed ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's parliament votes next week on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan for a sweeping carbon trade scheme with hopes it ...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday made an emotional apology to half-a-million "Forgotten Australians" who faced sexual abuse, violence and forced labour in childcare homes over a period of decades. Hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged children, including some 7,000 sent from Britain, ...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an emotional apology on Monday to half-a-million "Forgotten Australians" who faced sexual abuse, violence and forced labour in childcare homes over a period of decades. Victims among the 1,000 people who packed Parliament House for the address ...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an emotional apology on Monday to half-a-million "Forgotten Australians", including British child migrants, who faced abuse and neglect in care homes over decades. Rudd, echoing his historic 2008 statement to Australia's Aborigines, addressed about 1,000 victims of ...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home. At a ceremony in the Australian ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized Monday for years of abuse and pain suffered by thousands of orphans and children sent to Australia from Britain, often without the knowledge of their parents. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is also ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's government has agreed to exclude agriculture from its emissions trading scheme in a major concession to the opposition to try to get carbon trading laws through parliament, a minister said on Sunday. The scheme has been delayed in ...
APEC Leaders from left, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, chat during the the Leaders Declaration at the APEC Summit in Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP ...
Britain to apologize for mistreatment of child migrants sent to 'better life' overseas British officials say Prime Minister Gordon Brown will apologize to thousands of British children who were shipped to new lives overseas, where many say they suffered neglect and abuse. ...
Asia-Pacific leaders will drop a fixed target for halving greenhouse gas emissions in a final summit statement, a Chinese official said Saturday. "On the 50 percent reduction target (from 1990 levels) by 2050, yes, it did appear in the draft," said Yi ...
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pressed Asia-Pacific nations Saturday to back his proposal for a more powerful regional group that will embrace political, security and economic issues by 2020. "Our proposal for an Asia-Pacific Community seeks to do this," he said ahead ...
