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.The Federal Government has announced it will stick to its existing targets for cutting greenhouse gases. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says the Government will have a 5 per cent reduction target with no conditions applying. . "And consistent with that target range, we will set a more ambitious target if the conditions that the Government has previously outlined are met. "We will continue to work with the parties to the Copenhagen accord to get the most ambitious agreement possible," she said. "We considered...

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.A former cane toad skin exporter says a Queensland man who is trying to sell the hated, poisonous pest to China will not have much luck. Queensland meat processor John Burey is travelling to China next month to negotiate a deal to export cane toads for food and traditional Chinese medicine. Mr Terpstra says in the 1970s he sold more than 60,000 cane toad skins to New York for boots, but was unable to export the pest's venom to Japan and China. But Canberra...

.A member of the Australian Defence Force raised his foot and connected with the heads of two overboard asylum seekers to block them from clambering onto a rescue boat, an inquest has heard. Corporal Sharon Jager has told a coronial inquest that she was blown into the water by a blast on the SIEV 36 asylum seeker boat near Ashmore Reef last April. Corporal Jager said her life jacket did not open and she was struggling to get onto a Navy boat that had come to rescue her....

.Defence Minister John Faulkner has admitted major problems with Australia's $6 billion fleet of Collins Class submarines have left only two of the six vessels currently operational. In a frank speech delivered to an international navy conference in Sydney, Senator Faulkner said there were serious problems with the submarines arising from the design and manufacturing process. . "We've faced a number of unanticipated problems arising from issues with the design and manufacturing process. "The availability of the Collins Class submarines has been less than optimal,"...