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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. "We will continue to work with the parties to the Copenhagen accord to get the most ambitious agreement possible," she said. Senator Wong says Australia will only lift its target to 15 per cent or 25 per cent if countries like China, India and the United States agree to verifiable reductions."...

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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. But Canberra man James Terpstra, who says he knows more about cane toads than anyone else in Australia, tried to do the same thing 30 years ago and failed. "We did...

.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. The incident left five Afghan asylum seekers dead. "[Able Seaman Adrian Medbury] has moved along and he has physically removed the two asylum...

.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. The latest crippling manufacturing problem came on Monday when the generator on the HMAS Farncomb failed, and Senator Faulkner says a number of faults are so...