Australian households will now be eligible for a 500 dollar rebate on rainwater tanks with the introduction of a new government program.
The National Rainwater and Greywater Initiative is a 250 million dollar program designed to encourage households to improve water-saving strategies.
Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, says at the moment less than 10 percent of households in capital cities use rainwater, with the exception of Adelaide whose average is significantly better at 40%.
Anti-whaling protest ship, the Sea Shepherd has received a series of violent attacks by Japanese whaling ships.
One activist was hit with a metal ball thrown from a whaling trawler, and the crew's cameraman was hit by a water blast.
Founder of the Sea Shepherd conservation society and co-founder of Green Peace, Paul Watson says the organisation has successfully foiled whaling attempts, and this
is making the Japanese ships angry.
The Greens have announced a new green-collar jobs package for Queensland that will open the way for employing over 7600 people.
Fitting out homes statewide with improved insulation and solar powered hot water tanks, the Green's plan will also include spending $4 billion on two solar power plants for Townsville and the Darling Downs.
Greens leader Senator Brown says that this kind of action follows the example set by new US president Barack Obama's 5 million green-collar job plan, which Australia's federal government has thus far failed to do, instead spending taxpayers money on big banks and big polluters.
The development of solar powered air conditioner strategy would lessen both greenhouse gas emissions and the pressure on the Australian Power Grid, the Australian Institute of Architects has said today.
Managing Director Robert Caulfield says governments should invest more readily in research, as it could be a major contribution to lowering Australia's emissions.
Mr Caulfield also pointed out that through summer, when the use of air-conditioners puts the largest strain on the energy grid, the potential for solar energy supply is also at its highest level - a connection which is yet to be utilized properly.
A Moroccan man has been given six years in prison for selling customers hot dogs which contained dog meat instead of beef.
The man used chemicals to disguise the look and smell of the meat so customers wouldn't get suspicious.
He was ordered to pay a fine of almost 2 thousand dollars. The court also handed out jail sentences to four other men for their part in hunting and shooting the animals. The weather for today will be cloudy with showers in the afternoon, and a maximum of 28 degrees.
Under a proposed child protection scheme, children could be removed from the custody of their parents if they are over a certain obesity threshold and if other treatments have failed.
Dr Shirley Alexander of Westmead Children's Hospital proposes this measure as a part of a plan to combat the dire health risks to which overly tolerant parents subject their child.
Dr Alexander cites the case of a particular four year old of 40 kilograms that a child protection agency intervention successfully treated when the "family-focused" effort failed.
Increased cooperation between agencies has the potential to improve national efforts to prevent deliberately lit bushfires, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology.
The AIC's lates report shows that arson costs us at least 1.6 billion dollars every year, and about 50% of bushfires are found to be deliberately lit or suspicious.
Author of the report, Dr Damon Muller, says most of the arson activity happens on the weekends, and while the prosecution of those responsible is a good deterrent, the focus needs to be moved more onto education to make youth understand the consequences of bushfires.
In an effort to address chronic disease prevention, climate change and social inequality, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) has today released a report calling for a complete overhaul of food policy in Australia.
CEO of PHAA, Michael Moore, says the government needs to develop a national integrated policy that will benefit all Australians.
The report, A Future for Food, targets the environmental impact of food choices, the importance of affordable products and the current lack of nutrients in food, which can often lead to chronic diseases.
The development of solar powered air conditioner strategy would lessen both greenhouse gas emissions and the pressure on the Australian Power Grid, the Australian Institute of Architects has said today.
Managing Director of 'Archicentre,' Robert Caulfield, says governments should invest more readily in research, as it could be a major contribution to lowering Australia's emissions.
Mr Caulfield also pointed out that through summer, when the use of air-conditioners puts the largest strain on the energy grid, the potential for solar energy supply is also at its highest level - a connection which is yet to be utilized properly.
The Greens have announced a new green-collar jobs package for Queensland that will open the way for employing over 7600 people.
Fitting out homes statewide with improved insulation and solar powered hot water tanks, the Green's plan will also include spending $4 billion on two solar power plants for Townsville and the Darling Downs.
Greens leader Senator Brown says that this kind of action follows the example set by new US president Barack Obama's 5 million green-collar job plan, which Australia's federal government has thus far failed to do, instead spending taxpayers money on big banks and big polluters.
A new survey has revealed that Queensland is the hotspot for the record numbers of emmigrating British citizens.
The looming economic crisis, coupled with a bitter European winter, is driving 30% more Britons to Australia than the 2007 number.
Emmigrants will be leaving behind growing job concerns, and a series of strikes that appear to be gaining steam through social networking sites.
A new therapy shown to significantly reduce the risk of secondary heart attack, stroke or death will become available to Australian patients today.
The treatment known as "clopidogrel" is now listed within Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which means all Australians who suffer a heart attack will be eligible to receive immediate treatment.
Flinders Medical Centre's Professor Phillip Aylward described the new system as a win-win situation for both patients and the Australian Health system.
In France, more than one million people gathered to protest the government's management of the economic crisis.
Calling for job safety and increased salaries the mass union rally disrupted the country's rail and air services.
President Nicolas Sarkozy was under fire by protesters, after claiming salaries could not be increased due to the government's spending billions of euros bailing out struggling banks.
The Liberian government has declared a state of emergency this week after a mass pest infestation has placed farm production under serious threat.
More than 400,000 people have already been affected by the crop eating caterpillars.
President Johnson-Sirleaf has called for international aid, but the UN warns the reproduction of more insects could cause another attack.
A massive bronze shoe sculpture, designed to honour the Iraqi Reporter who threw his shoes at George Bush in a press conference, as been dismantled.
Iraqi artist Laith al-Ameri's sculpture was constructed only last week, but was taken down after an order from the governor, according to an official.
The journalist faces charges of "aggression against a foreign head of state" and could receive up to fifteen years in prison.
Reported by Jerome Walker, Siobhan Hegarty, Jamie McKinnell and Elena Gomez.
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