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Call for WIPO to wipe out cybersquatters
Thursday, 22 June 2000, 1:06 pm | Australian Government
The Australian Government has called on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to develop guidelines and policies to prevent bad faith registration of internet domain names. More >>
Australia identifies new Indian Ocean fishery
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 11:40 pm | Australian Government
Australia is playing a lead role in developing arrangements for a potentially important new fishery in the Indian Ocean and a draft management arrangement will be forwarded to officials in South Africa and New Zealand shortly. More >>
Australian govt targets renewable energy industry
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 10:59 pm | Australian Government
The Australian Government has launched an industry development strategy for the renewable energy industry and an associated $387 million package of assistance to support the growth of the industry. More >>
Australian focus on illegal airline passengers
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 10:34 pm | Australian Government
Airlines bringing passengers to Australia without proper documentation will face increased infringement penalties from 1 July the Australian Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock said today. More >>
Australian Business Number (ABN) system explained
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 10:15 pm | Australian Government
Australian Tax Commissioner Michael Carmody launched a new guide this week to help business to understand the Australian Business Number (ABN) quotation requirements that apply from 1 July 2000 under the Pay As You Go system. More >>
Australia supports project for rural Indonesia
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 9:55 pm | Australian Government
Through its overseas aid program the Australian Government today announced it will contribute $11.1 million to a six year project supplying water and sanitation to two million people living in Indonesia's Eastern provinces. More >>
Parliamentarians to observe Zimbabwe elections
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 9:43 pm | Australian Government
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer, today announced that a Parliamentary Observer Group has been commissioned to observe the Zimbabwe elections later this month. More >>
Australia settles long running trade dispute
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 9:29 pm | Australian Government
Australian Trade Minister, Mark Vaile, and Industry, Science and Resources Minister, Senator Nick Minchin, today announced Australia had settled the long-running dispute with the US over assistance provided to the Australian automotive leather manufacturer, ... More >>
Cairns Group proposal to end export subsidies
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 9:14 pm | Australian Government
Trade Minister, Mark Vaile, has welcomed a major negotiating proposal on the elimination of agricultural export subsidies by the Cairns Group of agricultural fair trading nations to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). More >>
Release Of Safety Assesment Reports On GM Foods
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 3:02 pm | Australian Government
We are here today because we are all stakeholders in the work of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority – ANZFA - and because we have a special interest in food safety, particularly the safety of genetically modified or GM foods. More >>
Aus Welcomes Release of New Zealand Defence Paper
Monday, 19 June 2000, 11:03 pm | Australian Government
The Minister for Defence, John Moore, today welcomed the release by Prime Minister Helen Clark of the New Zealand Government's Defence Policy framework paper. More >>
Transcript: Joint media conference Defence
Friday, 16 June 2000, 2:26 pm | Australian Government
Australian Minister of Defence, Hon John Moore and New Zealand Minister of Defence, Hon Mark Burton More >>
Australia-New Zealand Ministerial Talks
Wednesday, 14 June 2000, 6:38 pm | Australian Government
The Minister for Defence, John Moore, is in New Zealand for annual ministerial discussions with his counterpart, Mark Burton. More >>
Evacuation of Australians from Solomon Islands
Friday, 9 June 2000, 2:58 pm | Australian Government
The embarkation of Australians and other foreign nationals wishing to evacuate Honiara resumed this morning at approximately 8:00 o'clock. Approximately 300 people have boarded HMAS Tobruk which has spent the night anchored in Honiara harbour. More >>
Evacuation of Australians from Solomon Islands
Friday, 9 June 2000, 10:35 am | Australian Government
The evacuation from Honiara of Australian and other foreign nationals commenced at 5:30pm (AEST) and continued until 8:00pm. More >>
Aus PM John Howard - Press Conference
Tuesday, 23 May 2000, 10:40 am | Australian Government
This will only be for a few minutes, you may want to ask me one to two quick questions, but before you do that I thought I might inform you that this morning I took a telephone call from President Wahid of Indonesia. It was in response to the letter I’d written ... More >>
Alexander Downer - Fiji Crisis
Tuesday, 23 May 2000, 10:38 am | Australian Government
This morning I spoke by telephone to the President of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, about the developing situation in Suva in which the Fijian Prime Minister and members of his government have been unlawfully detained at gunpoint in the parliament building. More >>
