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  Winds of change blowing through Australian energy policy 

  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22389316-23850,00.html

  AUSTRALIA is in the middle of a revolution in energy policy driven by the threat of dangerous climate change. Whatever the outcome of the looming federal election, Australia will have a national emissions ... trading scheme operating from around 2011, based on economic analysis to be completed next year. But it is generally agreed that trading alone will not be enough to deliver the deep cuts in greenhouse gases required both here and overseas. Along with the debate over privatisation of government-owned energy generation and retail assets, the next big climate change policy debate confronting Australia will be about shaping a comprehensive industry strategy for energy. The stakes are high. Energy users have already forecast that up to $75 billion of new-generation infrastructure will be needed by 2030 to achieve emissions cuts and increase supply to sustain economic growth. Business accepts the change, but wants it at the lowest possible cost and has started to weigh in to the debate.   [More...] [Less...]

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  Aussie helps find 14 new galaxies 

  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22431096-2702,00.html

  AN Australian scientist is part of an international team of astronomers which has found 14 new galaxies. The discovery, outlined in Astrophysical Journal, represents a major breakthrough in the field of ... distant galaxy hunting and is like finding 14 needles in a haystack. The team was led by Nicolas Bouche from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and included astronomer Dr Michael Murphy, from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in northern Chile, the astronomers relied on quasars, which are like cosmic beacons, to find the galaxies. “We infer the galaxies' existence from the specific pattern of shadows they imprint onto the quasars' spectrum,” said Dr Murphy. The team searched the patches of sky around the quasars for the foreground galaxies whose light comes from the time the universe was only about six billion years old, less than half its current age. Working at the Uni   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 18 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  AIC - Future directions in technology-enabled crime: 2007–09 [pdf]

  http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/78/rpp78.pdf

  First added: 13 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  aic, australia, crime, criminology, forensic , hackers, internet, security, technology   [More...] [Less...]