The interesting thing with this one has to be the demonstration of the power of the mining/business lobby in Aus... I don't know the back story but it looks like Rudd was "disappeared" in a matter of days (from when the rumours started to when he was gone--maybe 48 hours) and then the first thing that Gillard does is rescind the mining bosses supertax... Hmmmm...
M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Kurtz Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 8:59 AM To: Futurework Subject: [Futurework] Gillard,First Female Australia Premier on sustainability Julia Gillard <http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Julia%20Gillard&site=wnews&client=wnew s&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfiel ds=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja> , who last week replaced Kevin Rudd <http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Kevin%20Rudd&site=wnews&client=wnews&p roxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields= wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja> as Australian prime minister, may move to slow Australia's population growth amid concerns about failing infrastructure and the nation's environment. "The change of direction is to put front and center the sustainability issues," Gillard said in an interview with the Nine television network today "There are environmental issues about water and about soil. But there are also sustainability issues about planning, about services." (continues) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-27/gillard-first-female-australia-prem ier-breaks-with-rudd-mining-tax-plan.html
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