However, the foreign affairs minister says Iraq had asked for more weapons, equipment and training, but not for more troops
Malcolm
Turnbull declares national security is not a bravado issue –
politics live
Prime
Minister Tony Abbott has confronted his Cabinet colleagues over
extraordinary leaks of a split on national security, describing it as
a "come to Jesus moment" for senior ministers.
Asylum
seekers tell rescuers that Australian authorities turned their boat
back from reaching the country's waters.
Clashes
have broken out in Melbourne between anti-Islam protesters and
anti-racism activists, as police battled to keep them apart. Verbal
insults and punches were traded, while parts of the city were closed
off.
Security laws passed in 2014
Security laws passed in 2014
Abbott and climate change policy
The
Abbott government has responded to the dozens of questions about its
climate policy posed by most of its major trading partners, but
continues to stonewall about whether it can meet its modest 2020
target, and how it would address any future target agreed to in Paris
later this year.
Last
week, without any announcement, Australia formally responded to the
unprecendent level of questions about its climate targets posed by
the US, China, Brazil, the EU, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and even New
Zealand.
It
comes as Australia prepares for direct questioning about these and
further questions in Bonn this Thursday, during a UN-sponsored
conference that will be a critical lead-up to the big conference due
to be held in Paris in December.
The
questions from the other countries mainly focused on Australia’s
2020 target, which is currently as a modest 5 per cent reduction, an
explanation of its Direct Action policy, and its accounting for land
use measurements, which has effectively allowed Australia to turn a
31 per cent increase in industrial emissions to a country-wide fall
of 2 per cent since 1990.
And the economy
SYDNEY--Australia's
current account deficit widened to a seasonally adjusted A$10.7
billion in the first quarter of the year from the fourth quarter of
2014, the Australia Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday.
Economists
had expected a deficit of A$10.9 billion in the first quarter. The
fourth-quarter deficit was revised upwards to A$10.2 billion from the
A$9.6 billion figure initially reported.
75%
drought declared - Western Qld graziers say droughts are getting
worse
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