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Craig VenterNew man-made species could solve energy problems

Sara Phillips |

Craig Venter sure doesn't look like Dr Frankenstein. He's a genial looking bloke: bald and sun-damaged on top and whiskery, like the keen sailor he is, on the chin.

But like Mary Shelley's hero, he has created life from spare parts. He's re-thinking Darwin and he's trying to solve the world's environmental and health problems.

"I note that this exciting new development of sustainable energy is funded by the BIG OIL company Exxon Mobile." - Lewis of the Hills

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A paddlesteamer on the Murray

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Kevin's carbon compo blowout

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Tasmanian Liberal Leader Will Hodgman in Hobart's Botanical Gardens

Green ministers a possibility in a Liberal Government  

News Online |

Tasmania's Liberal leader Will Hodgman has not ruled out the possibility of Green MPs holding a ministry if his party forms government.

Electric cars an 'attractive proposition' for Australia

Electric cars an 'attractive proposition' for Australia    

Inside Business |
A fallen tree brought down power lines and damaged a shop front at Proserpine.

Cyclone-ravaged north Queensland 'dodges a bullet'    

News Online |
Greener gardens grace ACT

Backyard garden resurgence    

7pm TV News ACT |

The Agriculture Minister Terry Redman says WA has a chance to become a major supplier of wheat to Saudi Arabia.  

The Agriculture Minister Terry Redman says WA has a chance to become a major supplier of wheat to Saudi Arabia.
News Audio |

The president of REIWA Alan Bourke says speculators are sitting on land in the expectation prices will rise  

The president of REIWA Alan Bourke says speculators are sitting on land in the expectation prices will rise
News Audio |

The Urban Development Institute's Deborah Goostrey says more land should be released as the population jumps in Perth and demand increases  

The Urban Development Institute's Deborah Goostrey says more land should be released as the population jumps in Perth and demand increases
News Audio |

Bligh tours St George flood zone  

Premier Anna Bligh speaks about the St George floods in southern inland Qld to the ABCs Craig Zonca.
News Audio |

Balonne Shire Mayor Donna Stewart speaks about St George floods  

Balonne Shire Mayor Donna Stewart speaks to the ABCs Craig Zonca about the St George floods in southern inland Qld
News Audio |

Toodyay fire survivor Laurie Biggs says there are still many unanswered questions about December's devastating blaze.  

Toodyay fire survivor Laurie Biggs says there are still many unanswered questions about December's devastating blaze.
News Audio |

Volunteer fire fighter James Knapp tells reporters the investigation into December's devastating Toodyay fire should be re-opened  

Volunteer fire fighter James Knapp tells reporters the investigation into December's devastating Toodyay fire should be re-opened
News Audio |

Adelaide Ladder project helps young  

Andrew Crowell talks about the Adelaide Ladder project, which involves restoring the Black Diamond Hotel at Port Adelaide.
News Audio |

Rain boosts mozzie numbers 

News Online |

$500K to target storm repairs 

News Online |

Commission told of time discrepancies in Strathewen fire  

News Online |

Highway funding shortfall 

News Online |

A Portrait of Bob 

RN Artworks |

Carbon Copy    

Landline |

Federal Chief Scientist joins Lateline    

Lateline |

IQ2: Should Australia Embrace Nuclear Power? 

ABC FORA |

Fire and ice

News Video |

Amazing pictures of a volcano erupting underneath an ice field in southern Iceland.

Volcano at Icelandic glacier erupts

Fire and ice  

Amazing pictures of a volcano erupting underneath an ice field in southern Iceland.
News Video |
Flick goes the Shears

Flick goes the Shears  

Australia's sheep flock is predicted to fall to its lowest level in more than a century this year as struggling wool growers bail out or focus on the more lucrative lamb market. Some of the big movers in the meat game are the once scorned shedding sheep. Kerry Staight reports fro ...
Landline |
Carbon Copy

Carbon Copy  

Australian grain growers need no reminding that the past decade or so has been one of the toughest on record nor that the biggest factor has been the weather. However as Chris Clark reports Australia continues to be one of the world's largest wheat exporters.
Landline |
Electric cars an 'attractive proposition' for Australia

Electric cars an 'attractive proposition' for Australia  

Former Victorian MP and chief executive of Better Place Australia, Evan Thornley, discusses his company's infrastructure plans for electric cars.
Inside Business |

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