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7 April 2021 The Australian Industry Group is urging the Victorian government not to be too ambitious in its next round of emissions targets, due to be announced in the coming weeks, saying a high target could hurt Victorian businesses and give other states a cost advantage. The Andrews Labor government is considering a 2030 target of between 45 and 60 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, on the advice of an independent expert panel chaired by former federal Labor minister for energy and climate...

Are noisy, polluting buses coming to the end of the line? Dandenong manufacturer Volgren unveiled four zero-emission electric buses rolling off its production line on 30 March. And they rolled off near silently. Without the customary diesel engine noise, the only sounds are the rumbles of tyres and wind sweeping past the bus’s frame. The Victorian-built buses with 87 per cent local content are touted as a milestone for a clean, green and local bus manufacturing industry. They were on order fr...

STOWE, Vt. – Bob Poole noticed the traffic first. Poole and his wife bought a house on Stowes Bull Moose Ridge Road in 2014 because of the solitude. Poole, a former executive editor of National Geographic magazine, spent four decades working in the Washington, D.C., area. Vermont was his Nirvana. "My wife and I both loved it here," Poole said. "We started looking around. We found this place and made plans to sell everything in Virginia and move here. The big attraction was the quiet." One exa...

Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, will relax its third lockdown and allow spectators to return to the Australian Open tennis tournament after a five-day absence

Unitary consultation ROBERT JENRICK has announced an eight-week consultation period on two alternative, conflicting proposals to bring North Yorkshire under a unitary status – the so-called East/West split creating two unitaries, or the single North Yorkshire unitary. He claims that he has always been clear that any restructuring of local government must be locally-led and will not involve top-down solutions from government. However, this is not the case. He is not asking the residents ...

"The Australian industry group has welcomed the return of the COVID Summer rules which were previously in place prior to the most recent Victorian...

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews writes to the Prime Minister to confirm international flights into the state are on hold indefinitely as Melbourne council calls off Moomba.

Victoria’s health minister has slammed Facebook’s decision to block Australian news content from its platform, appealing to the social media giant to reinstate the flow of health-based news reports as soon as possible.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city, will relax its third lockdown on Wednesday and allow spectators to return to the Australian Open tennis tournament after a five-day

Have vaccine? Now get border clarity: Webjet Save Share Pre-tax profit ($m) -145.1 v 12.1 Net profit ($m) -132.2 v 9 Travel outfit Webjet says the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines should prompt government clarity about the triggers for opening domestic and international borders. Webjet managing director John Guscic argued it was realistic to seek clear policies even given the fluidity of the coronavirus, strands of which have mutated to become more contagious. Border closures have smashed the trave...