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Australia lifts ban on uranium to India

By Sun, Dec 04, 2011 2:12PM UTC View Comments Uranium mine photographed by SBS

For the first time in 40 years, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard officially announced its uranium export to India citing an effort to boost bilateral trade between Australia and “one of the world’s largest democracies.” Following a heated debate on Sunday, the ruling Labor party headed by Gillard voted to lift its long-standing ban on...

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Organic vs nuclear – which is more deadly?

By Tue, Jun 07, 2011 5:19AM UTC View Comments Vegetable plot in Hong Kong's New Territories. Pic: AP.

It looks like the ShadowLands blog went way too early in blaming the poor organic Spanish cucumber growers for the E. coli outbreak, and I am happy to make a retraction on that score – but the finger of suspicion is now pointing at organic beans. So we were wrong about the cucumbers, and while...

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