Bob Brown News

Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board members Wednesday approved an average 4 percent premium increase for insurees -- but rejected a proposal to instead have a flat $6- to $8-a-month increase in employee premiums.

Two days out from the Higgins byelection Malcolm Mackerras, Australia's leading psephologist, predicted a Greens victory.

An ideological argument for a single, government-run system is driving the health care bill on the Senate floor, according to the former president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.

A vote on the government's emissions trading scheme should happen by the end of Tuesday, the Australian Greens say.

The Australian Business has reported that Australian Senator and Green Party leader Bob Brown said it was time for the Australian government to follow the lead of the Gordon Brown and Barack Obama administrations in Britain and the US and take action against tax avoidance.

It has been revealed that Australian Greens leader Bob Brown and millionaire businessman Dick Smith were involved in the ransom deal to help free Australian journalist Nigel Brennan and his Canadian colleague Amanda Lindhout in Somalia.

Millionaire businessman Dick Smith and Greens leader Bob Brown have contributed money to secure the freedom of kidnapped Australian journalist Nigel Brennan, Mr Smith told ABC2 this morning.

The Regina cross country team will host its ninth annual Legend of the Fall Trail Run and Walk through Hickory Hill Park at 8 a.m. Thanksgiving morning.

The monthly a oeCountry Jama held Friday night at the Emo Legion was extremely successful, with several new musicians and guests coming from far and wide to take part in the musical evening.

Bob Brown used his van to pull down the charred remains of his back porch earlier this week.

Barack Obama praised freedom of expression and political participation and criticised internet censorship as he spoke to students in Shanghai today, in the only public meeting scheduled for his three-day visit to China .

A decade on from a referendum defeat, republicans are again calling for a change to Australia's constitution.

The Lee County School District's director of procurement resigned from his position last week, about the same time Superintendent James Browder ordered a full audit of past transactions with Office Depot.

As Sandy Springs readies for just its second citywide election, voters have a wide range of choices to lead the toddler of a city.

Kevin Andrews says Pauline Hanson was raising issues many Australians wanted to talk about.

Climate change and the treatment of asylum seekers will be key campaign issues of the new Greens candidate in the by-election for the blue ribbon Liberal seat of Higgins.

The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts.

The Brown brothers, two years apart and the middle of eight siblings, get along very well.

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ENVIRONMENT Minister Peter Garrett yesterday confirmed Labor has dropped the idea of pushing World Heritage listing for Antarctica.