Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was heckled by rowdy protesters on Friday as she delayed action on climate change to consult a "citizens assembly", in a major announcement before elections. Security staff tackled one demonstrator to the ground and led him away in handcuffs, while chanting could be heard through ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia would take action on climate change when the economy was ready, but would not set up a carbon emissions trade scheme until after 2012 at the earliest, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Friday. Announcing her climate policy ahead of Australia's August 21 elections, Gillard stood ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Saturday called an August 21 election, vowing to tackle the flashpoint issues of refugees, the economy and global warming, just weeks after taking power. Gillard, 48, said she would ask the Australian people to endorse her leadership after she ruthlessly deposed former prime minister Kevin ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's ruling Labor party is set for a narrow victory in elections expected to be announced within weeks, two new opinion polls showed on Monday, but it is struggling over key policy issues on climate and asylum seekers. While the robust Australian economy, in its 17th year ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia faces an election within months and new Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said she will announce additional steps on fighting climate change before the poll. Climate change will be an election issue and analysts say Gillard must do something to win back voters angry over the government ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia's new leader should ramp up renewable energy use and enshrine tougher energy efficiency standards to fight global warming, leading climate scientists said on Tuesday, describing them as easy policy wins. Australia has struggled to get support for an emissions trading scheme that would put a price ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of major investors on Friday urged Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take swift action to fight climate change and cut carbon emissions blamed for heating up the planet. Gillard should outline her road map on climate change as soon as possible and set ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia is on track to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol climate pact in part because of the global economic downturn, the government said on Thursday. Australia, among the developed world's top greenhouse gas polluters on a per-capita basis, generates ...

Australia's ruling Labor Party is less popular than the conservative opposition for the first time in almost four years, an opinion poll indicated Tuesday, a week after the prime minister shelved plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Prime ...

Australia on Tuesday shelved plans for a carbon trading scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions until at least 2013, blaming the slow pace of global action and an obstructive opposition. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has described climate change as "the great moral challenge of our generation", said plans for ...