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Swiss citizens head to the polls to decide on two popular initiatives and three facultative referendums regarding a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, police measures to combat terrorism, the existing carbon tax policy, and a potential nationwide ban on the use of synthetic pesticides.
2021-06-13

The High Court of Australia rules that Rod Culleton was ineligible for election as a candidate for Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Western Australia in the Federal election and is ineligible to serve in the Senate of Australia.
2017-02-3

The Parliament of Australia votes to abolish a carbon tax and emissions trading scheme.
2014-07-17

Voters in the Australian state of Western Australia go to the polls for a Federal Senate election.
2014-04-5

Bob Brown resigns as Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and from the Senate.
2012-04-13

The International Air Transport Association calls for the United Nations to intervene in the dispute between the People's Republic of China and the European Union over airlines' involvement in the EU's carbon tax scheme for airlines.
2012-02-12

The House of Representatives of Australia passes the Gillard government's carbon tax legislation.
2011-10-12

The Africa Carbon Exchange, Africa's first carbon exchange which will trade in carbon credits a form of carbon pricing, opens in Kenya.
2011-03-24

Thousands of people gather in Canberra, Australia to protest the introduction of a carbon tax, Prime Minister Julia Gillard met the Australian Youth Climate Coalition which is pushing for a price on emissions, while climate change mitigation activists including the Australian Council of Trade Unions delivered a petition to Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet signed by about 10,000 "working Australians" urging the government to take action.
2011-03-23

Australia's Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, says that the government's plans to impose a carbon tax, part of a phase-in of an emissions trading program, will impact less than 1,000 companies.
2011-03-7