MP Turnbull's Australian Rain Corporation funding faces the axe ...

Federal government funding for the controversial Russian-sourced cloud seeding techology tests in SEQ face the axe - or at least whatever amount has not yet been paid out ...

Excerpt from the Australian:

Rudd to axe Howard's spending commitments

7 January 2008

Bureaucrats have been ordered to begin sifting through 225 individual spending commitments made by the Howard Government since last May to identify those that can be axed.
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Other commitments that could be axed include several sporting facilities in marginal electorates, a program to fund the design of an Australian semi-conductor chip, a $10million contribution to a private company developing cloud seeding technology, and $12.5million to support nuclear power research.
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See - Australian Rain Corporation funding faces axe.