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12:03 pm May 21, 2012
Defiant Australian legislator rejects brothel claims
An Australian member of parliament accused of spending union money on prostitutes said on Monday he had been framed by union rivals and he made no mention of resigning, which would threaten the government's thin majority.
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4:29 am May 21, 2012
Gillard pledges millions for Afghanistan's future
Prime Minister Julia Gillard signed a new strategic partnership agreement with Afghan president Hamid Karzai as a high level summit on Afghanistan's future got underway in Chicago this morning.
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7:43 am May 20, 2012
Hey Tony, your MPs and voters
Tony Abbott’s MPs want to decide for themselves whether to vote for marriage equality or not and are challenging the opposition leader to grant them a conscience vote on the issue, like Julia Gillard’s Labor Party has done.
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3:47 pm May 20, 2012
Nato summit to discuss withdrawal from Afghanistan
The G8 group of leading industrial nations promised to promote growth alongside fiscal responsibility and insisted on the need for Greece to stay in the eurozone.
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9:39 am May 20, 2012
Save Healthy Communities
Our only LGBT health and wellbeing organisation, the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities (‘Healthy Communities’), is to be defunded by Queensland Health it was announced today.
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1:59 pm May 19, 2012
Gay marriage on rocks
The LNP Government looks set to overturn controversial civil unions laws.
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11:21 pm May 16, 2012
Kelty points finger at Labor amid union woes
Union stalwart Bill Kelty has issued a reality check to the Labor Party, saying the hope and trust the Australian people once had in it has diminished.
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6:15 am May 14, 2012
Confessions of a Columnist
Mark Dapin reveals that life as a columnist isn’t always a bed of roses.
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7:10 am May 14, 2012
Gillard flags code of conduct amid Thomson affair
"I think that there is a need for, if people are proven to be guilty in some of these circumstances, that Parliament may need some greater power or have a process where they actually leave the building, " he said.
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2:58 am May 13, 2012
The polluting power of poisonous politics
We are witnessing the most disgraceful campaign of poisonous politics this country has ever experienced.
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4:45 pm May 10, 2012
Let's talk about the cover of today's Australian
Look, I know journalism is a difficult calling in the modern age.
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5:02 am May 10, 2012
Obama backs same-sex marriage
I consider marriage a sacred bond endorsed by God, and to put same sex perversion in the same classification as that is, and will always be wrong.
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2:00 am May 9, 2012
National Dental Scheme
PrintTo address this issue Government is delivering $346 million to help reduce waiting lists for those on low incomes trying to access dental services in public clinics.
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12:14 pm May 8, 2012
Facebook Like Can Get You Fired, Says Judge
Your First Amendment rights are probably the last thing you think about when you click the Like button on Facebook.
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5:24 am May 7, 2012
Pell. Deveny. Defamation. Twitter. Q&A.
For all the controversy I've gotten into with Twitter, I’ve never received an email from their legal department.
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9:32 am May 7, 2012
Budget will conquer political pressure: PM
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has promised a "fair go" budget for 2012/13, but the opposition believes it will be one of "spin" and fudged numbers because of the spending cuts needed to build a surplus.
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7:32 am May 6, 2012
Budget gift 'just a sugar hit' before carbon tax, says Joe Hockey
THE Federal Government is revamping the bonus for school children because it is panicked over the impact of the incoming carbon tax, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says.
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3:55 pm May 6, 2012
Leave Slipper matter for the court: Hockey
Senior coalition frontbencher Joe Hockey has called for an end to the public commentary over the sexual harassment accusations made against Speaker Peter Slipper.
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4:00 pm May 5, 2012
London win eases Cameron's UK vote setback
Boris Johnson dodged a humiliating nationwide defeat for Prime Minister David Cameron by winning London in local elections that saw voters angry at Britain's economic woes flock to opposition Labour and a right wing anti-European fringe party.
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11:18 am May 5, 2012
Julia Gillard can defeat Tony Abbott in 2013. But how does she neutralize Rupert Murdoch?
Saturday, 5 May 2012 09:10 by Ad astraThe ‘secret’ is out.
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2:33 pm May 4, 2012
Queensland Country Life
The man who for years tried to unseat Peter Slipper as a way of reviving his federal political career and even potential Liberal leadership is finally getting his chance.
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2:19 pm May 3, 2012
Gillard sees Australia as future food superpower
Ms Gillard has told an international summit in Melbourne that Australia needs to capitalise on the soaring regional need for food in the same way as it is currently doing with resources.
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4:02 am May 4, 2012
Gillard defends defence spending cuts
Prime Minister Julia Gillard insists there is no point giving Defence money it cannot actually spend.
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6:23 am May 3, 2012
3AW Podcasts: Download your favourites here
Gerard and Dwayne talk to Matt Finnis of the AFLPA about the latest move by the AFLPA and the AFL to have marijuana removed from the International Anti Doping Prohibited List.
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2:37 am May 3, 2012
ACTU boss coy on Gillard support
Incoming ACTU secretary Dave Oliver has declined to back Prime Minister Julia Gillard's leadership.
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12:04 pm May 2, 2012
HSU boss allegedly stopped during raid
The Health Services Union scandal has deepened with a police raid on union offices in Sydney and the discovery of documents in a nearby car park.
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2:17 pm May 2, 2012
The conspiracy of silence about Grahame ‘Kicker’ Morris
The mainstream media failed to adequately report on political insider Grahame Morris inciting violence upon the Aus managing editor David Donovan suggests why.
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5:17 am May 2, 2012
Hey 'Revenge' writers: be careful how you portray mental illness
What the hell is with the Tyler Barrol character in Revenge?
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7:17 am May 2, 2012
TripleM Brisbane
Funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen is in town promoting his new flick, 'The Dictator, ' and gave a pretty hilarious interview in character on the Today show this morning.
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5:33 am May 2, 2012
Kenneally wrong on carbon tax: Evans
The government's Senate leader Chris Evans says former NSW premier Kristina Keneally is wrong in saying the government should scrap the carbon tax.
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7:17 am May 2, 2012
Is Disability A Private Matter?
Why the widespread support for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a voucher scheme for disability cover?
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7:17 am May 2, 2012
Aid groups to meet with Carr
International aid groups will plead with Foreign Minister Bob Carr to deliver on a Labor promise to lift foreign aid levels.
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3:56 pm May 1, 2012
Prominent Liberal says Gillard should be kicked to death
Yesterday afternoon on News Ltd’s SkyNews cable TV channel, presenter David Speers interviewed John Howard’s former chief of staff, who is now a right wing political lobbyist.
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3:56 am May 1, 2012
A Hildebrand guide: how Labor destroyed itself
People looking for reasons for the ongoing implosion of the federal government are, it is fair to say, spoiled for choice.
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1:35 am May 1, 2012
Yesterday afternoon, prominent Liberal Party strategist Grahame Morris called, on SkyNews, for Julia Gillard to be kicked to death.
Apart from a small story in Fairfax, which downplayed the comment as a "quip", this brutal call to violence on Australia's female Prime Minister has not been apart from in Independent Australia.
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11:08 am May 2, 2012
Labor bleeding voters to Coalition
Labor frontbenchers are playing down the latest Newspoll which shows voter support has neared rock bottom.
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12:12 pm Apr 30, 2012
Abbott, Slipper and an unedifying lack of perspective
Find More StoriesIt's a truly terrible realisation, but the person most like Peter Slipper in the current Australian Parliament is none other than Tony Abbott.
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11:23 am Apr 30, 2012
Australian leader Julia Gillard vows to cling on to power
Dogged by allegations that lawmaker Craig Thomson had used a former employer's credit card to pay for prostitutes before he came to parliament, .
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10:32 am Apr 30, 2012
Let Gillard do her job as PM, says Wilkie
THE way Tony Windsor recalls it, Tony Abbott begged crossbench MPs to make him prime minister, joking ''the only thing I wouldn' but I'd have to give serious thought to it''.
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8:58 am Apr 30, 2012
Independents urged to ditch govt
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has called on key independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott to withdraw their support for the government.
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11:32 am Apr 29, 2012
Too little, too late for Gillard?
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has made an eleventh hour bid to try to shore up community faith in the integrity of the Australian parliament.
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9:44 am Apr 29, 2012
Gillard’s hypocrisy on the presumption of innocence
Journalists who report on politics for a living see plenty of hypocrisy.
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1:41 pm Apr 28, 2012
Blind Loyalty Makes Aussie MP A Global Web Hit
Mr Shorten was being quizzed on Sky News Australia about a statement made by Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
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11:32 pm Apr 28, 2012
Albo jumped the gun on Slipper: Pyne
Journalists who report on politics for a living see plenty of hypocrisy.
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12:58 pm Apr 28, 2012
2012-04-02 Australian Government's escalating hostility toward WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
After a public forum on WikiLeaks, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam made the following comment:The Australian Government has done the absolute bare minimum above stuff all to help this Australian citizen in trouble.
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5:18 am Apr 28, 2012
Oakes: Slippery slope for a weak PM
THE Slipper shemozzle is hurting Julia Gillard and she needs to act fast, writes Laurie Oakes.
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12:33 pm Apr 28, 2012
Slipper's slips don't exonerate him:Abbott
Supposed proof that Peter Slipper did not misuse taxpayer funded Cabcharge dockets is not enough for him to return to the Speaker's chair, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
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5:22 am Apr 3, 2012
A simple stencil can turn escalators into social commentary.
After a public forum on WikiLeaks, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam made the following comment:The Australian Government has done the absolute bare minimum above stuff all to help this Australian citizen in trouble.
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