Displaying all ' Tony Abbott '
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4:29 am May 21, 2012
Mr Hockey, we cannot afford not to have a NDIS
Comment"When it comes to the NDIS, I am Dr Yes, " was Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's statement when he attended the NDIS rally in Perth last month.
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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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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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10:09 am May 18, 2012
Emma paints it Blue for her people - Official AFL Website of the Carlton Football Club
When Emma MacNeill got word from boyfriend Mitch Robinson that Carlton sought her support for the AFL’s Indigenous Round she couldn’t wait to lift a brush.
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12:26 pm May 18, 2012
The Jackson and Lawler HSU tangle: Part Two
Peter Wicks reports on more murky events involving HSU union boss “whistleblower” Kathy Jackson, and the Vice President of the organisation charged with investigating her serious her partner, Michael Lawler.
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5:11 am May 17, 2012
DAYS OF WHINE AND POSEURS
It’s like standing next to a thousand people running their fingernails down a blackboard.
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6:33 am May 17, 2012
Cigarette giant British American Tobacco Australia chops up the prices
TOBACCO company British American Tobacco Australia (BATA) says it has been forced to start selling cheap smokes to try to win back market share from illegal products and to compete in the expanding "cheap" cigarette market.
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4:59 am May 17, 2012
Slash tour in August
Slash is set to return to Australia in August making his second visit Down Under this year following his surprise cameo on stage with Myles Kennedy and Alter Bridge at Soundwave in Sydney.
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7:21 am May 16, 2012
Meet the anti-Craig Thomson
He turned up on the stage of the Sydney Convention Centre yesterday looking like he was outfitted by a tailor legally barred from using the endorsement “bespoke”, and with a hairdo a trainee mate might have tended to.
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4:04 am May 16, 2012
Police investigating leaked Kevin Rudd video
Federal police have launched an investigation into the leaking of a video that showed former prime minister Kevin Rudd swearing and thumping a desk.
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12:30 pm May 16, 2012
Penny Wong, Joe Hockey and the dire state of political punditry
If there is a turning point in the Australian debate on same sex marriage it may well be Penny Wong’s remarkable grace and honesty when answering Joe Hockey on last night’s Q&A.
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3:18 pm May 16, 2012
Craig Thomson Resign Now
It appears the Government can no longer count on bipartisan support for its National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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7:23 am May 15, 2012
The philosophy of Tony Abbott in three easy pictures
Cartoonist Gee follows the leader of the Opposition's progression from seminarian, through tuition by News Limited propagandists, to eager Prime Minister in-waiting.
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9:26 am May 15, 2012
An appalling story. Is this really Australia, 2012?
Young Sri Lankan widow Ranjini and her two little boys aged six and nine, are trapped.
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12:13 pm May 15, 2012
Doctors for the Family see some Australians as more equal than others
George Orwell’s mordant satire of politics and bureaucratic doublespeak famously featured the slogan that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.
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11:35 am May 14, 2012
Is Abbott consciously lying on NBN costs?
news Opposition Leader Tony Abbott appears to have again misrepresented the cost of connecting to National Broadband Network fibre infrastructure, in comments which the Government has said represent a deliberate attempt to mislead the Australian public on…
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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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8:32 am May 12, 2012
Fun plans to set up marriage equality group
Guitarist Jack Antonoff told the Washington Post, "We're firm believers in the idea that if you’re not talking about it, you’re part of the problem.
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12:44 am May 12, 2012
Angry voter backlash to Gillard Government's budget bribes
JULIA Gillard's carbon tax budget bribe has backfired spectacularly, with the majority of voters believing they will be worse off despite thousands of dollars a year in extra handouts and tax cuts.
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7:54 am May 11, 2012
PM's class war line offensive: Hockey
All Australians should be offended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard's playing of class warfare, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says.
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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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1:17 pm May 9, 2012
Is Our Carbon Tax Really The Biggest?
One of Tony Abbott's favourite stock phrases is that we've got the world's biggest carbon tax.
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2:10 pm May 9, 2012
School kids bonus passes parliament
More than one million families with school children will receive a cash bonus next month after the lower house of parliament passed Tuesday's budget measure.
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8:41 am May 9, 2012
Gillard should apologise to the North Shore
Attacking the Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott today, Ms Gillard said, ‘Mr Abbott’s got to get off Sydney’s North Shore and go and talk to some real families and get himself in the real world’.
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3:18 pm May 9, 2012
Australia govt unveils surplus budget to revive support
Australia's government delivered its promised surplus budget on Tuesday, scrapping planned tax breaks but offering more cash to its traditional supporters to deflect attention from scandals that threaten Prime Minister Julia Gillard's grip on power.
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12:20 pm May 9, 2012
Forecast surplus is a charade: Abbott
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the federal government's forecast surplus of $1.5 billion is a charade that even the treasurer doubts can be delivered.
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4:42 pm May 8, 2012
Govt pushes back foreign aid increase
The rapid growth of the federal government's overseas aid program will be slowed, to help get the national budget back into surplus.
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9:00 am May 8, 2012
Windsor standing by Labor
Key independent Tony Windsor is standing by the federal government despite a scathing report about former Labor MP Craig Thomson.
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4:09 am May 8, 2012
Swan sets test with budget surplus pledge
The Federal Government has set itself a political test by promising to turn a deficit of about $37 billion this year into a surplus in tonight's federal budget.
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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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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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8:48 am May 4, 2012
Home Energy Saver Scheme to help vulnerable Australians
Financially vulnerable Australians are a step closer to being well equipped with tools to be more energy efficient, with the appointment of 19 not for-profit organisations to help deliver the Home Energy Saver Scheme.
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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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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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8:28 am May 3, 2012
Abbott backs away from GST changes
The Federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has backed away from his support for the GST to be carved up on a per capita basis.
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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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11:37 am May 2, 2012
Tony Abbott Is A Hypocrite, A Coward And A Liar
Tony Abbott is unfit for the office of Prime Minister because he is a hypocrite, a coward and a liar.
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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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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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3:37 pm Apr 30, 2012
“Tony, (confidentially) you are a fuckwit.”
What was the last “Abbott administration” like?
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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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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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12:50 pm Apr 30, 2012
Disability insurance scheme a gateway to change
The anguish is palpable amongst the thousands of pages that make up the report of the Productivity Commission's Inquiry into Disability Care and Support.
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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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7:07 am Apr 30, 2012
Explainer: motions of no confidence and the constitution
After declaring the Gillard government was entering its “endgame”, opposition leader Tony Abbott is believed to be preparing to table a motion of no confidence.
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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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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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6:37 am Apr 28, 2012
Set the record straight
DEAR Voter, Forgive the impertinence of a national mail out, and the cost which will bounce back on you, but I have no choice but to explain the outrageous slurs being levelled at my character by unseemly journalists who refuse to respect my position as…
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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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12:59 pm Apr 24, 2012
Tony Abbott says if the RBA cuts rates today ... ah, the bank meets next week...
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2:55 pm Apr 18, 2012
Crucial Tony Abbott stops talking down the Aussie economy – describing us as ‘underperforming’ despite big tick from IMF this morning
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF slightly upgraded its growth forecast for 2012 from 3.25 per cent to 3.5 per cent, accelerating to 4.1 per cent in 2013.
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