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Sydney Morning Herald: Love conquers all - except La Gillardine
Canberra :: Australia | about 13 hours ago | No category
Source: Androscoggin News
There hasn't been much of it around in Canberra this week, with catfights and dog days and shout-downs dominating the last days of the 2008 parliamentary calendar...Coming just hours after he described the Deputy Prime Minister as "nasty", this was...
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Breath tests for MPs?
Canberra :: Australia | about 18 hours ago | Political News
Source: The Globe & Mail
Politicians in Australia's most populous state could be breath-tested for alcohol before voting on laws after a series of late-night incidents that have embarrassed the centre-left government. New South Wales state lawmaker Andrew Fraser resigned from his Conservative opposition frontbench...
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Albanese lashes out at slow-moving Senate
Canberra :: Australia | about 21 hours ago | Political News
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Manager of Government Business Anthony Albanese says Parliament will not finish today as scheduled. There was a tone of bemusement in the House of Representatives this afternoon, as Mr Albanese explained that the delay has been caused by the slow...
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MP faces investigation over protest photo
Canberra :: Australia | 2 days ago | No category
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
This afternoon at the front of Parliament House a man protesting an immigration matter poured petrol on himself and tried to set himself alight. James Bidgood, the Labor MP for the Queensland seat of Dawson, was at a nearby event...
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Seeing double in a tailor-made space
Canberra :: Australia | 1 day ago | Entertainment News
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
The nation's best portraits are given room to breathe in the spacious halls of a purpose built gallery, writes Catherine Keenan. We look to a portrait gallery to tell us something about ourselves, says Andrew Sayers, director of the National...
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Hamdan and Guantanamo
Canberra :: Australia | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Source: Florida Weekly
Seven years ago, President Bush established rules for the detention and trial of suspected terrorists. This past week, one of the best-known terror detainees returned home to his native Yemen. The repatriation of Salim Hamdan, one-time driver and bodyguard for...
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Sydney Morning Herald: Balance jobs with climate protection: Wong
Canberra :: Australia | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Source: Uinta County News
The Federal Government will balance the interests of the economy and the environment in its planned emissions trading scheme, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says. Some Labor MPs, especially those in electorates where heavy emitters operate, are concerned at the...
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RBA tipped to cut rates again
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 month ago | Business News
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Last month the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) stunned observers by taking the official interest rate from seven to 6 per cent...That would take the official rate to 5.5 per cent, its lowest level since May 2006. NabCapital senior economist...
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Companies freeze funds amid deposit guarantee fears
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 month ago | Business News
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
At least three Australian investment companies have suspended withdrawals from their mortgage and commercial property funds, with more expected to follow. The Federal Government's decision not to include the wealth management industry in its bank deposit guarantee scheme is now...
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Australia caps bank deposit guarantees
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 month ago | Business News
Source: United Press International
The Australian government said it would impose a fee for wealthy depositors choosing to switch accounts to banks guaranteed by the government. Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said about $21 billion in mortgages and other funds was now frozen by financial...
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