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AAP Federal deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop has defended the coalition from suggestions it has inflamed the asylum seeker debate. The opposition's justice and customs spokeswoman Sussan Ley asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd...
MICHAEL BACHELARD November 22, 2009 TED Baillieu's leadership will survive The Sunday Age poll today, even though it shows he may be alienating his party's base and dampening the Liberal vote, insiders say. ''It's absolutely...
Dharamsala, November 21: The Dalai Lama Visit Trust New Zealand has urged the country's Prime Minister John Key to keep his pre-election promise to meet the exiled Tibetan leader. Mr Key said on Wednesday he would not meet the...
THE Victorian ALP has increased pressure on the Federal Government to allow same-sex marriages after passing a motion supporting gay unions at its state conference. A meeting of the party faithful in Melbourne today called for...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has praised the efforts of the men and women who served in Operation Catalyst during the Iraq war, calling them the "ANZACs of today". Mr Rudd, Governor-General Quentin Bryce and Air Chief Marshal...
A national welcome-home march has taken place at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to mark the end of Australia's military operations in Iraq. A total of 17,000 defence personnel were sent to Iraq after the 2003 US-led...
Sniffer dog that went missing in action after Afgan battle is discovered safe and sound after 14 MONTHS lost in the desert By Mail Foreign Service November 14th, 2009 MAILONSUNDAY.CO.UK A sniffer dog that went missing in action...
THE Federal Government will provide $42.8 million to extend the school chaplaincy program until December 2011. The announcement, to be made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the Australian Christian Lobby's annual conference in...
Kevin Rudd says sorry for a past evil CEREMONIES in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra are typically attended by visiting royals, heads of state and other dignitaries. On November 16th several hundred ordinary,...
Indonesia has begun negotiating a new arrangement to handle asylum seekers with the Rudd Government as the country's foreign affairs minister called on Australia to ''share the burden'' of immigrants streaming through the...
