Kevin Rudd

Watch out for Bishop's axe (AAP)

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Nov 15, 2008 1 related
        

Deputy Opposition leader Julie Bishop has joked that she might take an axe to her critics after revealing she once did so against her sisters. Ms Bishop recently told the Network Ten's Good News Week program that when her...

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K.C. BOEY/Letter from Australia: Obama - inspiration and reality

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Nov 16, 2008 32 related
        

"I HAVE a dream ..." 45 years after Martin Luther King junior uttered those words that was to define the American civil rights movement, the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States has fired the imagination...

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Mayors converge on Parliament House (AAP)

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Nov 16, 2008
        

More than 550 mayors are converging on Canberra for the first Council of Australian Local Government meeting. The two-day talkfest at Parliament House, starting on Monday, will be attended by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd . The...

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Saving the world – and Australia too

thestar.com.my
Nov 16, 2008
        

Insight: Down Under By JEFFREY FRANCIS NOTHING pleases the Greenies more than to have Kevin Rudd as prime minister. Last week, he bailed out the struggling car industry in Australia with a A$6.2bil lifeline with one condition....

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Obama, Rudd must end the Afghan war

greenleft.org.au
Nov 16, 2008
        

The November 7 Sydney Morning Herald reported that an advisor to US president-elect Barack Obama, Jeffrey Bader, had stated that the “first priority” of the Obama administration would be to seek a greater contribution from...

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AUSTRALIA: Flying the socialist flag

greenleft.org.au
Nov 16, 2008
        

Start with the opportunities. The local government campaigns have also brought the Socialist Alliance into closer contact with migrant left and socialist movements, and with the working-class communities that support them, like...

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AUSTRALIA: The car companies that eat our future have their hands out — again!

greenleft.org.au
Nov 16, 2008
        

AUSTRALIA The car companies that eat our future have their hands out — again! In Australia, PM Kevin Rudd has already obliged car manufacturers by doubling Howard’s corporate welfare cheque to A$6.2 billion. However, according...

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AUSTRALIA: War and peace

greenleft.org.au
Nov 16, 2008
        

On Armistice Day, November 11, anti-war protesters marked the end of the war that was supposed to end all wars with “troops out” banners and placards outside the US consulate. Sydney Stop the War Coalition (STWC) is campaigning...

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‘No evidence to justify Iraq War ’

thenews.com.pk
Nov 16, 2008 6 related
        

Sunday, November 16, 2008 SYDNEY: Australia’s former military chief has said there was no evidence to justify going to war in Iraq in 2003, a report said on Saturday. Admiral Chris Barrie, who headed the Australian Defence...

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NZ Institute calls for economic summit

radionz.co.nz
Nov 16, 2008
        

Updated at 9:52pm on 16 November 2008 The head of a business think tank is urging the new government to look at a wide-ranging summit over the challenges facing the country. The New Zealand Institute has been calling for...

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