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PNG to hold elections - ABC Online |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 09:15 |
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After one of the most turbulent years in PNG's political history it's now up to the people to decide who their leaders will be. Up to 4000 candidates are set to run for seasts in the June elections. ELIZABETH JACKSON: There were times when it didn't ....
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Failed by system that nabs the naive - Sydney Morning Herald |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 01:15 |
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His main priority in life is to make enough money to feed his family and pay rent for their dilapidated one-room hut, in a village that resembles what Australians would call a rubbish tip. He doesn't read newspapers or discuss the politics of asylum ....
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Diplomat stays on guard - The Canberra Times |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:15 |
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Amid the war and politics of his homeland is what the ambassador says is Israel's largely untold story. Eighteen months ago, numerous Middle Eastern leaders looked stable in their palaces: Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Bashar ....
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The Question: Has apathy overtaked urgency in the debate on climate action? - Sydney Morning Herald |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:15 |
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Both sides of politics accept the science and both have committed to cutting Australia's emissions by 5 per cent by 2020. It also needs to be recognised that it is this commitment that is the most important driver of what it will cost the economy....
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Ballot box is still the best referee - WA today |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:15 |
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VERY few things are new in politics, and so it was this week as the Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper dramas reignited talk about parliamentary ethics and a code of conduct for federal MPs. When confronted with scandal, politicians are often keen to talk ....
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Joh - era politics? Not quite, says Aboriginal historian - Brisbane Times |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:15 |
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They chose to replicate the Canberra Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Musgrave Park for obvious reasons, he says. ''Because it is the one place for Aboriginal people in Brisbane that is left,'' he says, laughing. ''I mean, they don't want to go and sit in a ....
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Ballot box is still the best referee - Brisbane Times |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 13:15 |
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VERY few things are new in politics, and so it was this week as the Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper dramas reignited talk about parliamentary ethics and a code of conduct for federal MPs. When confronted with scandal, politicians are often keen to talk ....
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Gillard trapped in a blame game - The Australian |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:15 |
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This budget shows which Australia I want, and the Liberal Party's response has nailed their colours to the mast as well,' Swan said in a full embrace of the political campaign behind the budget. Abbott's response, that Swan 'deliberately, coldly, ....
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The powerful spin of Abbott's wrecking ball - The Age |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:15 |
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The day before, speaking to the same ACTU Congress, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, had blamed her woes, in part, on the fact that Australians had been ''screamed at'' by the opposition for more than a year and also on the ''the schlock and horror ....
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Charge of the mates brigade will fail - Brisbane Times |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 09:15 |
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Rather, it's a way of reviewing the political disaster that the Australian Labor Party has imposed on itself. It's one of the questions most commonly asked about Labor's performance in the past few years: 'How could they be so hopeless?...
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When the Concert Party ruled politics - Sydney Morning Herald |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 09:15 |
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In 1988, on the last night of parliament in the old white wedding cake that was Canberra's parliament house before its inhabitants moved up the hill to their new billion-dollar digs, Hawke and John Howard linked arms and bellowed Solidarity Forever ....
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Cooking up a deal across the Timor Sea - The Age |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 09:15 |
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Out of all the colonies, few would then have rated Timor's chances very high of establishing its independence, a democratic political system and economic progress. Within three months that independence seemed blocked forever, by Indonesia's forceful ....
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Small world - The Australian blog |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 03:15 |
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EVEN at Tokyo's Nihon Press Club yesterday, Foreign Minister Bob Carr couldn't escape the relentless drumbeat of Australian domestic politics. The first hint that the Asahi Shimbun reporter's question wasn't going to be the standard fare on free trade ....
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Gusmao backs Aussie links over gas - The Australian |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:15 |
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'In terms of politics, economics, diplomacy, sometimes there are things we don't agree on, but that does not mean there is not a good relationship.' As well as celebrating the first Independence Day in 2002, Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the ....
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When the Concert Party ruled politics - The Age |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:15 |
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In 1988, on the last night of parliament in the old white wedding cake that was Canberra's parliament house before its inhabitants moved up the hill to their new billion-dollar digs, Hawke and John Howard linked arms and bellowed Solidarity Forever ....
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The powerful spin of Abbott's wrecking ball - Sydney Morning Herald |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:15 |
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The day before, speaking to the same ACTU Congress, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, had blamed her woes, in part, on the fact that Australians had been ''screamed at'' by the opposition for more than a year and also on the ''the schlock and horror ....
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Charge of the mates brigade will fail - Sydney Morning Herald |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:15 |
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Rather, it's a way of reviewing the political disaster that the Australian Labor Party has imposed on itself. It's one of the questions most commonly asked about Labor's performance in the past few years: 'How could they be so hopeless?...
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Abbott in a huddle with corporates - The Australian |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:15 |
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The meetings are aimed at assuring companies that the Coalition is fit for government at a time when executives express nagging doubts about Mr Abbott's populist politics. Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey hosted a dinner at his Sydney home for .... Read more...
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Source: RBA, ABS Source: The Australian - The Australian |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:15 |
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THE economic and political meltdown in Greece offers Australia more warnings than answers at the moment. The obvious economic warning is don't wait for a deep recession before trying to fix a bloated budget. The more stunning political warning is the ....
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scandals taint all politicians - Herald Sun |
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:15 |
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'It is a very honourable profession, politics,' the shadow treasurer said. It was the day after Craig Thomson's extraordinary 'I was framed over hookers' interview, with its claims of the most elaborate identity theft plot in the annals of Australian ....
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