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200 document(s) in Politics.
It's Time For What?
Are today's youth bored with mainstream politics, or are they just organising themselves differently? Carmel Egan looks at how activism is moving online.
The Sunday Age 22/11/2009
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In this climate Australians lead, Americans lag behind
Climate change may be on the boil again in Australia but it remains on the backburner in the US. The Rudd Government insists that the Senate must vote again on its carbon pollution reduction scheme before next month's Copenhagen summit. Barack Obama talked up the fight against climate change in Asia this week but the US Senate will not even begin considering America's version of such a scheme until well into next year.
Sydney Morning Herald 21/11/2009
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Come Sunday, it'll be all right
Nathan wants some good news to announce on Sunday," said Philpott. "Something for the TV news bulletins on Sunday night. A big headline. Any ideas ?"
Sydney Morning Herald 21/11/2009
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Patience becomes a PM on the move
Kevin Rudd arrived home early this morning from six days in Afghanistan, India and Singapore. He will be home for less than a fortnight before jetting off to Trinidad and Tobago for the three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). About a fortnight after that he will leave Australia again for the international climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Sydney Morning Herald 16/11/2009
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Farmers cheer ETS win
FARMERS would be exempt from the emissions trading scheme in the first concessions the Federal Government has made to the Opposition to gain its support.
Sun Herald 15/11/2009
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Sugar and spice and all things nice: a safe god for politicians
Joe Hockey has followed his old sparring partner, Kevin Rudd, by going public about religion while serving as a member of the shadow cabinet.
Sydney Morning Herald 14/11/2009
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Father of the house, Rev Fred, to retire
AFTER 28 years as the NSW Parliament's leading morals campaigner, the Christian Democrats' MP the Reverend Fred Nile will not seek re-election and plans to leave politics at the end of his term.
Sydney Morning Herald 12/11/2009
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Pilger loath to hear the roar of dissent
Contrary to the cliche, silence can be deafening. Certainly this seems to have been the message of and the enthusiastic response to John Pilger's 2009 Sydney Peace Prize address, Breaking the Australian Silence, which was delivered in Sydney last Thursday. The speaker was verbally forthright, the audience audibly appreciative.
Sydney Morning Herald 10/11/2009
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It's a beige new world when politicians are protected from themselves
Don Ward isn't usually punched for telling passers-by their shoes need polishing. But on Monday someone took a wayward swing at the Manhattan shoeshiner, yelling: Why don't you get an education so you can get a real job!
Sydney Morning Herald 07/11/2009
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Australia and Fiji in tit-for-tat expulsions
FIJI's acting high commissioner to Australia was formally expelled by the Rudd Government yesterday after being ordered home by his country's military dictator, Frank Bainimarama.
The Age 05/11/2009
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