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Bill Kerr (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just heard a funny story via someone who has been working in remote Australia (near the border of SA, WA and NT) on the " no school, no pool " program. State Labour Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister Jay Weatherill paid a visit and asked an aboriginal person: "What did you think about Kevin Rudd's stolen generation speech in Canberra" Said person said he would need to consult with some...
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The Age (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's co-operative federalism looks to be a little frayed the seams.
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
GARNAUT has given Rudd more policy flexibility and better political options on a nightmare issue.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
... and territories. The last victory for Labor was at the general election in November when Kevin Rudd defeated the Liberal government led by John Howard. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, a Perth resident, said 10 Labor seats appeared to be lost and that the Liberals would almost certainly be forming a new government. "If you had to put your money on it, you would have to bet on the Liberals,"...
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Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
After three budget knock backs Rudd reiterates $6 billion coalition raid claim. 5 Sep 2008 9:29 AM
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Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Jamie Walker; 5/9/08 The $1.6 billion land fund that has delivered almost 1 per cent of Australia’s continental mass to Aborigines faces historic change, with the federal Government considering a new deal to underwrite it. The proposal, if adopted by Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, would give the Indigenous Land Corporation a guaranteed income of at [...]
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
THE Senate has voted down a key budget measure in a brutal display of the difficulties that are facing Kevin Rudd without an upper house majority.
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has put Belinda Neal on notice with a thinly-veiled warning she will be stripped of preselection should she have another behavioural lapse.
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Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has warned the Taliban that Australia will not back away from the war in Afghanistan as Coalition forces prepare for more bloodshed.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
THE 2.7 per cent rate of annual growth reported in today's national accounts represents a reasonable outcome given the international challenges the country faces, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered a sharp rebuke to big business for seeking emissions trading concessions. Rudd told a gathering of the Australian Industry (Ai) Group that trying to avoid financial pain under...
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Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Economists call on govt to open talks with Beijing. 4 Sep 2008 3:59 PM
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Roland Rudd: The EU has a history of fine words but empty gestures in international crises. But on Russia it must act and act together
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Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The Rudd Government needs a narrative, yes. But there’s a difference between promoting a narrative and chucking an idea a day into the news cycle, writes Bernard Keane .
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Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Patricia Karvelas & Matthew Franklin; 2/9/08 Kevin Rudd is poised to use a $76 billion nation-building infrastructure program to tackle indigenous disadvantage by insisting Aborigines be recruited to work on dozens of new roads, ports and railway projects across the nation. The Prime Minister’s hand-picked business adviser Rod Eddington, who heads the Government’s Infrastructure Australia organisation,...