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- How Bligh will be judged
- PM's staffer set off protest
- Coe the 'charlatan'
- Gillard's Cinderella moment
- So tired of waking up tired?
From building bridges to the health scandal, Anna Bligh's 4½ years as premier have had their ups and downs.
Jullia Gillard's staffer quits after disclosing whereabouts of Tony Abbott prior to ugly protest incident.
The shoe and the self-appointed spokesman for Aborigines.
The world's press had had plenty to say about yesterday's drama, even comparing the PM to Elvis and Cinderella.
Ever wondered why it is so hard to get out of bed and get moving on a cloudy, rainy day?
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- Emboldened conservatives need to beware of the Katter factor
- The fear comes flooding back as the waters rise again
- Phone images capture a moral minefield
- In a league of her own
- Changing gears on the factory floor
- Top gongs, a double ton and a doubled fortune
- Families with two cultures build new bonds
- Starving and dying for a beer, duo finish South Pole return trip
- Time drags for young who live at home
- Accident rate falls even with more trucks on roads
- Adventurers court danger, say consulates
- Dignity very important but police say security wins
- Shoe in custody as protesters give Gingerella the slipper
- Tonga's church, built in hope, faith and pride, collapses in debt
- Coalition zeroes in on cyber bullies
- Sense of adventure putting Australian tourists at risk
- Seven years' jail for man whose 'despicable' act ruined Heather's life
- PM accused of protest cover-up
- 'Rogue' marshal sounds alarm
- Abbott says he was misunderstood
- Far from the madding crowd, PM honours heroes
- PM bodyguards' actions defended
- The sole survivor returned to guard
- Family honours Daniel
- Gillard left red-faced after Abbott leak
- Aboriginal protesters torch Australian flag outside Parliament
- 'Julia Gillard Shoe' for sale on eBay
- Activists taunt 'Gingerella' to lodge claim for the stolen shoe
- PM must make call on Craig Thomson: Abbott
- I hadn't heard Abbott's comments, embassy leader admits
- World's press compares Julia Gillard to Cinderella and Elvis: how the international media reported the Prime Minister's dramatic restaurant exit
- Laos' river of booze and tubes may be river of no return
- Blue note: scientists use sound to find lost giants of the deep
- Caesarean babies face infections, says study
- Marriage made easier for same-sex couples
- Policy change helps gay couples marry overseas
- Refugee was snubbed at ceremony, son says
- 3000 new citizens join weird and wonderful mob
- Downpours, floods keep north coast on alert
- Australia Day shame
- Hair test for breast cancer on the horizon
- Refugee disgusted by council 'snub' at citizenship ceremony
- Tasmania more fun than blisters in the sun
- National toll at its lowest but deaths rise in older road users
- Tremendous privilege, says a champion of engineering
- Adverse findings against Thomson
- Australia Day turns ugly
- Hogg caught out on religious slur
- Gotye tops the Hot 100
- Bishops call for detention limits
- Gamble at the birth of a nation
- Bell gets gong for leading the way
- Chief rabbi upholds role of science
- Companion piece for Bonynge completes rare double
- Green groups query 'drill now, pay later' scheme
- Ricky's redemption: Ponting recognised after shaky start
- Rudd aims worthy of support, says Evans
- Sport innovations take pride of place for a Masters at work
- Importing people to pour beers
- Inflation a 'dead duck' as costs dip
- Bligh the underdog as state heads for election
- Abbott offers sneak peek
- After 15 years, MP to swap national for local
- Attack on 'drill now, pay later' tax breaks
- Bowen defends Nauru costings
- D'oh! Albanese embarrassed, plagiarising film president
- Evans backs Rudd on foreign efforts
- Greens reform aims to slow spin rate of problem gamblers
- Opera House boss moves over to BridgeClimb
- Scientists urge unis to axe alternative medicine courses
- Taxman pulls up socks and eases cash drain on uniforms
- And the Australian of the Year is ... Geoffrey Rush
- Cricketer, sailor, conductor on honours list
- Women's advocates criticise inequities
- King tide surge pushes into flooded northern rivers
- Nauru's hefty price tag would ease tension and riots - report
- Soaring cost of spy force passes $1b
- Starring role for Rush, the clown prince of acting
- War of words set to go into top gear
- Sleep on country
- Geoffrey Rush named Australian of the Year
- An Oscar for Albanese?
- Top dog shows his colours
- Sick or drunk: Friday is Unaustralia Day
- To tweet or not to tweet
- A pokies trial in the ACT is bordering on the futile
- Abbott rejects no-lose deal
- IMF may ask Australia to contribute to $1000bn pool
- Logans returning from family reunion when killed by truck
- More single mothers now working, says study
- $2b Nauru detention bill overblown: opposition
- Painting reported stolen, 12 years on
- Review justifies huge changes for spy agencies
- Court's gay views cruel, says Tsiolkas
- Bowen reveals $1.6b cost of Nauru option in letter to Morrison
- Told I'd grow out of it: sodomised boy punished by court, now seeks pardon as a man
- Extreme weather threat across Australia
- Rinehart racing to top of list of world's wealthiest
- Work tribunal endorses Qantas engineers' deal
- Boom time hits manufacturing hard
QUEENSLAND goes to the polls on March 24 with the real prospect of the election delivering a change of government.
AS BRISBANE steamed in the wake of this week's torrential downpours, with more rain due soon, victims of last year's flood disaster teetered between logic and emotion.
How far should citizen journalists go? Geesche Jacobsen investigates.
A strong drive and sense of fair play carry rugby league's latest recruit over the line.
Do we keep building cars or not? There's no simple answer.
Some upbeat stuff to start, for a change. Geoffrey Rush was named Australian of the Year. Former bad-boy Ricky Ponting celebrated his Order of Australia award by hitting a double century.
AS SYDNEY'S Chinese community prepares for tomorrow night's Twilight Parade, the big event of the Chinese New Year festival, the occasion holds special significance for one small group.
Triumphant adventurers now just need their plane to land, writes Peter FitzSimons.
WHILE most people complain of having too much to do and too little time to do it, almost 1 million Australians say they have time on their hands - and it is not a happy condition.
THE number of big trucks on the roads has increased at double the rate of cars, and many in the industry feel that so too has the amount of blame directed at trucks for road accidents.
WITH more Australians travelling overseas and increasingly to more adventurous locations, an average 1600 are getting into trouble each day, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
THE federal police have defended the actions of the prime ministerial bodyguards who dragged a stumbling Julia Gillard from a tent embassy protest, amid claims they overreacted and have diminished the dignity of Ms Gillard's office.
INDIGENOUS elders have challenged Julia Gillard to walk a mile in their shoes - all the while holding the Prime Minister's own blue suede shoe to ransom.
SPORTING a black homburg and a silver-topped cane, the newly crowned King George Tupou V of Tonga looked every bit as grand as the $10 million church he had crossed the Pacific to open.
A new Coalition taskforce aims to protect children and teens from cyber-bullying.
An average of 1600 Australians a day are getting into trouble overseas.
Events of unimaginable sadness are often played out in front of a handful of observers.
JULIA GILLARD'S staff were last night fighting off allegations of a cover-up after the Prime Minister accepted the resignation of one of her media advisers who admitted to triggering the Australia Day fracas outside a Canberra restaurant.
A LONG-SERVING air marshal is taking legal action against the Australian Federal Police alleging he was victimised after raising security concerns about Qantas flights.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he does not resile from comments he made on Australia Day.
Perspective can often be elusive in the tumult of the nation's political debate.
The federal police have defended the actions of the prime ministerial bodyguards.
Indigenous elders have challenged Julia Gillard to walk a mile in their shoes.
A Melbourne teenager who died while tubing in Laos has been remembered by his family.
A Prime Ministerial staffer has been linked to yesterday?s ugly protest incident Canberra, forcing his resignation and acutely embarrassing PM Julia Gillard.
Aboriginal tent embassy protesters have burnt the Australian flag at the front steps of Parliament House as tensions surrounding the controversial protest site erupted in Canberra today
Online auction website eBay has taken a listing for Prime Minister Julia Gillard's missing shoe off the site.
Indigenous elders have challenged Julia Gillard to walk a mile in their shoes - all the while holding the Prime Minister's blue suede shoe to ransom.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has challenged Prime Minster Julia Gillard to publicly declare whether she still has faith in controversial Labor MP Craig Thomson.
One of the co-founders of the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra has admitted that he had not heard comments made by opposition leader Tony Abbott until after a fiery clash between demonstrators and police that resulted in Prime Minister Julia Gillard being dragged to safety yesterday.
"A kind of Cinderella story turned on its head."
The man who started the tubing craze says local people are very sorry for the deaths, but nothing will change unless someone takes responsibility.
It is said that the blue whale lights up the sea. Now, Australian scientists have turned to sound to illuminate the hidden lives of the few remaining largest animals on earth.
BABIES born by caesarean are much more likely to be admitted to hospital with gastrointestinal disease or chest infections in their first year of life than those born naturally, a study of NSW births has found. The babies were 22 per cent to 26 per cent more likely to be hospitalised with gastrointestinal disease and about 12 per cent more likely to be admitted with bronchiolitis, a type of chest infection, the researchers, from the Kolling institute at Royal North Shore Hospital, found.
THE federal government will help Australian same-sex couples marry in countries where gay marriage is legal by issuing them with documents currently available only to heterosexuals.
The Gillard government will help Australian same-sex couples marry in other countries.
AUSTRALIA Day was marred for a 63-year-old refugee with a history of high-profile protests when officials failed to call his name at a citizenship ceremony, instead slipping his certificate into the envelope presented to his wife.
Beyond the gnomes and frozen chooks, there's a serious side, writes John Huxley.
Torrential rain that has soaked the far north coast headed south yesterday as the resulting flooding swept over roads and bridges and threatened to isolate the large inland centre of Kempsey last night.
INDIGENOUS leaders have promised more protests in the wake of a fiery clash between demonstrators and police that trapped Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in a Canberra restaurant before they were dragged to safety and bundled into waiting cars.
A hair test to screen for breast cancer is being developed by an Australian company.
Australia Day was marred for a 63-year-old refugee with a history of high-profile protests.
US musician Brian Ritchie has settled his love of Australia by taking citizenship.
THE national road toll has fallen to its lowest level since 1946, when Australia's population was one-third the size it is now and the three-point seatbelt was still more than a decade away.
Young Australian of the Year's non-profit program has been picked up by US colleges.
THE formal investigation by Fair Work Australia into the Health Services Union has made adverse findings against key union officials including the president, Michael Williamson, the national secretary, Kathy Jackson, and the former national secretary Craig Thomson, now a federal MP.
INDIGENOUS leaders have promised more protests after a fiery clash between demonstrators and police that trapped the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader in a Canberra restaurant before the pair was dragged to safety and bundled into cars.
Rodney Hogg took fans ''inside the mind of a lunatic fast bowler'' in his autobiography.
Melbourne artist Gotye has, unsurprisingly, topped Triple J's Hottest 100 list.
Australia's Catholic bishops use Australia Day statement to call for a three-month detention limit for asylum seekers.
The man who gave Sydney its name risked his career in choosing the penal settlement's site and governor. But he was lucky and wise, writes Andrew Tink in this extract from his new biography.
APPOINTED today a Companion of the Order of Australia, Justice Virginia Bell confessed three years ago, at her official farewell from the NSW bench, that promotion to the High Court had unsettled her a little: ''Which is hard to understand when you appreciate that, as a solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre, I had no difficulty in perceiving the errors of principle made by the High Court and how those errors might be corrected.''
IT'S NOT difficult to imagine whom Lord Sacks is referring to when he complains that ''the angry atheists had all the best lines''.
THEY are a rare breed, Companions of the Order of Australia. Having more than one in the family is an event even rarer.
Tax breaks to fossil fuel companies should be scrapped and the money put towards ocean protection, environmentalists have said, warning that a boom in offshore gas and oil investment will put pressure on Australia's marine environment.
IT WAS 13 years ago - almost a third of a lifetime - that Ricky Ponting emerged from a late-night drinking session in Kings Cross blinking into the daylight, one eye blackened, to admit his role in a brawl he could not even remember.
THE former foreign minister Gareth Evans will make a spirited defence of Kevin Rudd's global ambitions for Australia, accusing Mr Rudd's ''most senior government colleagues'' of failing to support his agenda.
HE HAS a wealth of sporting experience, from coaching at elite level to covering 10 Olympics - largely for this newspaper. But the work Roy Masters regards among his most significant was with the Australian Sports Commission during its early years.
There's nothing more Australian than cold beer, but it's difficult to get an Aussie to pour one.
A drop in inflation means there is nothing to stop the Reserve Bank cutting interest rates.
Queensland's Labor government will go into a March 24 election as the clear underdog.
The Opposition Leader has agreed to pose for a men's magazine photo shoot.
Liberal MP Joanna Gash will not contest her NSW south coast seat of Gilmore next election.
Scrap fossil fuel tax breaks, spend on ocean protection, ACF tells government.
The report says 'significant works' are required to make the centres operational.
Anthony Albanese thought he had some great attack lines against Tony Abbott yesterday - until he was left red-faced when the Liberals spotted they'd been substantially lifted from the 1995 movie The American President.
Former foreign minister Gareth Evans will mount a spirited defence of Kevin Rudd's global ambitions for Australia.
The Greens will make a bold bid in parliament to slow down poker machines next month.
AFTER 23 years working in the arts and the past four years at the helm of Australia's most important arts venue, Richard Evans is stepping down as Sydney Opera House chief executive officer to pursue a ''new adventure'' in the corporate sector.
MORE than 400 doctors, medical researchers and scientists have formed a powerful lobby group to pressure universities to close down alternative medicine degrees.
PARENTS should keep the box from the new school shoes to store receipts for all the school gear.
GEOFFREY Rush's trophy room, one might assume, would be a fairly impressive and comprehensive sight - and now the abundantly talented thespian must make room for one more: Australian of the Year 2012.
VICTORIAN Governor Alex Chernov, cricketer Ricky Ponting, young sailor Jessica Watson and Wotif website founder Graeme Wood are among the higher profile recipients of Australia Day honours today.
Male domination of Order of Australia honours 'unacceptable': Rights groups say.
North coast residents were preparing for a sleepless wait last night as the threat of swollen rivers, further rain and a king tide followed a day of mass evacuations.
A $2 BILLION estimate for housing 750 asylum seekers on Nauru is driven by the Immigration Department's concern at avoiding Christmas Island-style riots and legal action by the government regulator Comcare, advice reveals.
AUSTRALIA'S spies now cost more than $1 billion a year to run - and they are increasingly involved in frontline operations, according to a landmark review of the country's intelligence community.
GEOFFREY RUSH'S trophy room, one might assume, would be a fairly impressive and comprehensive sight - and now the abundantly talented thespian must make room for one more: Australian of the Year 2012.
WHEN Labor's Anna Bligh became Queensland Premier in 2007, one of the first things she did was brand her future political opponent a liar.
Australian identity? Who knows. Who cares? And does it matter that such a complex and elusive concept about nationhood be enshrined in words?
Geoffrey Rush's trophy room, one might assume, would be a fairly impressive and comprehensive sight ? and now the abundantly talented thespian must make room for one more: Australian of the Year 2012.
A senior minister in the Gillard government accused of ripping off lines from an old Hollywood movie, has conceded the quote in his National Press Club address today was a 'stuff up'.
She may be Australia's political top dog but Julia Gillard still has a little trouble keeping hold of the newest man in her life.
Bosses have been warned that many employees won't turn up to work this Friday ? and some will turn up drunk.
David Marr doesn't see the point of Twitter.
There are two good reasons why you wouldn't want to rely on the results of the PM's trial.
A new political year has begun, but the landscape is unchanged.
Chief says $1 trillion will be needed to support ailing governments - half of which would have to come from fund backers such as Australia.
Donald and Patricia Logan, who were killed with their son Calvyn when a truck swerved on to the wrong side of the highway and slammed into their car, had celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just weeks ago.
MORE single mothers joined the workforce while others increased their work hours following Howard-era welfare reforms, according to preliminary findings from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra.
THE opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, has accused the government of grossly exaggerating the cost of reopening the detention centre on Nauru, after the federal government presented him with a $2 billion bill to implement the Coalition's key border protection policy.
WHEN the crack team of investigators at the National Gallery of Victoria realised that a valuable 19th century painting had been stolen they made, what director Gerard Vaughan called, ''an immediate report''.
PUBLIC findings of the first independent review of the intelligence community in eight years are to be released today, with its authors deciding the huge legislative and funding changes wrought to agencies since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have been justified.
THE writer Christos Tsiolkas has hit out at tennis champion Margaret Court for her anti-gay views.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has hit back at the Coalition's move to abruptly end talks on border protection overnight.
A disability worker's is seeking an official pardon after he was punished for sodomy even though he was the 14-year-old sexually abused victim of a middle-aged man.
This week has turned into one of extreme weather across the Australian continent, weatherzone.com.au reports.
The wealth of Australia's richest person jumps by about $10 billion.
Qantas can expect at least three years without industrial action from its licensed engineers after Fair Work Australia endorses deal.
As yet, there has been no recognition from the Gillard government that anything is amiss.
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