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| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Labor carbon tax ads broke rules |
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| THE Auditor-General has found the $20 million carbon tax advertising blitz breached financial regulations. ... more | |
| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Alcoa plant needs bailout: union |
| MANUFACTURING unions are urging the federal government to fund a bailout to save Alcoa's Point Henry smelter from closure. ... more | |
| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Carr hammers GetUp! ad campaign |
| KIM Carr has warned GetUp! its scare campaign against the furniture industry threatens to spark serious job losses. ... more | |
| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Nasser backs car industry support |
| FORMER Ford CEO Jacques Nasser has backed support for the local car industry but said it should be tied to appropriate benchmarks. ... more | |
| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Rare parrot holds up marina |
| CONCERNS about the rare orange-bellied parrot threaten a $50 million marina expansion on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. ... more | |
| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Return of the nearly dead parrot: orange-belly holds up marina |
| CONCERNS about the rare orange-bellied parrot threaten a $50 million marina expansion on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. ... more | |
| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Gillard's appeal to factory floor |
| JULIA Gillard has dramatically shifted Labor's economic narrative to reconnect with blue-collar Australia. ... more | |
| Feb 9 2012 12:00am | Familiar look to Noongar protest |
| THE West Australian opposition has defended Colin Barnett's "genuine and generous" native title offer to the state's 35,000 Noongar people ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 5:28pm | Wins for Santorum reignite campaign |
| RICK Santorum scored a hat-trick in today's Republican presidential voting contests with a win in the Colorado caucuses. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 5:02pm | PM peppered on role in tent riot |
| THE Coalition is refusing to let Julia Gillard off the hook over her office's role in sparking the Aboriginal tent embassy riot. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:50pm | Aboriginal protesters trap WA premier |
| WA Premier Colin Barnett and two ministers were trapped inside a Perth restaurant as Aboriginal opponents of a native title offer banged on the windows. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:49pm | Now I'm sorry I put a figure on it: Hockey |
| JOE Hockey says he regrets saying the Coalition needed to find up to $70 billion to fund its election promises. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:37pm | Carbon tax to add to Alcoa uncertainty |
| ALCOA says a carbon tax will make life harder for the company as it reviews the future of its Victorian smelter and the jobs of up to 600 workers. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:26pm | Santorum wins Minnesota, Missouri |
| A RESURGENT Rick Santorum has easily won Minnesota's Republican caucuses, relegating front-runner Mitt Romney to a distant third-place finish. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:20pm | Dam inquiry 'crammed' as poll nears |
| LAWYERS representing four Wivenhoe Dam engineers have raise doubts about the flood inquiry's capacity to hear all the evidence. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:04pm | Judge 'misinterpreted' Molloy sex slur |
| A JUDGE who ruled that comedian Mick Molloy had defamed Nicole Cornes erred in his interpretion of the comment, a court has heard. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 3:49pm | Abbott links Alcoa jobs to carbon tax |
| JULIA Gillard has attacked Coalition claims that her carbon tax influenced Alcoa's decision to place its Victorian smelter under review. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 3:39pm | Killer grilled over missing teen |
| DETECTIVES have interviewed killer Leslie Camilleri who they say is a suspect in a 20-year-old missing Melbourne teen case. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 3:06pm | China targets Hong Kong 'birth tours' |
| AUTHORITIES in Guangdong province say parents can be fined or punished for having more than one child, even if the babies are born in Hong Kong. ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 3:01pm | Urgent action pledge on sport broadcasts |
| THE Gillard government is urgently considering whether copyright laws need to be changed to protect the broadcast rights of major sporting codes. ... more |


