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Rudd's health reform plan boosted by poll results
7:53 AM AEDT | KEVIN RUDD'S chances of having the states accept his health reform plan have been bolstered by Mike Rann's expected narrow victory in South Australia and the prospect of a hung parliament in Tasmania.  | Costello slams Abbott parent tax | US animal health merger would ... | VIDEO: Strath steers to $2.10/kg
Budget gets stimulus windfall
6:36 AM AEDT | NEW official figures show government spending running about $5 billion below forecasts, raising the prospect it has been unable to spend stimulus money as fast as it had planned.  | It sounded like a freight ...Visit North Queensland Register | US animal standards fight ... | GALLERY: Photos from SA's Mid North ...
Rann hope for 'sweetest victory'
21 Mar 10 | LABOR won a probable third term in power in South Australia last night but felt the sting of defeat in Tasmania.  | Liberals show commitment to ...Visit Stock Journal | Labor faces fight to hold onVisit Stock Journal
Irrigators hail on-farm funds as a win-win
19 Mar 10 | THE National Irrigators’ Council has welcomed the long-awaited announcement of the first round of funding for the Commonwealth Government’s $300 million On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program.  | CommentsComments (1) | Below average rainfall crimps ... | Wong blocks out irrigator ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Abbott dare gets Rudd talking
19 Mar 10 | THE main parties were in furious preparation last night after Kevin Rudd accepted a challenge from Tony Abbott and called a leaders' debate for next Tuesday.  | Costello slams Abbott parent tax | Climate doubt begins to grow in ... | GALLERY: Photos from SA's Mid North ...
Labor faces fight to hold on
18 Mar 10 | A DEMOTION to a minority government is the best result Labor can hope for in this weekend's South Australian election, strategists from both major parties believe.  | War of words over Riverland ...Visit Stock Journal | Rann claims underdog statusVisit Stock Journal
Keep your nose out, Liberals tell Costello
18 Mar 10 | PETER COSTELLO'S attack on Tony Abbott's parental leave policy has been universally condemned by his former colleagues who suggested the former treasurer had given up his chance to lead the party and should therefore butt out.  | CommentsComments (7) | ETS not 'impact neutral' for ... | Abbott won't block rival ... | VIDEO: Ardrossan Angus sale hits ...
Clarion call for salvaging economy
18 Mar 10 | Australians face the risk of falling living standards for the next decade as the country has fallen into a reform malaise, according to one of the country's leading economic authorities, Professor Ross Garnaut.  | Coalition seen as stronger on ... | Businesses will save $700m by ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tottenham ...
Youth allowance win for rural students
17 Mar 10 | REFORMS to student income support payments are set to pass the Senate this week after the federal government and opposition finally brokered a deal that exempts rural students from tougher eligibility rules.  | CommentsComments (2) | Dalwood tops parents' concernsVisit The Land | Downpours drive back drought ...Visit The Land | GALLERY: Photos from the Tottenham ...
Costello slams Abbott parent tax
17 Mar 10 | THE former treasurer Peter Costello has savaged Tony Abbott's paid parental leave policy as a ''silly'' idea that would reduce the global competitiveness of Australian business and which contravened the Liberal philosophy of low taxes.  | Libs back Greens call for ... | PM missing in action, say ... | VIDEO: Turkey buys up Angus to ...
Climate doubt begins to grow in Labor Party
16 Mar 10 | IT SEEMS not just the Opposition is home to climate sceptics, with the chairman of a Government committee investigating ways to help farmers adapt to climate change admitting he is unsure of the science surrounding global warming.  | CommentsComments (21) | Pick an option, Brown tells Labor | Lower Balonne cleared for water ...Visit Queensland Country Life | GALLERY: Photos from the floods in NSW's ...
US animal health merger would create global giant
16 Mar 10 | SANOFI-AVENTIS S.A. and Merck & Co. announced last week that sanofi-aventis has exercised its option to combine its Merial animal health business with Merck's Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health business, creating the global leader in animal health medicines.  | CommentsComments (1) | Labor has secret tax agenda: ... | Doctors prescribe $350m rural ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tumut Family ...
Invest more in farm energy: report
16 Mar 10 | THE Government should invest more money into researching energy efficiency on farms, according to a new parliamentary report released tabled in Canberra last night.  | CommentsComments (3) | Libs back Greens call for ... | Greens join call for population ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tumut Family ...
Abbott carbon plan 'unworkable'
16 Mar 10 | TONY ABBOTT'S ''direct action'' climate strategy would reduce emissions by only half as much as the Coalition claims because it made over-optimistic assumptions about the amount of carbon that could be stored in soil, a study suggests.   | CommentsComments (7) | Libs back Greens call for ... | AWB rumour mill grinds over ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tumut Family ...
Pick an option, Brown tells Labor
16 Mar 10 | THE federal government needs to make a decision between calling a double dissolution election on an emissions trading scheme or cutting a deal with the Senate on an alternative program soon, the Greens leader, Bob Brown, says.  | CommentsComments (1) | Green group buys water for ... | Heavily armed security guards ...Visit The Land | GALLERY: Photos from the Tumut Family ...
Welcome to country 'tokenistic' for Labor
16 Mar 10 | SOUTH AFRICA sings its anthem in three languages, New Zealand in two, but the practice of government ministers acknowledging Australia's traditional landowners remains a moot point in some quarters.  | Climate snapshot reveals we're ... | Nufarm profit response raises ... | GALLERY: Photos from the floods in NSW's ...
Libs back Greens call for inquiry into 'big Australia'
16 Mar 10 | CONCERN about rapid population growth is likely to become a potential election issue after the opposition indicated it would support a Greens proposal for an inquiry into the prospect of a bigger Australia.  | CommentsComments (10) | PM missing in action, say ... | Free-trade talks turn to the ... | VIDEO: Awesome start to Tas weaner sales
Greens join call for population policy
15 Mar 10 | The Greens will take the first step towards Australia developing a national population policy, a call first made last month by Brisbane's Lord Mayor Campbell Newman.  | CommentsComments (11) | Doha derailed until 2013, says US | New party wants population debate | VIDEO: Awesome start to Tas weaner sales
It's their second anniversary, but are Queensland councils celebrating?
15 Mar 10 | Thirty-two amalgamated councils across Queensland turn two years old today. But not everybody is celebrating.  | Rural Qld faces massive road billVisit Queensland Country Life | Faulty flood stations put rural ...Visit Queensland Country Life
PM missing in action, say Senate independents
15 Mar 10 | GREENS leader Bob Brown keeps seeing Kevin Rudd on television. But, he said yesterday he had not met the Prime Minister for more than six months - despite all the legislation piling up in the Senate.   | CommentsComments (3) | Voters warm to health plan, but ... | With pressure at home, Kevin747 ... | VIDEO: Awesome start to Tas weaner sales
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Health change: yes he can

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Change? 'Oh, yes we can'

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Hundreds stranded in Rotto

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