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Parental leave is no holiday: Hockey
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has apologised for an analogy that equated maternity leave for women with men going on holidays.Mr Hockey repeated Opposition L...
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Gillard writes off deficit blowout
Treasury figures which show the federal budget was on course for a deficit before unexpected tax writedowns have been dismissed as mathematics by Prime Min...
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Reef saving efforts turn to Caribbean
University of Queensland researchers have been studying other coral systems to see how damage to the Great Barrier Reef can be averted....
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Abetz defends coalition workplace policy
Opposition workplace spokesman Eric Abetz has rejected criticism of the coalition's workplace relations policy, arguing that it is designed to favour not o...
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