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Edd Aragon. Apparently, Tony Abbott has woman trouble. Despite the fact he has three daughters, a wife, two sisters and a mother who adore him, the popular perception of the new Opposition Leader is that women can't stand his blokeish, confrontational...
Tags: Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Federation of Right, Australian National University, Australia, Sydney, Abbott, Religion and abortion, Abortion, Bioethics, Abortion debate
Philippines�Fourteen Filipinos have been awarded the prestigious Australian Leadership Award (Ala) Scholarship to further their studies in 2010, the Australian embassy here said. Chosen for their leadership potential, the 14 are expected to �influence...
Tags: Australian National University, Philippines Rod Smith, Philippines, Manila, Education, Charles Darwin University, Association of Commonwealth Universities, University of the Philippines
Australia has come through the global recession in a stronger position than any other advanced economy. The investments made during the crisis will help strengthen our recovery and lay the foundations for a new era of long-term growth. The challenges...
Tags: Western Australia, Australian Astronomical Observatory, personal property, innocents report, Australia, Sydney, ASTRON, Array, Square Kilometre Array, Politics of Australia, Wajarri language, Radio telescopes, Social Issues, Politics, Australian National University, Stolen Generations, Economy of Australia, Technology Internet, Development charities, Coonabarabran New South Wales, Anglo-Australian Telescope, Investment, Observatory, Property law, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Domes, Siding Spring Observatory, allnews, Superannuation in Australia, Business Finance, Taxation in Australia
Turtle, Lake Bonney. (Dean Sewell) “I was shocked—the amount of dead trees. I realized the whole wetlands had been over-processed with re-directed water, droughts, and floods,” said Fran Ifould, a post graduate student from the Australian National University’s...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Environment, Murray River, Emissions trading, Australian National University, Drought, Murray-Darling Basin, Darling River, Individual and political action on climate change, Rivers of New South Wales, Murrumbidgee River, Garnaut Climate Change Review, Water security, Climate change in Australia, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
He's quick with the jokes, a whiz at impersonations and the rebel filmmaker on the 6021-kilometre trek. It was Mr Wolahan, a senior constable with Victoria Police, who recently joked at a community forum that sharing a confined space for 30 days with...
Tags: Australian National University, climate change, Safe Climate Australia, Australia, Melbourne, Barmah Victoria, Cooktown Queensland, Far North Queensland, Black Saturday bushfires, Environment
Human rights are as vital to beating poverty as is economic advancement, says the leader of Amnesty...Irene Khan, slight of figure although a giant as head of the world's biggest human rights organisation, takes the uncomfortable rear seat and hands out...
Tags: Irene Khan, Utopia, Kate Gilmore, Australian National University, Amnesty International, Kunoth-Monks, Australia, Canberra, Jedda, Khan Noonien Singh, Khan, Social Issues
The supercomputer will be operated by National Computational Infrastructure and director Lindsay Botten says the computer brings Australia's capability into line with the top systems around the world. "This next generation research supercomputer will...
Tags: Australia, Canberra, Science and technology in the United States, Environment, Australian National University, Air dispersion modeling, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Technology Internet, Concurrent computing, Distributed computing architecture, FLOPS, Petabyte, Parallel computing, Supercomputers, Cluster computing
The Opposition says it will oppose the bill in the Senate because it believes the changes penalise gap-year students and do not provide enough assistance for rural and regional families...University vice-chancellors and student union groups have urged...
Tags: Youth Allowance, Senate, Australia, Sydney, Julia Gillard, Politics, Financial aid, Academia, Scholarship, Education, Australian National University, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Ian Chubb
The Prime Minister is an impatient man and, unsurprisingly, the states are finding it hard to live up to his Government's expectations and demands. A week ago, the states were given a gee up by Terry Moran, secretary of Kevin Rudd's Department of Prime...
Tags: Victoria, Mr Rudd, Rudd Labour, Kevin Rudd, COAG Reform Council, Steve Bracks, Australian National University, Commonwealth, Anna Bligh, Michelle Grattan, Australia, Adelaide, Politics of Australia, Council of Australian Governments, Australian Labor Party, Rudd Government, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Fijian-born Australian academic Brij Lal has been ordered out of the Pacific nation just hours after speaking to the ABC about the current diplomatic stoush between the two countries. Professor Lal's expulsion is the latest in a series by Fiji's military...
Tags: Fiji Times, Australian National University, Brij Lal, Radio Australia, South Pacific, leaves fiji, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, professor lal, professor brij, NZPA