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• Rudd versus Gillard leadership battle on social media

  

  Social media is all a-chatter about Kevin Rudd’s resignation and expected leadership battle with Julia Gillard.

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• Tony Abbott and other MPs react to Kevin Rudd’s resignation

  

  Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the resignation of Kevin Rudd as foreign minister confirms that the government is unworthy to continue in office.

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• Kevin Rudd quits, likely to challenge PM Julia Gillard

  

  Kevin Rudd has resigned as foreign minister and is expected to challenge Julia Gillard for the prime ministership as early as next week.

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• Australians thinking of Christchurch: PM

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard says her thoughts are with New Zealanders as they mark the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Christchurch.

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• Prince Charles and Camilla to visit Australia for jubilee

  

  Prince Charles and wife Camilla will begin a series of official international visits next month to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, with the couple’s travel schedule taking in Australia later in the year.

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• Kevin Rudd rules out leadership challenge – for now

  

  Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has ruled out a leadership challenge to Julia Gillard who maintains she has the support of the Labor caucus.

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• Don’t pit public schools against private schools: NSW govt

  The NSW government has welcomed the Gonski Review into school funding but says any changes shouldn’t be used to pit public schools against private.

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• Kevin Rudd talks dirty in leaked video

  

  A video posted on YouTube shows Kevin Rudd losing his temper in a frustrated tirade of vitriol and venom. Just dirty language or a dirty escalation of the Rudd versus Gillard leadership war?

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• Darwin bombing ‘would test today’s warships’

  

  Japan’s bombing of Darwin 70 years ago was so sudden and overwhelming that even a modern warship would have been challenged, a commander of a US Destroyer says.

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• Air Australia passengers stranded for days

  

  It will take days for the 4000 people stranded by the collapse of Brisbane-based budget carrier Air Australia to make their own way home.

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• New claims over Labor leadership challenge

  

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard is set to face new leadership questions, amid claims she handed out negative polling on Kevin Rudd before taking over the reigns.

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• Australian cities more expensive than London and New York

  

  Australian cities rank among the world’s 20 most expensive places to live. They rank ahead of London, New York, Rome, Los Angeles, Berlin or Hong Kong, the latest survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit finds.

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• Kevin Rudd sees indigenous light on the hill

  

  The man who delivered the apology to Australia’s stolen generations wants the nation to become “a new light on the hill” for the rest of the world on reconciliation between indigenous people and settlers.

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• Labor and opposition in ‘class warfare’

  

  Three Liberal frontbenchers – Joe Hockey, Julie Bishop and Greg Hunt – were thrown out for an hour during a feisty question time in which both sides accused each other of “class warfare”.

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• GetUp questioning Rinehart’s motivations

  

  Online campaigner GetUp is running a newspaper campaign in Australia highlighting concerns that mining magnate Gina Rinehart might influence mining-related media coverage after her recent acquisition of a large part of Fairfax.

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• Gen Y Australians concerned about EU crisis

  

  Generation Y is more anxious about the impact of the European debt crisis on the Australia economy than are their elders, a new survey has found.

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• Australian sun lovers avoiding sunscreen

  

  Sun lovers may be raising their risk of skin cancer by avoiding sunscreen due to unfounded fears over nanoparticles, according to a federal government study.

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• Julia Gillard treated harshly due to gender: Bandt

  

  Australian Greens MP Adam Bandt has backed Greens leader Bob Brown’s comment that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been given an especially hard time because of her gender.

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• Tony Windsor doubts Julia Gillard will be dumped

  Tony Windsor says his agreement to support Labor was signed by Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan and he would have to re-assess his position in the event of a change of leadership.

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• NSW on flood alert as 7000 isolated

  Major flood warnings have been issued for rivers across northern NSW as thousands remain isolated and Moree residents begin the “soul destroying” task of cleaning up.

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