Gillard challenged over NT senator plan
NATIONAL: Prime Minister Julia Gillard continues to be criticised for her decision to personally elevate Olympian Nova Peris to the number one spot on the Labor Northern Territory Senate ticket....
View ArticleAboriginal ALP members put hands up against Peris nomination
NATIONAL: Three long-term Aboriginal ALP members have put their hands up to contest pre-selection for a Northern Territory senate seat against Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s star candidate Nova Peris...
View ArticlePeris choice is ‘extremely positive’: Albo
NORTHERN TERRITORY: Indigenous ALP members in the Northern Territory plan to flood Labor’s national executive with Senate nominations in protest at the expected preselection of Nova Peris, but...
View ArticleNova Peris wins NT Senate pre-selection
NATIONAL: Nova Peris has officially won pre-selection to run as a Labor Senate candidate in the Northern Territory. NATIONAL: Nova Peris has officially won pre-selection to run as a Labor Senate...
View ArticleFederal election to be held September 14
NATIONAL: Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the federal election will be held on Saturday, September 14. NATIONAL: Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the federal election will be held on Saturday,...
View ArticleGillard’s new ministers to be sworn in
NATIONAL: Prime Minister Julia Gillard is wasting no time getting her new ministers straight into the job with the official swearing-in by the governor-general to be held in Canberra on Monday....
View ArticleAlcohol bans discriminatory: Newman
QUEENSLAND: Queensland Premier Campbell Newman says alcohol bans in Indigenous communities are “discriminatory” and he’ll press on with a review despite a warning from Prime Minister Julia Gillard....
View ArticleHoward thinks Rudd could try again
NATIONAL: Former prime minister John Howard says Kevin Rudd – the man who beat him in 2007 – could make a move for the Labor Party leadership before the federal election. NATIONAL: Former prime...
View ArticleLower house passes recognition bill on Sorry Day
NATIONAL: Aboriginal leader Mick Gooda hopes an Act of Recognition will pass parliament on the fifth anniversary of the apology to the Stolen Generations. NATIONAL: Aboriginal leader Mick Gooda hopes...
View ArticleLower house passes recognition bill
NATIONAL: Parliament has taken the next steps towards constitutional reform, passing the Act of Recognition on the fifth anniversary of the national apology to the Stolen Generations. NATIONAL:...
View ArticleBACKTRACKER: PM sends a shiver down the backbone
NATIONAL: The National Platform of the Australian Labor Party was last updated at the party’s National Conference in December 2011. NATIONAL: The National Platform of the Australian Labor Party was...
View ArticleThe man who stands to be minister
NATIONAL: Meet the man who stands to become the next Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. NATIONAL: Meet the man who stands to become the next Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. He’s the...
View ArticleIndigenous health not on agenda, despite funding renewal
NATIONAL: Indigenous health will not be on the agenda at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting tomorrow but the Gillard government claims it will put in $777 million in renewed funding...
View ArticleGillard unmoved by NZ gay marriage vote
NATIONAL: Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she won’t be moved from her stance against gay marriage despite New Zealand passing legislation allowing same sex couples to tie the knot. NATIONAL: Prime...
View ArticleGillard’s minders ‘deluded by Twitter’
NATIONAL: Julia Gillard’s minders are living in a “bubble world of Twitter delusion”, according to a public relations expert. NATIONAL: Julia Gillard’s minders are living in a “bubble world of Twitter...
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