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OECD praise for Canberra's stimulus package

17 September 2009

THE Federal Government has won glowing support for its controversial economic stimulus, with the Western world's leading think tank saying the strategy will save up to 200,000 jobs... read full story

Our conservative campuses should suit young Liberals

14 September 2009

It is an article of faith among right-wing commentators that Australian universities are dominated by "radical" organisations and "left-wing" thinking. Paul Sheehan ("The loneliness of the university Liberal", September 12-13) merely reiterates this belief... read full story

Richo lobbied department for Medich rezoning

8 September 2009

THE former federal Labor minister, Graham Richardson, last month lobbied the head of the NSW Planning Department over his refusal to rezone land owned by a client involved in a bitter dispute with murdered standover man Michael McGurk... read full story

Bureaucracy in way of indigenous unemployment

2 September 2009

THE "streamlined" program at the centre of the Government's pledge to employ an extra 100,000 indigenous people in a decade has so far placed 65 people amid claims it is too bureaucratic... read full story

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