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David Gonski breaks silence to attack Abbott government's school funding plans
Thai army calls crisis talks between deadlocked political rivals
Budget cuts: Landcare groups face bleak future around Australia
Students protest across Australia against education cuts - live
Liberal donor personally recommended Tony Abbott's daughter for scholarship
Jay Weatherill says 'parasite' insult is unacceptable and destructive
Nathan Tinkler sells stud farm business
Drop paid parental leave plan to offset blocked budget measures, Labor says
Alleged smuggler charged after officers find 16 birds' eggs in his trousers
Babies born in private hospitals more likely to have health problems
Options were limited, says teacher who failed to act on abuse allegations
Nicholas Winton, the 'British Schindler', honoured by Czechs
Father arranged marriage for daughter, 12, to avoid 'sinful life', court told
Fees deregulation: universities ask Abbott government to delay start date
Ten to cut 150 jobs and axe Wake Up as ratings and earnings sink
Funding of Tasmanian hospital remains despite budget cuts to state grants
Republican rightwing defeated in Kentucky and Georgia primaries
Tony Abbott's budget defence strategy shifts to attacking the critics
Supreme court blocks Missouri execution in night of tense legal drama
Couch potato Australia: only 19% of children get enough exercise each day
China calls US 'mincing rascal' over hacking charges
Budget dents consumer confidence as families foresee tough year ahead
Tony Abbott's daughter was given scholarship for $60,000 design degree
History wars: a brave attempt to bridge the divide on frontier settlement
Abbott winks during question from pensioner 'forced to work on sex line'

David Gonski breaks silence to attack Abbott government's school funding plans

Posted: 21 May 2014 01:27 AM PDT

Head of landmark funding review says effective funding freeze after 2017 threatens to cement educational disadvantage

Thai army calls crisis talks between deadlocked political rivals

Posted: 21 May 2014 01:10 AM PDT

Military vows to stop Thailand degenerating into 'another Ukraine or Egypt', but concerns remain about curbs on civil liberties Continue reading...

Budget cuts: Landcare groups face bleak future around Australia

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:59 AM PDT

Plan to replace Landcare with green army cannot replicate work done by skilled community groups, volunteers says

Students protest across Australia against education cuts - live

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:55 AM PDT

Thousands of students gather at locations across the country to demonstrate against proposed changes to education funding. Earlier, Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne cancel a planned visit to Victoria's Deakin University because of planned protests.

Liberal donor personally recommended Tony Abbott's daughter for scholarship

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:38 AM PDT

Les Taylor, the chairman of the Whitehouse Institute of Design who recommended Frances Abbott, has made donations of more than $20,000 to the Liberal party

Tony Abbott's daughter given scholarship for $60,000 degree

Jay Weatherill says 'parasite' insult is unacceptable and destructive

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:34 AM PDT

South Australian premier says it is up to party whether John Gazzola should be disciplined for attack on Russell Wortley

Nathan Tinkler sells stud farm business

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:25 AM PDT

Patinack Farm valued at up to $200m sold to consortium of local and overseas buyers

Drop paid parental leave plan to offset blocked budget measures, Labor says

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:24 AM PDT

The Coalition's paid parental leave scheme will cost over $5bn a year, every single year, says shadow treasurer Chris Bowen

Alleged smuggler charged after officers find 16 birds' eggs in his trousers

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:18 AM PDT

Czech man arriving from Dubai will appear in court for trying to import regulated live specimens without a permit

Babies born in private hospitals more likely to have health problems

Posted: 21 May 2014 12:04 AM PDT

Study, which looked at 700,000 low-risk births in NSW, suggests higher rates of medical intervention could be the cause

Options were limited, says teacher who failed to act on abuse allegations

Posted: 20 May 2014 11:42 PM PDT

'I deeply regret that I did not follow up ... or communicate that letter to the headmaster of the school,' teacher says

Nicholas Winton, the 'British Schindler', honoured by Czechs

Posted: 20 May 2014 11:36 PM PDT

Top award for 105-year-old who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis before the second world war Continue reading...

Father arranged marriage for daughter, 12, to avoid 'sinful life', court told

Posted: 20 May 2014 11:14 PM PDT

Man appears before Burwood local court after police charge him with procuring his child for unlawful sex with 26-year-old Lebanese 'husband'

Fees deregulation: universities ask Abbott government to delay start date

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:56 PM PDT

Confusion over when students will start to be affected by the higher course charges

Ten to cut 150 jobs and axe Wake Up as ratings and earnings sink

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:53 PM PDT

The struggling third commercial network has cancelled four news bulletins, with the popular Natarsha Belling a likely casualty

Funding of Tasmanian hospital remains despite budget cuts to state grants

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:53 PM PDT

Taxpayers still on hook for $13.6m funding decison by Tony Abbott for takeover of a small hospital in northern Tasmania

Republican rightwing defeated in Kentucky and Georgia primaries

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:45 PM PDT

Mitch McConnell beats Tea Party's Matt Bevin in Kentucky, while David Perdue heads to Georgia runoff

Tony Abbott's budget defence strategy shifts to attacking the critics

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:38 PM PDT

Labor acting like 'vandals' by criticising and blocking '$40bn' worth of budget savings measures, prime minister claims

Supreme court blocks Missouri execution in night of tense legal drama

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:26 PM PDT

Stay of execution for Russell Bucklew is granted, overturned and then reinstated in successive rulings by judges

Couch potato Australia: only 19% of children get enough exercise each day

Posted: 20 May 2014 08:59 PM PDT

Study finds participation among kids in organised sport is not enough, with children spending too much time in front of screens

China calls US 'mincing rascal' over hacking charges

Posted: 20 May 2014 08:31 PM PDT

Editorial in state press says Americans are world's biggest online spies and indicting Chinese army officers is 'shameless'

Budget dents consumer confidence as families foresee tough year ahead

Posted: 20 May 2014 08:07 PM PDT

Westpac's monthly index falls sharply to its lowest point since August 2011 and slow wage growth compounds weakness

Tony Abbott's daughter was given scholarship for $60,000 design degree

Posted: 20 May 2014 07:59 PM PDT

Exclusive: Frances Abbott was awarded a chairman's scholarship for bachelors degree at prestigious Sydney institute where a donor to her father sits as chair of board of governors

Liberal donor recommended Abbott's daughter for scholarship