19-year-old Harvard arts student Erin Halverson is in critical condition after ingesting toxic levels of smug at a Ted Talk presented by former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Massachusetts last week, police and Boston officials say. In a campus-wide… Read More ›
Education Minister Christopher Pyne today announced that he will be splitting his higher education reform proposals into 64 separate pieces of legislation in order to allow the Senate to deal with the proposed changes regularly. It follows his latest… Read More ›
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has expressed “deep surprise and disappointment” over the decision of Opposition leader Bill Shorten to support a mandatory data retention scheme the kind of which was proposed by the Gillard Labor government in 2012. In a… Read More ›
Reporters from Fairfax and News Corp have been instructed by their editorial teams to attend briefings by a magic eight ball to seek clarification about the governments proposed Medicare Co-payment. The decision comes as the government reaches its twenty second… Read More ›
The former Minister for Trade and President for Life of the parliamentary cross party musical theatre society Dr Craig Emerson has made a surprise cameo appearance in the Ryan Murphy comedy drama Glee as “the Minister for Music.” Dr Emerson… Read More ›
Rumours of bad blood between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Father of the House Philip Ruddock following Mr Ruddock’s resignation as chief government whip have been all but dispelled after the Member for Berowra sent Mr Abbott a sizeable quantity of… Read More ›
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