www.abc.net.au Nine years ago, Australian chef and Thai food expert David Thompson was paid the ultimate compliment. He was invited by the Thai Government to establish a restaurant showcasing Thai food in the centre of Bangkok. But his invitation was not about teaching the Thai people how to coo...
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independents, the Nationals and at least a dozen Liberals will cross the floor or abstain at the final division. Independent Nick Xenophon is also opposed. He will be voting no to the bill. He’s commissioned some new modelling which shows the ETS could be a significant drain on the budget. ... a...
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/ Tony Abbott executed a shock victory in yesterday’s leadership ballot, and in doing so seized control of the Liberal Party on behalf of the right. The new leader faces a number of big challenges, key among them will be uniting his deeply fractured party agains...
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http://abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/ Eric Abetz was one of the seven Opposition frontbenchers and party whips who resigned en masse last night. He’ll join more than a dozen Liberal colleagues who will cross the floor against the Emissions Trading legislation which has pushed the Liberal Party into mel...
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abc.net.au This morning Australia is witnessing the death throes of Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership. As one senior Liberal said last night, 'None of us are flat-footed here right now,' meaning there's plenty of manoeuvring going on as people see the writing on the wall and move to get behind their...
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http://abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/ he Rudd government’s ETS legislation should finally pass Federal Parliament, either tonight or tomorrow, courtesy of the deal struck with the Opposition. That will mean Australia will have an emissions trading scheme starting in July 2011, the single biggest econo...
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abc.net.au Since they first teamed up in the early 1960s, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore created magic. With matchless comic timing and dry, dry wit they took audiences on flights of absurdist fancy in TV series like Beyond the Fringe and Not only but Also; the film Bedazzled, and live performances...
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www.abc.net.au The long journey of an emissions trading scheme for Australia has all come to a vote this morning in the Senate, where the government’s key economic reform will be voted down. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong spent two years developing and selling this policy.
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www.abc.net.au Julia Gillard has enjoyed a meteoric rise in politics. After entering parliament in 1998, it took her just one term to get to the front bench. Five years later and she was deputy leader of her party and within a year of that, Australia’s first female deputy prime minister. The sto...
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artists from the 50s and early 60s, including a sultry version of Nina Simone’s 'My Baby Just Cares for Me'. Jimmy Barnes has also been finding out about his personal roots of late, indeed last week he rang his mother to chat, and mentioned that he'd been asked to sing at a concert at Sydney's C...
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