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Australia’s new Prime Minister and a clash of values

Last week in Australia, Julia Gillard became the first female Prime Minister in the country's history.
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Tony Abbott and the Liberals: Truthiness Down Under

With an Australian Federal election coming up later this year, the truthiness of Abbott and his party will be of ever-greater importance.
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Heath Ledger was the cat’s meow

Did I seriously just write the above headline? Heath Ledger was? He was? People die young all the time. There’s nothing new under the sun, and tragic death in one’s prime is no exception. In many ways Heath Ledger was (here’s that dreadful word again) no more special than, say, the people dying in Palestine [...]
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