Australian cabinet gets down to business with abortion high on agenda
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Australian premier John Howard's cabinet met for the first time since his reelection, with abortion expected to be high on the agenda although not among the laws due to be introduced this session.
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Australia&#39;s election campaign, which offers some parallels with the US presidential election, entered its final week Monday with Prime Minister John
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Australia's conservative Prime Minister John Howard, handed the most powerful mandate in a generation, got down to work on Monday with reform of telecommunications, labor and media laws high on his agenda.
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Abortion and race dominate the Supreme Court's agenda for the term that begins tomorrow,  with the Bush administration and its conservative allies urging the justices to put limits on abortion rights and affirmative action.
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The rapidly growing kangaroo population in Canberra, Australia's capital, has become such a public safety issue that scientists have devised a plan to curb the animals' numbers with a contraceptive pill.
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Australia&#39;s government launched a slew of attacks on opposition leader Kevin Rudd on Tuesday, after a poll gave him a massive lead with around two months to go to an election.
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Australia&#39;s election campaign is in its final stages, with the country&#39;s role in Iraq again a major talking point. Australian Prime Minister John Howard says he does not need to apologize for joining last
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TORONTO - Hospital funding in Ontario has sparked a three-way fight between the health minister, the province&#39;s largest union and hospital administrators.
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Plans to identify potential troublemakers in the womb are defended because state intervention 'works'.
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Australia&#39;s new ministry was sworn in by Governor-General Michael Jeffery at Government House here Tuesday. John Howard, who won his fourth term as prime minister in the federal election on Oct.
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Conservative Australian Prime Minister  John Howard, handed the most powerful mandate in almost a  generation, got down to work on Monday with reform of  telecommunications, labor and media laws high on his agenda.
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Australia&#39;s government looked set for a fourth straight term, according to a poll trend released on the eve of Saturday&#39;s election, as rival leaders made last-minute pitches over the economy and the US-led Iraq war.
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By speaking out against abortion, US President George W. Bush has widened a traditional rift between American women and the Republican Party, whose platform has always had an anti-abortion plank.
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Ministers claim issues raised in Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill are matters of conscience
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Ministers are accused of trying to impose "a new morality" by ruling against an opt-out on gay adoption.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard left his election-winning ministerial team untouched in a cabinet review as the opposition Labor Party's post-poll woes deepened with new divisions emerging over its revamped frontbench.
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Attacks by Australia's conservative  government against its resurgent opposition over links to a  corrupt state leader were turned on their head on Saturday when  a cabinet minister quit amid the growing scandal.