Rudd unveils Barrier Reef plan
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Kevin Rudd, the main rival to PM John Howard in Australia's polls, announces a plan to save the Great Barrier Reef.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd touched down in East Timor Friday for a lightning visit designed to show support for the tiny nation's government after the shooting of its president this week.
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New Australian PM reportedly plans to use armed vessel to track Japanese whalers
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Australia's prime minister announced plans Thursday to ban pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in northern areas and tighten control over their welfare benefits to fight child sex abuse among them.
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Australia will host a conference here this week to try to win international support for a campaign to save endangered seabirds from being wiped out by fishing and pollution, the government said.
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Prime Minister John Howard ditched his long-standing opposition to a greenhouse gas reduction target for Australia with a pledge Sunday to set a national pollution limit next year.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the gesture will remove a "blight on the nation's soul."
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Australia will continue to photograph  Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister  Kevin Rudd said on Sunday, despite Japan's warning of a  diplomatic protest over Australia's tough anti-whaling stance.
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Plans by Australia to enforce an extensive new offshore security zone are causing concern among its neighbors. The Maritime Identification Zone announced by Prime Minister John Howard will extend 18-hundred
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Australian opposition leader Kevin Rudd said Saturday that he would bring the nation&#39;s troops home from Iraq by the middle of next year if elected to government.
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Australia's newly-elected prime minister Kevin Rudd arrived in the East Timorese capital Dili on Friday for a lightning visit to meet leaders and his nation's troops, an AFP correspondent saw.
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Earnest, bookish, and nerdy, Labor Party chief Kevin Rudd is poised to lead Australia.
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AUSTRALIA will open specialist bomb centres in south east Asian cities and set up flying squads of federal police to foil terrorist attacks across the region under plans unveiled by Prime Minister Mr John Howard yesterday.
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Australian leader John Howard has put national security back onto the election agenda by announcing plans for a regional spy school.
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What: The Great Barrier Reef is actually a maze of about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching along Australia&#39;s east coast, from north of Brisbane to Papua New Guinea.
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Australia's prime minister calls for a new way forward on climate change as Apec talks begin in Sydney.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday announced a summit of 1,000 ordinary citizens to discuss long-term challenges facing the nation.