Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Liberal Party has released a new advertisement attacking Labor's links with unions, but Labor says it is proof the Liberals are running a fear campaign.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The possibility of Pauline Hanson winning a Senate seat in Queensland has emerged as a key factor in the preference deal announced today between the Democrats and the Greens in the state.
Source: The New York Times
New York is one of more than a dozen states, led by California, preparing to sue the Bush administration for holding up efforts to regulate emissions from cars and trucks, several people involved in the lawsuit said on Tuesday.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Federal Labor environment spokesman Peter Garrett has accused the Government of denying him sensitive environment information under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Ratcheting up pressure on Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Israel prepared to cut electricity supplies to Gazans in retaliation for an escalation in cross-border rocket and mortar attacks by Palestinian militants.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Labor leader Kevin Rudd has been questioned extensively today about his views on gay marriage and gay adoption. Mr Rudd says he does not believe in gay marriage but he does want to see an end to all other discrimination against gay people.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan says Labor's proposal to reach 98 per cent of the population with a new broadband system would be impossible.
Source: Australian News Network
LABOR has challenged Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reveal what he knows about a shadowy Christian sect in his Sydney electorate of Wentworth.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Ex-Soviet Tajikistan outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organisation on Monday, saying its missionary activities violated the laws of the predominantly Muslim Central Asian state.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Channel Nine presenter Ray Martin has accused Prime Minister John Howard's office and the National Press Club of trying to stifle the media after the plug was pulled on the channel's feed during last night's election's debate.
Source: CNN
Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said legalized abortion in the United States was a holocaust.
Source: The Age
The Exclusive Brethren religious sect has denied allegations a senior member channelled $320,000 to a company which used the money to fund pro-Liberal and anti-Greens political advertising.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Prime Minister John Howard has had a run-in with ABC TV's Chaser comedy team on his morning walk in Sydney.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Federal Education Minister and the New South Wales Opposition have accused Labor and the unions of using yesterday's Higher School Certificate (HSC) exam to indoctrinate students with left-wing ideologies.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Make Poverty History campaign says Australia is failing to reach its commitments under the Millennium Development Goals. The joint chairman of the campaign, Tim Costello, says it will now take another 30 years for Australia to reach some of its targets.
Source: The Age
Just when you thought it wasn't possibly for Bush to get any dumber, he's decided to play chicken with Iran, shrieking that they need to ditch the nukular weapons or it's WWIII.
Source: newmatilda.com
Responding to criticism of the Government's IR policy from the Bishop of Parramatta and Catholic social justice groups, Tony Abbott said last week that 'a political argument is not transformed into a moral argument simply because it's delivered with an enormous dollop of sa …
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Locals in the village of Xiantang have occupied their village hall for the past 14 weeks to protest what they say is official graft.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Greens Leader Bob Brown says John Howard only wants one leaders' debate early in the campaign because he knows he will lose against Kevin Rudd.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Uniting Church in Australia has condemned the Commonwealth's legislative response to child sex abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. The church is calling for the Northern Territory Response Act, passed by the Federal Parliament in August, to be repealed.
Source: The Age
FORMER Family Court chief justice Alastair Nicholson has accused the Exclusive Brethren church of brainwashing and abusing children by denying them access to their non-Brethren parents.
Source: The Washington Post
Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005.
Source: Canada.com
In recent years, creationists have become more aggressive in their attempts to undermine science education. The movement, originating in the U.S., has gained political support in Great Britain and Canada.
Source: Google
Sweden - Sweden wants to curb the influence of religion in private confessional schools in a move to prevent the spread of fundamentalism, government officials said Monday.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Federal Opposition says Prime Minister John Howard should reveal whether the Liberal Party has any financial links to the secretive religious sect, the Exclusive Brethren.