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<i>John Armstrong:</i> 'Hero to zero' unlikely for Key

Bombers fail classes set up to defuse their militancy

Austerity Budget tests strength of coalition

Game on: Gillard set for a fight

With Julia Gallard's appointment as Australia's new PM, Opposition leader Tony Abbott has an ever harder road ahead to the federal election.

Tribe faces extinction at hand of refinery

Spies who came back from the dead

Obama: Twitter may replace Kremlin phone lines

Transiting uranium for 'peaceful purposes' - Smith

Nick Smith says uranium transiting through NZ ports will only be used for "peaceful purposes", despite one of its recipients being involved in making nuclear weapons.

<i>Tracey Barnett</i>: Government's miracle cure comes with a hidden cost

Dumping MMP huge setback for ethnic diversity, expert warns

<i>Cartoon</i>: New PM

Cartoonist <b>Guy Body</b> with his take on the change of Prime Minister across the Tasman.

It's been a long, hard road for Australian women

<i>Editorial</i>: Labor's axe slashes a way to victory

<i>Jim Hopkins</i>: Worrier Norman needs to be a warrior

Ahead for Gillard: choices, choices

Australia's first female Prime Minister begins work today with one item dominating her agenda, writes Greg Ansley.

We would widen bank's scope: Goff