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Tongan King urged to let Govt rule

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India keen to start winding back financial stimulus

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Hizbollah rearms as Middle East tensions grow

Too soon to end Australian stimulus, says Swan

Clean dream - a U.S energy transformation

Barack Obama has a vision of a fundamental US energy makeover, moving from fossil fuels such as coal and oil to renewable sources including solar and wind.

Taxpayers face $777m bill to help fix leaky homes

Justice still a daydream eight years on

Rodney and Louise's other holiday perk

"Perk-buster" Rodney Hide whisked his girlfriend away on another tax-payer funded trip - a mid-winter tropical break in Hawaii.

<i>Paul Thomas:</i> Has our democracy become too big a burden to these tycoons?

The path to a free enterprise nirvana is being blocked by an ignorant, nervous electorate.

Corporates rarely pay for partners

Life on the other side of the Wall

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, author Oliver Fritz reflects on growing up behind the Iron Curtain.

<i>John Armstrong</i>: Hypocritical Hide owes Act an apology

<i>Fran O'Sullivan:</i> Hide's failings like those that brought Peters down