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Gillard haunted by slush fund scandal

Julia Gillard has been hounded over a 17-year-old corruption scandal involving her then boyfriend.

Key: Pussy Riot sentence 'disproportionate'

Powerful US senator to hear NZ case for trade deal

Ryan galvanises US campaign - but numbers don't add up

Attack ads on rise as campaign gets dirty

Gwynne Dyer: Military's defeat is victory for Egypt

Editorial: Running mate choice could prove pivotal

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Dominic Lawson: Is there a political pay-off to the Olympics?

Record level of asylum seekers a blow to Gillard

Poll points to Johnson as Tory leader

Political headache for Putin, punk trial due

Political satire takes cue from Clinton

A new hit TV show is a retelling of the Clinton story so thinly disguised that it's basically translucent.

Chancellor hit by GDP slump

Economics kills the refinery that protesters couldn't close

New Zealand likely to drop Zimbabwe sanctions: Key

Claim naval officer 'sold' NZ secrets

Key open to Zimbabwe sanction review