Julia Gillard News

Holidays may be little more than an excuse to don fairy wings, or they may be sacred times spent fasting or feasting.

A British search team has found the last resting place of an allied hospital ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during the Second World War.

MARK COLVIN: The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has invoked the ghost of Christmas past in an attack on the Federal Government over industrial relations.

AUSTRALIAN children are slipping behind other countries in education, with indigenous and poorer children lagging the most.

BERWICK Primary School leaders are racing against the clock to get Federal Government funding for a much-needed gym extension.

ONE in four children is starting school with inadequate basic social, emotional or language skills.

The Australian government plans to reintroduce its emission trading scheme to the parliament for a third time in February after a hostile Senate voted down the legislation on Wednesday.

An interim report into laws governing international education in Australia has urged tougher rules for organizations wanting to register as providers.

CANBERRA: Australia's Parliament rejected laws to set up a carbon trading scheme on Wednesday, scuttling a key climate change policy of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and providing a potential trigger for an early 2010 election.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's finger remains on the trigger for a snap election despite renewed assurances yesterday by his deputy, Julia Gillard, that the Australian Government has no plans to use the climate war as an excuse for an early poll.

The Rudd Government plans to bring its twice-rejected ETS back to Parliament early next year despite new Liberal leader Tony Abbott scrapping emissions trading as coalition policy.

Abbott explains his 'stuff-ups' Newly elected Liberal leader Tony Abbott answers questions about his past.

Australia 's opposition party has splintered over a contentious bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions , with top officials resigning due to the party leader's support for the legislation.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will host a delegation of senior Israeli politicians in Australia this week, including Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom.

Australia on Sunday fanned talk of a snap election over climate change, effectively setting a Monday deadline for lawmakers to approve its scheme to cut carbon emissions or risk the wrath of voters.

Tweet tweet ... Julia Gillard has blasted Joe Hockey over his use of Twitter. Photo: Peter Braig and Wolter Peeters Joe Hockey cannot pretend he is a rational man if a bunch of "tweets" convinces him to change his mind on emissions trading, Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

VOTERS could go to the polls early next year after the Federal Government's plan to cut greenhouse gases was foiled in the Senate.

Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott are shaping up as replacements for Malcolm Turnbull. Tony Abbott quit the frontbench over climate change policy / Picture: Gary Ramage Tony Abbott says he'll challenge Turnbull says he's standing firm Hockey could emerge as compromise Good COP, Bad COP : I'm green and scared ACTING Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged ...

MARK COLVIN: Melbourne men's clubs have won the right to keep discriminating against women.

LOOKING more like Jodie Foster than Julia Gillard, our Deputy Prime Minister has had a major overhaul in the latest issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.