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Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   SMH: Lees isolated as Ridgeway declares his hand - Australia's only Aboriginal Federal politician, Senator Aden Ridgeway, entered the race for the deputy leadership of the Democrats yesterday, declining to declare unconditional support to the party's leader, Senator Meg Lees.   SMH: Lees rebuffed after Dems veto pamphlets - Democrats leader Senator Meg Lees got a rebuff from Queensland members on Tuesday when she was stopped from giving out written material to back her appeal for their vote in the leadership battle.   SMH: Means test health rebate, says Lees - The well-off would lose the health insurance rebate under proposals being considered by the Australian Democrats, angered by the multi-billion dollar blowout in the cost of the tax break.   SMH: New team buoys Democrats and jolts Labor - Natasha Stott Despoja's election has given the Democrats a bounce and the Opposition an embarrassing day.   SMH: Raise the dole or I'll block tax cuts - The Democrats Leader, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, announced yesterday her party would not pass any Howard Government tax cuts through the Senate without increases in unemployment benefits and Austudy and greater spending on education, health and the environment.   SMH: Redgum in box seat to ringbark Downer - Former Redgum singer John Schumann, who almost toppled the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Downer, in the last Federal election, has yet to declare his candidacy for the seat of Mayo, regarded as the Democrats' most winnable Lower House seat.   SMH: Reith and Lees talk on IR impasse - The Democrats yesterday condemned the Government's bill to deny legal protection for industry-wide strikes but held out some slight chance of a compromise.   SMH: Ridgeway to make a fresh start - Newly elected Australian Democrats deputy leader Aden Ridgeway yesterday vowed to create a fresh party agenda.   SMH: Security review unnecessary: Downer - The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Downer, has ruled out a wide-ranging inquiry into the beleaguered intelligence services, saying he has great confidence in the agencies. His comments came yesterday as the Democrats' leader, Senator Lees, called for a confidential briefing on the latest incident, in which an employee at the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) and a woman were charged with espionage offences.   SMH: Senator slams Pearson's welfare naivety - Aboriginal Senator Aden Ridgeway has launched a scathing attack on the Cape York indigenous leader Mr Noel Pearson, describing him as "naive" and his plan for renewing welfare-dependent communities as a "Trojan horse".   SMH: Stop busting trust: Democrats in push to make the bastards honest - With electoral rorts, low ministerial standards and the fall in public trust in politicians, strategies were needed to "make the bastards honest" as well as to keep them honest, Senator Meg Lees said yesterday.   SMH: Stott Despoja left to oversee new tax she voted to leave on the shelf - The irony of being elevated to acting leader of the Australian Democrats on the weekend of the introduction of the GST is not lost on Senator Natasha Stott Despoja.   SMH: Stott Despoja: I will listen - The Australian Democrats last night changed guard, dumping their leader, Senator Meg Lees, for 31-year-old Senator Natasha Stott Despoja after a bruising five-week contest.   SMH: Tampon tax outcry may spark GST break for nursing mums - The outcry over the GST on tampons may end up producing tax breaks for nursing mothers but not for menstruating women. The Federal Government yesterday rejected a new bid by the Australian Democrats to exempt tampons from the GST, but left open the possibility of GST-free breast pumps and feeding pads.   SMH: Telstra 'playing games' - Telstra was accused yesterday of using ploys to try to force its full privatisation, with the Democrats calling for a Government ban on the communications giant being allowed to take over a media company.   SMH: That's enough Mayo, thanks, says bush balladeer - Mr John Schumann, an arch enemy of the Democrats leader Senator Stott Despoja, will not repeat his run for the seat of the Foreign Minister, Mr Downer, in this year's election.   SMH: They did the Democratic thing, and picked personality - The Australian Democrats have returned to the leadership style that served them well in the past.   SMH: Vote vindicates me: Stott Despoja - The Democrats had been confirmed as the third force in Australian politics, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja said yesterday, and her defeat of Senator Meg lees for the leadership had been vindicated.   SMH: What a Stott-Despoja leadership means - The Government: Tougher times likely on the environment and industrial relations in particular. The Prime Minister, Mr Howard, told Melbourne radio yesterday it would be more difficult working with Senator Stott Despoja on issues like IR in the Senate.   SMH: Winning way - Now she's in the job she wanted, we'll see whether the new face of the Democrats has substance as well as style, writes Peter Ellingsen.     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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