Search The Directory The Web for Home > Regional > Oceania > Australia > Society and Culture > Politics > Political Parties > Liberal Party > Articles New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   SMH: Backbenchers keep up fuel pressure on PM - Two Liberal backbenchers, including one with whom the Prime Minister will campaign today, yesterday challenged the Government's failure to freeze petrol excise.   SMH: Badgerys law still in the wings - With probably only three sitting weeks left before the next election, legislation promised by the Federal Government last December to ensure Badgerys Creek is preserved as a viable second airport option is yet to be introduced into Parliament.   SMH: Bank waives $2m debt of lobbyist linked to Liberals - The Commonwealth Bank wiped a debt of almost $2 million owed by a lobbyist closely connected to the Liberal Party and who received the support of Senator Bill Heffernan.   SMH: Battle of Liberal princes claims its first ego - After two months of teasing, merchant banker and republican Mr Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday he had bowed out of the race for the blue-ribbon Federal seat of Wentworth. He told the Herald he had not nominated by the 5pm deadline despite substantial Liberal Party support for him to do so.   SMH: Beazley targets Bishop over bed licence profit - The Aged Care Minister was under pressure yesterday to explain a $2 million profit from the sale of a nursing home which provided substandard care.   SMH: Between heaven and hell - A battle of wills was played out between Prime Minister John Howard, a Norwegian ship captain and 460 mostly Afghan asylum seekers.   SMH: Bickering Libs put seats at risk - Splits that could derail Federal Coalition election prospects have developed on two fronts within the Queensland Liberal Party.   SMH: Bishop under pressure as horrific home closes - Investigators took two months to discover gangrene had led to the amputation of a nursing home resident's leg, despite government claims yesterday the home was under "close scrutiny".   SMH: Blacks angry over Liberal stance on stolen generation - Government members have rejected recommendations by a Senate committee for a Federal Government apology to indigenous Australians and a reparations tribunal to compensate for past injustices.   SMH: Blacks vent 'stolen' thunder - The Prime Minister was accused of aligning himself with One Nation yesterday when he seized on an admission by an Aboriginal leader, Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, that she was not "stolen" from her parents in childhood.   SMH: Blow to Howard as Wooldridge quits 'lonely' politics - The Health Minister, Dr Wooldridge, has become the third Cabinet minister to announce he will bail out at the election, weakening the Howard Government's campaign firepower in one of Labor's key attack areas.   SMH: Blue strip means it's a new ball game - Liberals are moving in on Labor's great sporting bastion - soccer. David Humphries explains the political manoeuvring that led to a coup.   SMH: Borbidge quits politics - Queensland's Opposition Leader Rob Borbidge last night announced his resignation from politics "forthwith", faced with losing his seat of Surfers Paradise to a 19-year-old Labor challenger.   SMH: Borbidge searches for voice of legion - A week out from Queensland's State election, the Coalition has a frog in its throat ... a frog called One Nation? Greg Roberts reports.   SMH: Branch power - If the Liberals can't stop the rot of factional brawling in the Queensland party, their Federal election hopes will fall over, writes Greg Roberts.   SMH: Brough to face new evidence on rorts - The man who last week was forced to drop out of the reshuffled Howard Government ministry because of allegations of electoral rorts, Mr Mal Brough, yesterday missed Parliament to face Federal police.   SMH: Call for Fahey's scalp over IT policy - The Federal Opposition stepped up its campaign for the political death of the Finance Minister, Mr Fahey, yesterday over the Government's controversial computer privatisation policy, as the CSIRO signalled it was now likely not to privatise several aspects of its computer services.   SMH: Call to improve 'lottery' refugee system - The Refugee Council of Australia has attacked the "lottery" of the Immigration Minister, Mr Ruddock, using his powers to grant visas to migrants already officially rejected.   SMH: Canberra bullyboys lack intelligence to stem the tide - Australia's panic over the Tampa obscures smarter ways of slowing the trade in refugees, writes Hamish McDonald on Christmas Island.   SMH: Cash swag to woo bush before poll - The Federal Government will have a $235 million honeypot to woo disadvantaged rural voters in marginal seats on the eve of the Federal election campaign.     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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