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Rudd's wife weighs into leadership campaign

12:46 PM | Kevin Rudd's wife Therese Rein has urged voters to contact their local Labor MPs and senators and tell them who they want as the party's leader.

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Meet 'fighting Julia'. Is this the 'real Julia'?

12:24 PM | The normal calmness was there. The thoughtful, paced, deliberate speech. But there was something else. A steely look, a don't-mess-with-me attitude. Was this the real Julia? Who knows, but there's no doubt it's fighting Julia.

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Social revolution coming to Australian TV

11:13 AM | Your TV experience is about to get a whole lot more social, with government researchers partnering with the ABC to bring Twitter and Facebook integration to virtually any show on any channel.

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The myths of motherhood

10:51 AM | Striving for perfection does kids more harm than good, writes Benison O'Reilly.

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PM Julia Gillard calls leadership ballot

9:49 AM | Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a formal leadership ballot will now take place at 10am on Monday after Kevin Rudd resigned from his post as Foreign Minister. |

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LIVE BLOG: Rudd vs Gillard

9:28 AM | Live blog of all of today's action from some of Australia's best political commentators along with your tweets and social media posts. | An Ash Wednesday appeal to the ... | Labor colleagues 'sick' of ... | GALLERY: Kevin Rudd's political career

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Rudd set to contest Labor leadership

9:24 AM | Kevin Rudd is set to contest the Labor leadership, he has told reporters in Washington DC. ''I do not believe that Prime Minister Gillard can lead the Australian Labor Party to success at the next election,'' he said. |

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'Game on' as Breakfast crashes the morning TV party

8:55 AM | "It is Thursday, 23rd of February and it is game on." With those words, spoken by co-host Paul Henry, the Ten Network this morning launched a fourth player in the competitive breakfast TV market.

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Swan continues attack on Rudd: a man of 'great weakness'

8:35 AM | Treasurer Wayne Swan has labelled Kevin Rudd a man of "great weaknesses" and says that Labor needs to put an end to the Labor leadership question.

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Trio attack boy on his way home from school

7:36 AM | Three boys have allegedly held a boy, 16, in a headlock and punched him on the head in an attempted robbery on Sydney's north shore, police say.

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States warn on Gonksi 'sham'

6:24 AM | Getting the states and territories to agree on education funding reform could be the most difficult aspect of the federal government's response to the Gonski review.

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Mental health patients lose out under new funding plan

3:00 AM | MENTAL health patients would be seriously disadvantaged under hospital funding arrangements to be introduced in July, health authorities have warned.

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Prior operator polluted Pilliga coal seam site, says Santos

3:00 AM | The coal seam gas company Santos has admitted more than a dozen instances of pollution occurred at drilling sites in the Pilliga woodland in north-west NSW, many of them not reported to the government in an apparent breach of environmental monitoring rules.

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