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Tony Abbott has survived an attempt to remove him as Prime Minister, with Liberal MPs rejecting a push by rebel MPs to oust him by 61 votes to 39. The party room, which met in a special meeting on Monday at 9am, took just minutes to resolve a spill motion but the result was much closer than the 30.... |
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7.35am. Tony Abbott declined to take questions as he arrived at a church service in Canberra for the start of the federal parliamentary year. Education Minister Christopher Pyne was already at the church and did not reveal how he intended to vote on the spill motion. “The government’s fortunes are always in my prayers,” he quipped. |
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The fate of Tony Abbott's 17-month-old Coalition government will be the first order of business when Australia's Parliament resumes today, with the 102-member Liberal party room considering a do-or-die spill of the prime ministership. But as the meeting neared, Abbott was leaving little to chance,.... |
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The iconic Smith, a Hall of Famer who won two national championships and coached the Tar Heels to 11 Final Fours and 13 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles in 36 seasons. With 879 career coaching victories, Smith ranks fourth all-time behind longtime rival Mike Krzyzewski (1,003), Jim Boeheim (963) and Bob Knight (902). |
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The Prince last night touched down in Jordan, where he will meet Jordanian King Abdullah II, before travelling on to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Charles also intends to use his Middle East tour to call for an end to attempts to drive Christians out of the region. |
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The Prince last night touched down in Jordan, where he will meet Jordanian King Abdullah II, before travelling on to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Charles also intends to use his Middle East tour to call for an end to attempts to drive Christians out of the region. |
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Smith, as was long his custom, tried to deflect attention from himself in the aftermath of the record-setting win that day in 1997 and preferred to talk about his team, which had just qualified for the Sweet 16. His Tar Heels would win two more games the next week to advance to another Final Four, where they would lose in the semifinals to Arizona. |
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INDIAN LAND On any given Sunday, Derwin L. Gray will be standing with his flock at the doors of Transformation Church. As a diverse crowd of young and old, black and white pours out the doors of the Indian Land sanctuary and congregates under the floor-to-ceiling windows in the lobby, a 5-foot-10.... |
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“We’ve been waiting for the issues of race and social justice to reach a boiling point in America, and that time is finally here,” Sharpton said, and his audience clapped. “We’ve been waiting for an opportunity to lead, and now I’m in that position,” he said, and they applauded again. |
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You can sell beer, maize, cooking oil, cement, and sugar, issue common visas, and build joint railways in our common markets. However, it is rather trickier marketing ideas and arguments comfortably across borders all the time – especially in an old economy medium like a newspaper. |
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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 2, 1940. Words fall into bad company, like people, and acquire a bad name quite innocently. Take the word “propaganda” — a proper word, which began life innocently enough when Pope Urban VIII in 1623 set up a college called the College.... |
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