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Call for FYROM to end negotiations on name
Australian and Canadian groups ask for a ‘no compromise’ policy and an end to FYROM’s negotiations with Greece
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Government backs down to teacher boycott
The Federal government has blinked first in the Mexican standoff with
teachers over their scheduled boycott of NAPLAN tests this week.
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DFAT unmoved by riots
Australia’s travel advisory for Greece has remained unchanged despite recent riots and protests in Athens.
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Haramanis rejects Rudd’s mining tax
Greek Australian former mining magnate Kerry Harmanis has come out
strongly opposing the government’s proposal to tax mining companies a
super tax of 40 percent.
Dialogue –
Eurotrashing Greece no suprise!
Harry Toukalas looks at the issues which concern the imbalance between some EU states and Greece as the cause of the crisis not just populist rhetoric about sloth and tax avoidance
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“I am a child of the Diaspora”
Greek PM George Papandreou took offence to the ‘cheap shots’ taken by New Democracy parliamentarians about his use of the Greek language during a parliamentary debate
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Australia will weather Greek crisis
As the 16 nations of the eurozone hold emergency meetings in response to the Greek financial crisis, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says Australia’s economy will weather the storm
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Austerity bill passes
The austerity bill which will trigger the financial rescue package for Greece was passed by the Greek Parliament yesterday.
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Stepping into the void
Mike Sweet captures the feeling on the street in Athens after the three deaths on Wednesday
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Greece a reminder of GFC: Rudd
Rudd warns that the Greek events reveal that the Global Financial Crisis is not over