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Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott are shaping up as replacements for Malcolm Turnbull. Tony Abbott quit the frontbench over climate change policy / Picture: Gary Ramage Tony Abbott says he'll challenge Turnbull says he's standing firm Hockey could emerge as compromise Good COP, Bad COP : I'm green and scared ACTING Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged ...

MARK COLVIN: Melbourne men's clubs have won the right to keep discriminating against women.

LOOKING more like Jodie Foster than Julia Gillard, our Deputy Prime Minister has had a major overhaul in the latest issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

Two years to the day after Labor came to power, Julia Gillard has written to the opposition outlining the consequences of its decision to block laws establishing a national industrial relations system.

Measuring schools on test results alone can cause damage, particularly for those in low-socioeconomic areas.

JULIA GILLARD has warned that a quarter of a million university students will be denied benefits from the start of next year if the Coalition prevails in a Senate stand-off today.

THE Federal Government will provide $42.8 million to extend the school chaplaincy program until December 2011.

Only the Liberals are preventing Australia from having a national industrial relations system now that NSW has confirmed it's signing on, says federal Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard.

MACKILLOP College was honoured for its contribution to education in this year's teaching awards.

PETER CAVE: The Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard says the Government is determined to publish information about schools on its My Schools website from next year.

JULIA GILLARD has acknowledged poor parenting is placing a heavy burden on schools and has promised principals she will give them more support to tackle violence, bullying and behavioural problems.

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's first visit to the subcontinent has been overshadowed by the continuing attacks against Indian students, but he's refusing to apologise for the violence.

JULIA GILLARD has told the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to start again on new workplace awards for airline staff, prompting an angry response from Qantas.

PARENTS will be hit with only "modest" childcare fee hikes after the Federal Government's overhaul of the industry, says acting prime minister Julia Gillard.

JULIA Gillard wasn't kidding when she promised to give parents the most comprehensive information they've seen on how all Australian schools compare.

Australia remains committed to ensuring the 78 asylum seekers rescued at sea in Indonesian waters will disembark in Indonesia, Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced that the Global Campus Management Group, a provider of international education in the secondary school, English language and vocational education and training sector, has entered voluntary administration.

Roy Morgan has leapt in with last weekend's face-to-face polling of 1050 respondents, showing Labor's lead has actually nudged slightly upwards: from 60.5-39.5 to 61-39. Labor's primary vote is down one point to 51 per cent, but the Coalition's is also down two to 32.5 per cent.

THE man tipped to be China's next premier, Li Keqiang, arrives in Australia tonight, marking the start of a thawing in relations between Canberra and Beijing.

Beijing is sending a top-level official to Australia this week for the first time since a series of rows sent relations plummeting between the Asian giant and one of its key suppliers of raw materials.