PRIME Minister Julia Gillard was joking when she said facing a room full of students was the toughest part of her job.
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Aussie marathon team returning home
AN Australian team at the Boston Marathon is expected home within days after avoiding twin bombings that killed at least three people and injured more than 100.
Pacific Sites Named In Massive U.S. Military Construction Plan
The fiscal year 2014 budget proposal submitted by President Barack Obama includes 12 military construction projects – specific projects funded by Congress – valued at a total of…
Sales of synthetic drugs are on a high
IT was a massive haul - 40,000 packets of synthetic cannabis. But police didn't even know if they could charge the owners.
New series of anti-smoking ads to start
A new series of hard hitting anti-smoking ads are set to start on TV, radio, online and in print in a bid to cut Australia's smoking rates by…
London echoes in Muslim centre
The nation must confront deep-rooted issues troubling Muslim Australians or risk inciting a "tectonic" event such as the 2005 London bombings, warns a British Muslim scholar embedded for…
Privacy, legals keep cloud at bay
Privacy and legal issues, rather than technical challenges, are the biggest hurdles for university IT departments contemplating a move to the cloud.
Bomb scare plane returns to Sydney
Passengers on a New Zealand-Australia Qantas flight that was the subject of a bomb scare have returned to Sydney.
Pair saves woman trapped in car
Two neighbours have saved a woman whose car ploughed through backyard fences and into a pool in southwest Sydney on Sunday.
Police monitoring Hell’s Angels NT event
Police are making no apologies for closely watching this weekend's annual run by the Hell's Angels motorcycle club in Darwin.