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Australia’s newly minted Assistant Minister for a Future Made in Australia Tim Ayres believes opportunities such as the revitalisation of manufacturing come around rarely. Today is one of those opportunities he argues in this excerpt from his address to the National Manufacturing Summit
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Fracking ban takes effect in Queensland's Channel Country, protecting 'one of the most unique river systems in the world'
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Forty years ago today, Susan Ryan’s Sex Discrimination Act came into effect making it illegal to discriminate against workers on the basis of sex, marital status or pregnancy. This is what nation-changing Labor reforms look like.
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Gough Whitlam talking about the duumvirate ministry that he held with Lance Barnard in the documentary Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words. Also includes footage of Barnard speaking at a press conference and Sir Paul Hasluck opening Parliament in 1973. Broadcast on 10 November 2002
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On this day 50 years ago, the Medibank legislation passed in the 1974 Joint Sitting, establishing universal healthcare in Australia
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Gough Whitlam talking about the Loans Affair as well as his management of ministers in an interview with Mike Willesee, 11 November 1985
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Gough Whitlam talking about the Vietnam War and the 1966 federal election in the documentary Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words. Also includes footage of Harold Holt and Arthur Calwell at election rallies. Broadcast on 10 November 2002
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