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Tamya Plibersek is the minister in charge of looking out for women – but she’ll miss out on her own government’s paid parental leave scheme.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a re-elected Labor Government would pay job seekers thousands of dollars to move house in a bid to make Australia’s workforce more mobile.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has made a quick campaign stop in the Victorian city of Geelong.

Prime Minister says she and Kevin Rudd will not be campaigning alongside each other before election day.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd have held their first face-to-face meeting since she deposed him in June.

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has for the first time explicitly denied he is the source of damaging leaks, after not responding directly to the claims for the past week.

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner refuses to confirm or deny he is source of leaks against PM.

Residents in Melbourne’s outer north-west have called for the Victorian Environment Minister Gavin Jennings to resign or be sacked over his comments about cancer rates in the region. The residents of Tullamarine, Westmeadows and Gladstone Park are concerned about the health effects of the Tullamarine toxic waste dump, which was closed in 2008.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says it is better to wear clothes to election campaign events, distancing herself from a ‘‘silly’’ budgie smuggler stunt pulled by a Labor staffer.

The Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has announced plans for a GP super-clinic at Hume in Melbourne’s north.