Kevin Rudd ... Bank deposits are safe.
Rudd guarantees all bank deposits
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced that the Government will guarantee all deposits in Australian banks, building societies and credit unions for the next three years.
Mr Rudd has announced the measures in response to the global financial crisis, making the Federal Government liable for up to $700 billion in bank deposits.
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NKorea nuclear disabling
Nth Korea welcomed its dropping from a US terrorism blacklist and said it would resume disabling nuclear plants.
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Remembering victims
Hundreds of people have gathered in Bali and Sydney to mark the sixth anniversary of the Bali bombings.
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Treasurer Wayne Swan joins Insiders just before the G20 meeting of world leaders in the United States.
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Small Business Minister Craig Emerson and Opposition Environment spokesman Greg Hunt join Lateline to discuss the week in federal politics.
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'No-one can fill the breach': The world's most successful female surfer, Layne Beachley, calls it quits after 19 years on road.
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The remains of Australia's last missing Vietnam War soldier have been flown home after a solemn ceremony.
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'Touched and surprised': France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio reacts to his Nobel Literature Prize win.
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Rioting SA prisoners hold up signs on mattresses in a protest about alleged overcrowding and violence.
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'Full of life': The families of the Melbourne couple killed in a plane crash in Nepal's Everest region say they were loving and adventurous.
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Amateur video shows the aftermath of a plane crash that killed 18 people, including two Australians, in Nepal (no audio).
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The mother of missing backpacker Britt Lapthorne has accused the Federal Government and AFP of a lack of compassion.
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Associate Professor Steven Keen specialises in the economics of Australia's spiralling household debt burden. He spoke to the 7.30 Report.
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Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama butt heads on foreign policy.
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The fastest man on water, Ken Warby, challenges someone to break his record of 511 kilometres an hour.
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The US economy dominated the audience's opening questions in the second presidential debate.
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Barack Obama and John McCain clash over plans to fight climate change and reform the tax system.
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Watch the first ad from director Baz Luhrmann's $40m campaign for Tourism Australia.
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'I thought I was at death's door': Passengers recount the Qantas mid-air ordeal.
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AM: Tokyo is playing home to a mysterious monkey that has been leading the city on a merry chase in recent months.
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News Audio: A Dutch research team says fuel made from seaborne algae is not far off. PM's Nicola Fell reports.
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News Audio: Risk analyst Satjayit Das tells Stephen Long the final hope of avoiding utter economic chaos lies with this weekend's G20 meeting.
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News Online: Former Liberal leader John Hewson and IMF official Patrick De Fontenay discuss the best way to arrest the global financial crisis.
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News Online: PM Kevin Rudd tells political editor Chris Uhlmann that because of strong regulation, there is no need to guarantee Australians' bank deposits.
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News Online: A riot at Port Augusta jail has opposition politicians and unions pointing the finger at overcrowding. Angelique Johnson reports.
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News Audio: Lyndal Curtis talks to Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith about some of the week's international events.
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News Audio: Victoria's OPI director Michael Strong tells PM's Alison Caldwell he wants the law on misconduct in public office broadened.
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News Audio: Fran Kelly talks to Prof Michael Berk link between depression and a lack of vitamin D, which we get from exposure to sunlight.
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News Audio: Don Burke tells ABC Local Radio he does not feel his role as an adviser to Gunns compromises his integrity.
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News Online: Choice spokesman Christopher Zinn tells NewsRadio that Commonwealth Bank's takeover of BankWest is bad for competition in Australia's banking sector.
Features and Analysis
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Forest devastation
Land clearing in Indonesia for palm oil is wiping out forests, particularly in the untouched region of Papua.
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'Live political issue'
Controversial historian Keith Windschuttle has criticised the way academics have depicted the plight of Aborigines.
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Nobel prize
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NKorea nuclear disabling
North Korea welcomed the US decision to drop it from a terrorism blacklist and said it would resume disabling its nuclear plants.
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Nobel judges accused of anti-US bias
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Modest jellyfish a scientific bonanza
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Financial crisis scuffs well-heeled US shoppers
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Sirin Phathanothai recounts childhood behind the Bamboo Curtain
Whether we like it or not, the Bali bombers are celebrities in Indonesia and within their island prison, they are powerful and influential figures. More
'Ovens on wheels'
Sport
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Bathurst hat-trick
Ford's Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup won their third-straight Bathurst 1000 with another dominant display at Mt Panorama.
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India dismiss Hayden, Ponting
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Thaiday triumphs as Bennett bows out
Anthony Mundine says he is on the verge of breaking into the lucrative US market after meeting with Oscar de la Hoya in Los Angeles. More
He's back
Entertainment
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Offbeat
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Woman phones home after being declared dead
An Indian woman has phoned home four months after she was declared dead, police have said.
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Relatives of victims of the 2002 Bali bombing lay a wreath at the Australian Consulate in Denpasar, Bali during a ceremony to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the blast that killed 202 people, 88 of them Australian.
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Ovens on wheels
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Leader emerges
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Offbeat
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In the case of Russian PM Vladimir Putin, it seems a tiger is the perfect birthday gift.
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Feature
Recycle the bicycle
A love of push bikes has led to some of Melbourne's most needy getting a leg up.
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In-depth analysis of the global financial crisis, including interviews with Bank of Qld chief David Liddy and Stockland boss Matthew Quinn.
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Barrie Cassidy interviews Treasurer Wayne Swan during the emergency meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington.
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