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Seminal Aussie rock band Midnight Oil have announced they will be getting back together and hitting the road, both at home and abroad.

Peter Garrett says while everyone involved in the pink batts program had a role to play minimising risks, he bore ultimate responsibility.

Reports that Midnight Oil have been offered a significant amount of money to reform for the US festival circuit.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is facing yet another internal crisis with allegations that the New South Wales Labor Party are engaging in branch stacking.

A potential third tilt at the Labor leadership for axed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appears to have lost momentum, with suggestions that Mr Rudd’s plan to persuade senior government ministers to support his challenge has failed.

Federal Education Minister Peter Garrett has been banned from setting foot on the campus of any Queensland school, with the Newman Government claiming that it was taking action to prevent the state’s educational facilities from becoming “the venue for the Gonski media roadshow.”

Mr Yunupingu, the former Yothu Yindi lead singer, has died aged 56 at his home in the Northern Territory.

Queensland’s education minister says his state won’t follow the lead of NSW in signing up to Canberra’s schools reform.

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