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  Tony Abbott gets to work as Australian Prime Minister

  World | September 08, 2013 16:46 IST

  Melbourne: Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott today got “down to business” with a pledge to work for all Australians, a day after disillusioned voters punished the outgoing Premier Kevin Rudd's Labor Party for its six years

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  Australian opposition leader fights sexist image

  World | August 21, 2013 19:11 IST

  Canberra, Australia: Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott is fighting perceptions that he is sexist and has old-fashioned attitudes by proposing a parental leave policy that even his allies say is too generous.Abbott's conservative coalition is