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• Labor makes health new battleground
  WAYNE Swan has indicated the Government is prepared to go to a double dissolution election on the private health insurance rebate because the money is needed for the budget bottom line.
  
  
• SA Lib leader urges to party to regroup
  SOUTH Australia's Liberal Party will meet today to discuss its future plans after a shaky start to its four-year term in opposition.
  
  
• ETS delayed until 2012
  KEVIN Rudd has delayed the Government's carbon pollution reduction scheme until the end of 2012, backing away from his biggest election promise.
  
  
• Kevin Rudd delays ETS scheme
  KEVIN Rudd delays the ETS scheme, backing away from his biggest election promise.
  
  
• Rudd 'deeply sorry' for insulation deaths
  PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says he is deeply sorry about the deaths of installers working on the Federal Government's home insulation program.
  
  
• Unions target Abbott with 'never again'
  UNIONS are targeting Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in an advertising campaign attacking the former Government's industrial relations policies.
  
  
• Health-rebate means test 'saves $2 billion'
  PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has called on the Opposition to pass legislation allowing means testing of the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate.
  
  
• Opposition blamed for carbon scheme delay
  KEVIN Rudd has blamed an Opposition backflip for the delay of the Federal Government's carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS).
  
  
• Troy Buswell to be sacked over affair
  PREMIER set to give disgraced WA Treasurer ultimatum - resign today or you'll be kicked out.
  
  
• $344m cost of housing asylum seekers
  INTERCEPTION of another boat carrying asylum seekers has set a record for the number of arrivals in one financial year