Children’s laureate and Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson writes a poem in protest at planned library closures across the country.

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Gruffalo author pens protest poem

Australian PM Julia Gillard’s fragile minority government loses the support of an independent MP after a disagreement over slot machine controls.

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Gillard loses key MP’s support

Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson has been named as the new children’s laureate.

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Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson is named as the new children’s laureate, replacing Anthony Browne.

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Gruffalo author is new Children’s Laureate

The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson is named as Britain’s new Children’s Laureate at a ceremony in London.

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Gruffalo author is new Laureate

A group portrait of idealists, including Julia and Paul Child, who served in the O.S.S. during World War II.

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Julia Child’s Life as a Spy

The film Erin Brockovich, starring Julia Roberts, ended happily, with a sick housewife weeping with joy as she gets her share of a historic $333 million settlement between residents of Hinkley, California, and Pacific Gas & Electric, which poisoned…

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Erin Brockovich Returns to Battle Toxic Water

Australian PM Julia Gillard pays tribute to the tens of thousands of people whose lives have been devastated by floods, cyclones and fires.

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Australia’s PM Julia Gillard unveils a new tax to help pay for devastating floods that she says will cost $5.6bn in reconstruction.

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Australia unveils new flood tax

Letter in response to Corby Kummer’s review of “As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto.”

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Letters: A Taste of Cambridge

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard warns the floods in Queensland state will take some time to recede.

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The Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, has been touring north-eastern areas of the country, which have been inundated by the worst flooding in about fifty years.

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PM Julia Gillard praises Australians’ “resilience” as she visits some of the 200,000 people affected by flooding in Queensland.

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Australian PM tours flood areas

The correspondence of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto, soul mates and collaborators.

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Recipe for Friendship

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says as many as 48 asylum seekers may have been killed when their boat sank off Christmas Island.

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Australian shipwreck ‘killed 48′