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Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a key proposal from this year's 2020 Summit has now become a reality.
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| UpdatedWarren Mundine critical as 2020 summit Indigenous group releases 49 recommendations.
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| UpdatedPM Kevin Rudd has released a summary report of the 2020 summit recommendations.
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A group of the region's top academics will today join forces to help map out the future needs of the Sunshine Coast and progress ideas put forward at the Federal Government's 2020 Summit.
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| UpdatedSome ideas of the 2020 summit will have to be delivered over two or three terms if they are not to be brought down by undue speed.
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| UpdatedA representative from far western New South Wales says there is plenty of work to do before the 2020 Summit can be deemed a success.
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| UpdatedThe former National Party leader, Tim Fischer, has rejected claims that rural issues were not given enough importance at the 2020 summit.
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| UpdatedMonarchist David Flint says the 2020 governance panel was stacked with pro-republican delegates.
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The water trading company, Waterfind, has welcomed the focus placed on regional Australia at the 2020 Summit.
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A Gold Coast-based senior law lecturer was among those involved in the weekend's 2020 Summit in Canberra.
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| UpdatedThe AIPA says 2020 summit was just a public relations stunt by PM Kevin Rudd.
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A south-west Victorian delegate to the weekend's 2020 Summit in Canberra wants local communities to keep debating the country's future needs.
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| UpdatedUniversity of New South Wales vice chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer has rejected suggestions that the 2020 summit was 'just a big Labor love-in'. Watch his interview with the Midday Report's Joe O'Brien.
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The National Union of Students (NUS) has raised concerns about a proposal to allow university students to "pay off" their HECS debt by doing volunteer work.
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| UpdatedThe Security in the Region group proposes a national strategic plan for building Asian literacy among its key ideas at the close of the 2020 summit.
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A north Queensland academic who attended the 2020 Summit in Canberra has praised the event.
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A central Queensland teenager has told the 2020 Summit the voting age should be reduced to 16.
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A representative from the Riverina, in southern New South Wales, at the weekend's 2020 Summit, says he is happy with the outcomes, despite some initial reservations it would be a talkfest only.
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One of Australia's peak business groups says the 2020 summit has helped consolidate the idea of a national economy.
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| UpdatedThe 2020 summit in Canberra has been hailed a success by health expert Fiona Stanley.
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There has been criticism of the 2020 Summit for not including representatives from some of south-east New South Wales' most prominent industry and community groups.
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Central western New South Wales residents who participated in the Prime Minister's 2020 Summit over the weekend have returned home with ideas for the future.
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Premier Mike Rann says the over-allocation of water from the Murray-Darling system needs to be addressed at a national level as a priority.
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| UpdatedKevin Rudd says ideas from his 2020 summit aren't simply an endorsement of existing Government policies.
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| UpdatedElation and disappointment from summiteers as 2020 talks wrap up.
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