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Julia Gillard doesn't believe in God. Unlike Howard, Rudd and Abbott, she's distanced herself from religion altogether.

Do you care whether or not our PM believes in God? Will it lose her votes on August 21?

Panorama's Nick Toscano talks to a young aetheist, a priest-in-training and Marion Maddox, author of 'God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australia'.

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Who'll be better at managing our economy? Did your $900 handout keep Australia afloat? Is our government debt a real problem?

The election campaign is in full swing, and both sides of the political divide are talking up their economic credentials.

Nick Toscano reports.

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Gillard and Abbott are hard at it, lobbying their asylum-seeker policies as the issue heats up ahead of the federal election. Panorama breaks it down.

Does the language used by government and opposition signal a return to the hardline border protection of the Howard years?

Reporters Hayley Crane, Nick Toscano and Callum Moore.

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Julia Gillard has renamed the federal population portfolio "Sustainable Population" as she moves the government further away from Kevin Rudd's idea of a big Australia.

Panorama's Amelia Caddy, Hayley Crane and Nick Toscano.

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The Vulnerable Youth Framework was inteded to be a state action plan on how to tackle youth povery, homelessness, mental health problems and ensure all young Victorians have the same opportunities. Why has the Brumby government left funding for the Vulnerable Youth Framework out of its last two budgets?

Panorama's Nick Toscano talks to VCOSS and the State Shadow Minister for Youth Hugh Delahunty.

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What the hell just happened? In a 24-hour political whirlwind, we see Rudd step down to make way for Gillard. Panorama breaks it down.

Reporters Hayley Crane, Amelia Caddy, Nick Toscano and Callum Moore.

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In the face of a clear scientific consensus, 30 per cent of Australians think concerns over global warming are exaggerated. How did it get to this?

We get most of our understanding of science from the media, so are journalists to blame that the heat has left the issue?

Panorama's Nick Toscano and Hayley Crane talk to a journo about balance and bias in reporting climate change, and to the Greens on why the political push has cooled, and why they blocked the ETS.

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How safe are you online?

While mapping streets across 30 countries for Google Maps' "street view" this year, Google cars with cameras on top also picked up our private information from unprotected wireless-internet networks.

Is it, as Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said, "the single greatest breach in history" of privacy?

Nick Toscano and Emma Buckley Lennox report.

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The city or the suburbs? Which do you prefer?

Population density and a shortage of affordable housing in inner-city Melbourne has seen students moving further out. Are students being forced away, or do some enjoy the cheaper, quieter life of the 'burbs?

Panorama's Hayley Crane, Nick Toscano and Callum Moore with the story.

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The Federal election hasn't been called yet, but political advertising is already hitting TV screens across Australia.

As Opposition Leader in '07, Rudd called political advertising a "cancer on democracy", but now he's trying to justify a $38 million campaign to promote the super profits tax on mining. Should governments be allowed to use taxpayer dollars to save their own skin?

Panorama's Nick Toscano, Ally Bergamin and Emma Buckley Lennox.

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