Chris Bowen becomes minister for immigration, a key portfolio in a country where asylum seekers arriving off Australia's vast coastline by boat have become a major political issue.

BBC: Australia PM Julia Gillard announces cabinet?

Education secured its position as the major domestic political issue of the day, and policy makers found themselves engaged in major policy debates over topics ranging from curriculum content and computers in the classroom to vouchers and other new educational delivery systems.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

The biggest rift in the relationship is the dispute over the U.S. Marine Corps base on Okinawa, which has become a major domestic political issue in Japan.

WSJ: South Korea and Japan's Diverging Strategies

Fifty-five percent of election news consumers said they went to local or national online news organizations for coverage, while 27 percent got news from major commercial online services and 19 percent used specialized political, government, candidate or issue-oriented web sites.

CNN: Survey: Internet established as major news source in 2000 elections

But Clinton's political rivals have vowed to make the question of foreign campaign contributions a major issue in the president's second term.

CNN: The Plot Thickens

He owes his popularity to the fact that he properly identified the political radicalization and increasing lawlessness among Israel's Arab citizens as the major domestic issue of our times.

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