January
PM vows full release of 2003 Iraq War cabinet documents
“Australians do deserve to know the basis upon which the decision was made to send Australia to war,” the prime minister says.
- Jacob Greber
Iraq war secrecy reignites calls for inquiry
Every year the National Archives releases cabinet documents from 20 years earlier, but it is what was not released for 2003, the year Australia committed troops to Iraq, that has sparked the most attention.
- Ronald Mizen
December 2020
Toxic politics, polarisation 'fracturing Australia': former deputy PM
The former Nationals leader John Anderson used the release of Howard government cabinet papers to hit out at growing debt and corporate "virtue signalling".
- Tom McIlroy