December
East Timor bugging ‘in national interest’: Howard
The former prime minister has reflected on controversy and success at an event marking the release of cabinet documents from 2004.
January 2024
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.
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.
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".