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New details have come to light about US influence on Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s role in the fall of Gough Whitlam

‘She heard an extraordinary plot against the government’: The call that would haunt Winsome Nash

For 50 years, a family kept a secret about events leading up to a cataclysmic moment in Australian politics. Now they are going public.

  • Peter Rees

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Barnaby Joyce has returned to the leadership of the Nationals.

Buckle up. Sky Pilot Barnaby’s gone full circle

The country party, run for almost half a century by tough and steady old-fashioned names like Arty Fadden, Black Jack McEwen and Doug Anthony, has a tear-away named Barnaby at the driving wheel - again.

  • Tony Wright
Deputy prime minister Michael McCormack, three years in the job next month, is the longest-serving leader since the Coalition came to power in 2013

Michael McCormack’s two years and 344 days on the edge

He’s now led his party longer than Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison, Barnaby Joyce and Warren Truss, making him the longest-serving Coalition leader.

  • Rob Harris
Doug Anthony, appearing at the Iac hearing into gold taxes. July 2, 1986. (Photo by Bruce Milton Miller/Fairfax Media).

Farewell to a Nationals leader who could stare down a prime minister

Doug Anthony, who led the National Party for 13 years, is farewelled as a political giant at a state memorial in Tweed Heads.

  • Tony Wright
Column 8 Granny dinkus with mask.

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Doug Anthony at his Sunnydale property in northern NSW soon after his retirement.

The last giant: Doug Anthony dead at 90

Former Nationals leader Doug Anthony served under Menzies, alongside McMahon and Fraser, and gave his name to a comedic musical trio.

  • Shane Wright

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