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Former prime minister John Howard bowls a ball during a cricket game in Pakistan in 2005.

Pie chucker John Howard on his biggest regret

At a VIP dinner for Sydney business leaders, the former PM recounted being talked into bowling a few right-arm mediums by the Pakistani army.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook

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Cherry Bar owner James Young (left) and Lord Mayor Nick Reece.

The high-voltage row over an AC/DC tribute

An email landed in CBD’s inbox with a sensational claim about a City of Melbourne proposal for a tribute to the legendary rockers.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Tuesday 10 June 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Albanese’s cautious approach risks a repeat of Turnbull’s wasted majority. He must find a middle path

The next three years will determine whether the prime minister can lead big national conversations that have the capacity to change the country.

  • James Massola
Australia has a long, and frequently unhappy, history of political defections.

Call that a political defection? Here are the deserters for the ages

Political defections are in the news – Jacinta Price and Dorinda Cox the most recent examples – but the recent crop pale in comparison to the grand champions of political absconding.

  • Tony Wright
Lynton Crosby speaks with John Howard at a luncheon in Washington in 2002.

‘Gotcha moments’ and ‘digital lynch mobs’: Political mastermind issues warning for democracy

He steered David Cameron and John Howard to victory, but Lynton Crosby wonders if even Winston Churchill would survive the age of online pile-ons.

  • Rob Harris
Cardinal George Pell celebrates a special mass in Sydney’s St. Mary’s Cathedral in 2004.

Sky News’ favourite college opens Cardinal George Pell hall

Campion College, a small institution in western Sydney, is a safe space for conservatives.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman, Stephen Brook and Liam Mannix
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La Trobe MP Jason Wood and his Labor challenger, Jeff Springfield.

A Lib MP, a Labor opponent and an open and shut case of cross-party unity

Who reaches their middle years without losing something of great emotional value? Certainly not Liberal MP Jason Wood. His Labor opponent was able to help.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Liberal leader Sussan Ley and David Littleproud of the Nationals.

Inside the Coalition split: Ley and Littleproud’s animus laid bare

The tension between Sussan Ley and the Nationals has been building for nearly a quarter of a century. This week it boiled over.

  • Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos
Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley and her deputy, Ted O’Brien.

Sussan Ley can learn from the best, and worst, Liberal leaders

Successful political parties have a vision of what they stand for. The Liberals need that – and more.

  • George Brandis
Where to now for the Liberal Party?

After driving into ‘an electoral dead end’, where to now for the Liberal Party?

The Liberal Party abandoned the city voters it lost in 2022 for the suburban voters in 2025. Now it has lost the suburbs. Where does it go from here?

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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