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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

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Bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse hands over the election bet cash to former Labor minister John Brown.

Labor’s former ‘minister for good times’ cashes in on election bet

John Brown received a payout from bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse after predicting an increased Labor majority.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Julia Gillard: beam me up.

To boldly go ... Julia Gillard set to turn into a prime ministerial hologram

Not only has PM27 had a play written about her, which will play Melbourne (again) in June, but Julia Gillard is getting what no other prime minister living or dead has managed to achieve.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest and Caroline Kennedy attend the Time 100 Gala.

Twiggy branches out with VIP plus-one at society shindig

When Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest stepped out at the Time 100 Most Influential People Gala, it wasn’t his clean-energy credentials that drew attention.

  • Stephen Brook
Frydenberg (right), pictured with moderator Cameron Stewart, also spoke at the official Sorrento Writers Festival.

Controversy at Sorrento Writers Festival as Baillieus host their own literary salon

Controversy alert at the Sorrento Writers Festival, south of Melbourne, where a private invite-only “sunset garden talk”, hosted by Josephine and James Baillieu, was the talk of the town.

  • Stephen Brook

Why our former PMs should speak up, not shut up

Julia Gillard has been praised for maintaining a dignified silence since leaving politics. But wouldn’t we like to hear more from her?

  • Matthew Knott
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Some mishaps on the election trail: Kevin Rudd busts in on a choir; Tony Abbott inexplicably eats an onion; Scott Morrison’s rugby tackle trouble; and, Paul Keating’s cake plan falls flat.

‘You ignorant bastards!’ Perils of the election campaign trail

Very rarely, everything goes smoothly on the election campaign trail. Often, things go very, very wrong.

  • Tony Wright

Is Albo destined to be a one-term PM?

What is the legacy of the first (and perhaps only) term of the Albanese government? The loss of the Voice seems to have frozen his appetite for reform.

  • George Brandis
The cost of high speed trains.

Fixing hospitals should take priority over fast rail

Living on the Central Coast, I am all for the construction of a high-speed rail link to Sydney. Currently it takes approximately the same time (1.5 hours) to drive from Gosford to the CBD on an increasingly crowded M1 as a train service that is frustratingly slow in sections.

Andrew Wilkie

Value the independent voices in parliament

Andrew Wilkie regrets signing a deal with Julia Gillard when she didn’t follow through with gambling reform and says the independents would be well advised to stay independent.

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