Kerryn Phelps
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Upstart writers festival aiming to take Melbourne’s mantle
This week’s Melbourne Writers Festival will hope to capture the same success as the Sorrento Writers Festival held last month.
- by Stephen Brook
Latest
Kerryn Phelps’ strange wake-up call to her fellow Australians
The former Wentworth MP appeared to claim that Australian democracy was under threat from sharia in a deleted post on X.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
‘The first time we kissed, the chemistry was unmistakeable’: Kerryn Phelps’ love story
When the former MP got married at 22, she thought it would be forever. But a lasting love affair with Jackie Stricker would come her way many years later.
- by Kerryn Phelps
Stoush breaks out within NSW Liberals over vacated upper house seat
Some members of the NSW Liberal Party are furious the favoured candidate worked for high-profile GP Kerryn Phelps when she was an independent Sydney councillor.
- by Tom Rabe and Lucy Cormack
Opinion
World politics
Of human bondage: let’s do it all again this year
There are lessons to learn from 2022’s jumble of inconsistency and folly, but I’m not so sure about our chances.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
‘Not anti-vaxxers’: Dr Kerryn Phelps says she suffered COVID vaccine injury, calls for more research
The former Australian Medical Association president said she and her wife had long-term symptoms after vaccine shots.
- by Rachel Clun
The backroom player at the heart of the Zali Steggall donations affair
Damien Hodgkinson, who once harboured his own political ambitions, is now at the centre of a donations furore.
- by Harriet Alexander
Exclusive
Australia votes
‘The real reason is the environment’: Allegra Spender to run as Wentworth independent
The daughter of eastern suburbs darling-designer Carla Zampatti and former Liberal MP John Spender, Allegra Spender, seems tailor-made to capture the blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Wentworth at the next election.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Simon Holmes à Court: ‘If it works, the payoff will be enormous’
The son of Australia’s first billionaire is the face of a growing independents movement some say could herald a tectonic shift in our political landscape.
- by Brook Turner
How your pet changes your brain chemistry for the better
Pets lower the levels of cortisol, the “stress hormone”, and provide relief of depression, anxiety and social isolation. Some neurotransmitters have also been studied.
- by Professor Kerryn Phelps
Opinion
Political leadership
Barnaby Joyce may be sandbagging Nationals seats, but his gasbagging could cost Morrison government
The Deputy Prime Minister may well save some Queensland seats for the Nationals but the sting could be the loss of critical Liberal seats - and government.
- by John Hewson
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