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A productivity-enhancing reform agenda ought to be the focus in this year’s political campaigns.

Back to (or building) the future?

It is both ironic and appropriate that Peter Dutton has chosen to copy the New Zealand Nationals’ election slogan of “Back on track”.

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Health Minister Mark Butler said the government would always look at ways to strengthen Medicare.

Coalition haunted by its anti-Medicare history

Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has, and always will, invest in Medicare”. Well, except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.

President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with wife Rosalynn and their daughter, Amy, to the White House following his inauguration on January 20, 1977.

Jimmy Carter: A challenged presidency, a life of moral courage

He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president, the values he stood for – honesty, compassion, morality – endure.

  • Bruce Wolpe
The “democracy sausage” has become a part of Australia’s voting tradition.

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

One in three eligible voters can’t be bothered to have a say in US presidential elections. Yet voting can – and should – be a passion and pleasure.

  • Tony Wright
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Family union in a league of its own

Grandson’s finals matches provide brain training for grandparents.

Peter Dutton Muslim apology.

The deepening mystery of a Peter Dutton apology

Calls by the opposition leader to halt arrivals from Gaza have fuelled doubts over whether he ever apologised for earlier comments about Muslim immigration.

  • Patrick Begley
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Malcolm Fraser and his bodyguards are surrounded by protestors at Monash University, August 1976

How November 11, 1975, sparked a siege that imprisoned a prime minister

After governor-general John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government, new prime minister Malcolm Fraser became the target of students activists at Monash University.

  • Tony Wright
Far from the smoking ruins of the Yes campaign, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with US President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

Australians are too modest, our nation is much greater than America

Patriotism is irksome, but that’s no reason to shy away from acknowledging our country’s achievements, and its one great flaw.

  • Gary Newman
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

My grandfather Malcolm Fraser would have found ‘If you don’t know, vote No’ abhorrent

If Australia returns a majority No vote, we will wake up on October 15 with no plan to improve Indigenous people’s lives. My grandfather would have implored us to consider the consequences of choosing to do nothing.

  • Samantha Marshall
Malcolm Fraser showing off his catch in Arnhem Land after fishing with Yunupingu. His mind was on fish not the concerns of his Indigneous hosts.

A fishing trip with a new PM says so much about why a Voice to parliament is needed

The barramundi were of more interest than issues of crucial importance to the people of Arnhem Land.

  • Megan Davis

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