Paul Keating
Keating says Australians ‘utterly at odds’ with Labor on US-China
The former prime minister leapt upon poll results showing most Australians want to avoid picking sides in any conflict between the United States and China.
- by Matthew Knott
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Political leadership
Albanese’s small-target strategy, Voice ‘disaster’ risk Labor’s future: party elder
Kim Carr has joined other Labor luminaries in warning about the party’s prospects but does not want it to follow the Greens into “woke” policies.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Foreign relations
‘Airbus Albo’ has forgotten he has his own plane
The immediate decision before Albanese was how to deal with two important heads of state asking for attention at almost the same time. Why couldn’t he satisfy both?
- by Peter Hartcher
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China relations
Australia entering biggest moment on the world stage, says top historian
Sir Niall Ferguson says Australia’s influence will be crucial in the West’s attempts to curtail China.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Media & marketing
Albo’s Spicks and Specks spot struck the right note, but won’t change the tune
You would have to have a heart of concrete to deny the PM his fun, but some voters are genuinely miffed at a time when Albanese is becoming increasingly unpopular.
- by Stephen Brook
Opinion
Discrimination
Albo’s T-------- blunder says more about our times than our PM
Insults, and our ever-changing tolerance for them, speak volumes for the incoherence of our politics.
- by Malcolm Knox
Jim Chalmers to deliver first consecutive Labor budget surpluses since Paul Keating
The federal government will use the figures to argue it is keeping inflation at bay.
- by Shane Wright
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Michele Bullock didn’t cut rates on Tuesday. Bernie Fraser is sure she should have
The Reserve Bank’s most iconic governor says businesses are going bust and the RBA is too focused on only one factor in its charter.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Julia Gillard on the vote that has reshaped parliament for 30 years
Some votes can be passed with murmurs of assent, and some with shouts of dismay. Three decades ago, a historic vote at the Labor National Conference was met with joy and dancing.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Parliament House
Be more civil, you racist: Why insults should not be banned in parliament
The teals want to raise the tone of debate, but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
‘Stupid, reckless’: Keating, Pelosi trade barbs over Taiwan
Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi says Paul Keating’s description of the self-governing island as “Chinese real estate” was a “stupid statement”.
- by Matthew Knott
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