Brendan Nelson secured $500 million for the biggest expansion at the Australian War Memorial since it was built in 1941 — but that’s not considered his most significant achievement during seven years as director.
The planned festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock has been canned — and that’s probably for the best, writes Phil Brown.
He represents a huge swath of mining and farming land in the State Parliament, but the member for Mirani has been elevated to a leadership role of a very different kind in an island country far from home.
When Steve Smith returns to Lords next week, it will be light years away from his Test debut as a bashful recruit.
FORMER FBI chief James Comey’s book and the Mueller investigation are driving President Trump into fits of anxiety and fierce anger, writes Dennis Atkins.
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s attendance at the CHOGM summit in London comes against a backdrop of global instability and uncertainty.
THERE are few more dangerous places to stand than between a politician and an infrastructure announcement, but voters are starting to see through them, writes Steven Wardill.
BRISBANE was different in the eyes of the world, and its own eyes, after the 1982 Commonwealth Games. The same will happen with the Gold Coast, writes Sallyanne Atkinson.
AS commuters cry out for a fix on the M1, our politicians can’t work out who pay, writes Michael Wray.
IT’S hard to remember a more comprehensive destruction of politician’s previously sound and valuable brand than what’s happened to Barnaby Joyce over the past three months, writes Dennis Atkins.
IN our technologically savvy world, it’s never been easier to cheat on your partner. But it’s also never been harder to keep a secret, as one man discovered, writes Kylie Lang.
COMMONWEALTH Games? Puh-leeze. Nothing tests the body and soul greater than the Easter Family Road Trip, writes Matthew Condon.
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