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The Headland Preservation Group says the structures are inappropriate for the historic parkland near the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

Not all heritage sites are a ‘must balance heritage with amenity’

The so-called “toilet block” at Middle Head Oval in Mosman is much more than that. It is an amenities building housing two change rooms, dedicated sex-specific toilet facilities, umpire rooms, clubrooms, kiosk, covered viewing area and storage underneath.

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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce fired up at Labor.

Barnaby champions his hometown mayor, condemning Labor ‘snobs’

Barnaby Joyce knows all about weaponising the country-city divide, and a question about the Mayor of Tamworth gave him a perfect opportunity.

  • Tony Wright
Life in lockdown.  A woman walks through the Bourke St Mall.

Piecemeal, politicised COVID response obscures path back to “normal”

Hopefully, the last 18 months will not provide the template for the uncertain times ahead.

  • Shaun Carney
Then Prime Minister and Treasurer, Ben Chifley, released the 1945 budget just days after the end of World War Two. Four years later, he was on hand to see the first Australian-made car roll off the Holden assembly line in Melbourne.

Scott Morrison channels Chifley for a post-war budget

Scott Morrison says next week's budget will be the most important since the end of World War II. Ben Chifley's problems of 1945 were even larger than today's.

  • Shane Wright

'Making the radical seem reasonable': what is a think tank?

There were 8248 think tanks in the world last year, including 42 in Australia. What do they do? How? And for whom?

  • Nick O'Malley
Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley sent in the troops as strike breakers, despite a US intelligence officer's claim that  there was "not one chance in 10 million" of any effective action against communism until Chifley was removed.

Reports of China spies and takeover plots are fanciful

China's clandestine influence efforts in Australia are real, but reports suggesting it wanted to install an MP in our Parliament and take over our political system are wildly exaggerated.

  • Brian Toohey
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Abbott channels Oprah, promises less toxic politics

Abbott channels Oprah, promises less toxic politics

Mr Abbott referred several times to the “decade of disappointment”, apparently forgetting his Prime Ministership fell within that decade.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Where are history's great political partnerships?

Where are history's great political partnerships?

Haughty, aloof, ambitious, selfish, suspicious: why can't our leaders work in teams?

  • Mark Thomas

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