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Madagascar’s Labord’s chameleon: does it have a challenger for the world’s shortest-lived creature in the Australian political leader?

What Australia’s political chameleons can learn from this Madagascan reptile

It seemed Australia had stopped the turnstile of short-term political leaders, but here we go again.

  • Andy Marks

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The Albanese government steers clear of upsetting those with assets.

There’s one fight Anthony Albanese always tries to avoid picking

Labor’s scars and its determination to become the natural party of government are having a peculiar impact.

  • Sean Kelly

‘Soon we’d be parted forever’: Blanche d’Alpuget’s last moments with Bob Hawke

On the day the former prime minister died, not even his wife believed the end was near.

  • Derek Rielly
A portrait of John Laws taken on the July 10, 2008

John Laws scores our PMs out of 10

There was no more familiar voice in Australian broadcasting than John Laws. At 90, he had lost none of his characteristic alpha male belligerence.

  • Peter FitzSimons
‘Lunch with’ writer Blanche d’Alpuget.

Blanche d’Alpuget’s relationship with Bob Hawke is probably the least interesting thing about her

Australia’s most famous mistress-turned-wife on her life as a teenage runaway, the assault that changed her, and finding gratitude.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Anthony Albanese launched Gough Whitlam The Vista of the New, by Troy Bramston.

‘He could be a bit bolder’: What Albo could learn from Whitlam

A new biography of Gough Whitlam contains some important lessons for today.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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“It annoys me that people often underrate her,” says Sue Kirby (left) of Blanche. d’Alpuget. “She’s still ‘the other woman’, who ‘stole’ Bob.”

‘She got all the blame’: The public view of Blanche d’Alpuget that makes her schoolfriend ‘so angry’

Dr Sue Kirby and author Blanche d’Alpuget met as eight-year-olds. It was partly because of Sue’s father that Blanche and former PM Bob Hawke got together.

  • Fenella Souter
US President Donald Trump sprayed ABC journalist John Lyons last week.

Think Trump was rough on John Lyons? You never met Bob Hawke on a bad day

From Keating and Hawke to Bishop and Morrison, the avoidance and intimidation tactics I saw from Australian politicians on both sides were extreme. And they were never subtle.

  • Neil Mitchell
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The right to disarm

Washington’s gone to the dogs.

Support for Labor in its heartland has been waning. Can it win the battlers back?

Labor has been bleeding rusted-on, working-class voters in traditionally safe seats for years. What’s gone wrong, and can the party turn it around?

  • Gay Alcorn

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