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Nick Reece with Clover Moore

Why this Melbourne mayor’s got a big crush on Sydney

Listening to Melbourne’s recently elected Lord Mayor Nick Reece, you might think there was no Sydney-Melbourne rivalry.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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NSW Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism Yasmin Catley.

Just say ‘no’: How Sydney’s drug habits are fuelling the gangland wars

Police Minister Yasmin Catley, despite coming from the Labor Left, holds some fairly right-wing views on strip-searching, the age of criminal responsibility and drug use.

  • Peter FitzSimons
NSW Liberal President Jason Falinski emailed party powerbrokers seeking to discuss major reforms of the party.

Jason Falinski: The Libs should reconcile with the Nats. Just not yet

If the Liberal Party doesn’t develop polices for their natural constituencies in the big cities, it will be “completely lost”, according to former MP for Mackellar.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Many Herald journalists have received a Shakes caricature when they leave the newsroom. This is the self-portrait he created when he left the Herald in August 2024.

‘Don’t be sad. I’ve had a great life’: John Shakespeare on the art of living

Beloved Herald artist and illustrator John “Shakes” Shakespeare has terminal cancer. But as he tells Fitz, even as he confronts his own mortality, he has found peace.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Keller wears One Fell Swoop kimono, Zara bangles.

‘Jana Wendt was my idol, but I was truly obsessed with Barry Manilow’

Amanda Keller jokes that it’s out of character for her to park her humility. But having prospered on many media platforms, there’s little to feel humble about.

  • Peter FitzSimons

Pope Francis ‘gave his life for all’ but he failed on one crucial challenge

Father Frank Brennan says for the future of Catholicism, the next pope must allow priests to marry, and do more to elevate women in the church.

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This will be Antony Green’s last election broadcast.

Too close to call? Antony Green’s surprising verdict on his last federal election

The ABC election guru has analysed federal elections for the past 40 years. This is what he thinks.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Westpac chief economist Luci Ellis is questioning the growing US budget deficit.

Why Australia’s well placed to weather Trump’s economic self-harm

Westpac’s chief economist explains why the US president’s tariff fixation will hurt America much more than it will hurt other countries.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Blanche d’Alpuget is selling the “city retreat” she bought with Bob Hawke in 2015.

Why I turned to crime: Blanche d’Alpuget, six years after losing Bob Hawke

What is one of the finest biographers in the country doing in crime fiction? Let’s ask her.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Greg Combet

Greg Combet: Julia Gillard sounded me out on the leadership. I made the right call

Greg Combet was not born on the wrong side of the tracks. In 1960s Rooty Hill, there weren’t any tracks at all.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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