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A productivity-enhancing reform agenda ought to be the focus in this year’s political campaigns.

Back to (or building) the future?

It is both ironic and appropriate that Peter Dutton has chosen to copy the New Zealand Nationals’ election slogan of “Back on track”.

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Health Minister Mark Butler said the government would always look at ways to strengthen Medicare.

Coalition haunted by its anti-Medicare history

Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has, and always will, invest in Medicare”. Well, except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.

President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with wife Rosalynn and their daughter, Amy, to the White House following his inauguration on January 20, 1977.

Jimmy Carter: A challenged presidency, a life of moral courage

He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president, the values he stood for – honesty, compassion, morality – endure.

  • Bruce Wolpe
The “democracy sausage” has become a part of Australia’s voting tradition.

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

One in three eligible voters can’t be bothered to have a say in US presidential elections. Yet voting can – and should – be a passion and pleasure.

  • Tony Wright
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Family union in a league of its own

Grandson’s finals matches provide brain training for grandparents.

Peter Dutton Muslim apology.

The deepening mystery of a Peter Dutton apology

Calls by the opposition leader to halt arrivals from Gaza have fuelled doubts over whether he ever apologised for earlier comments about Muslim immigration.

  • Patrick Begley
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Former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson has investigated the failure to deliver key documents to the National Archives.

Bureaucratic amnesia forgets freedom of information

The discovery of a cache of sensitive federal cabinet documents that had been forgotten and left lying around gathering dust for more than 40 years is possibly even too far-fetched for political satire.

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Malcolm Fraser and his bodyguards are surrounded by protestors at Monash University, August 1976

How November 11, 1975, sparked a siege that imprisoned a prime minister

After governor-general John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government, new prime minister Malcolm Fraser became the target of students activists at Monash University.

  • Tony Wright
Far from the smoking ruins of the Yes campaign, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with US President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

Australians are too modest, our nation is much greater than America

Patriotism is irksome, but that’s no reason to shy away from acknowledging our country’s achievements, and its one great flaw.

  • Gary Newman
Nyunggai Warren Mundine during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Tuesday 26 September 2023.

A ‘litany of lies’ or a document of ‘grace and generosity’? Voice debate sparks war of words

Healthy debate is constructive, but not when your agenda is aggressively espousing unnecessary division.

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