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Long-time prime minister Bob Hawke once held a record for beer drinking while he was at university at Oxford.

Seventy years on, Oxford pub pays tribute to Bob Hawke’s legendary skol

Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954, he drank a yard of ale.

  • Rob Harris

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Spycatcher Turnbull Thatcher

Turnbull, Thatcher and Packer: Declassified files reveal tycoon’s brush with notorious Spycatcher case

Previously secret documents show how Australian media giant Kerry Packer was almost brought in to end a simmering legal stoush over a former spy’s revealing book.

  • Shane Wright
A new report on the cost of climate change found it will affect Australia’s credit rating

Why does our credit rating matter if the planet is too warm?

It won’t really matter how good or bad our credit is if we are going under thanks to climate change.

Climate wars have not been a feature of British politics. That’s about to change

Labour is widely expected to win next year’s election. But Rishi Sunak is not going to die wondering and is playing the carbon card.

  • George Brandis
aul O’Grady dressed as Lily Savage poses for a photo at home, in south London, 1993.

Paul O’Grady’s drag act as Lily Savage was unashamedly working class

O’Grady’s act differed from the more matronly Danny La Rue and Dame Edna

London is losing its lustre as a global financial powethouse.

Big Bang 2.0: The UK tries to stop the bleeding as London’s crown slips

London’s status as a global financial centre is under threat as the UK continues to feel pain from Brexit and the GFC.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Margaret Thatcher in 1986 and Liz Truss earlier this year.

Liz Truss’ demise ends the revival of Thatcher’s libertarian economics – for now

‘I now expect the language of free markets and libertarianism to be consigned to scrap for quite some time,’ said a lobbyist for the Adam Smith Institute.

  • Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper
Wants Italians to feel proud: Giorgia Meloni attends a rally in Rome.

How Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing coalition gained control in Italy

The ascent of Giorgia Meloni is remarkable considering her humble background in a country where family ties often trump merit.

  • Crispian Balmer and Keith Weir
Then Princess Elizabeth delivers a speech for her 21st birthday in 1947, when she bowed Princess Elizabeth vowed to go forward with “an unwavering faith, a high courage and a quiet heart”.

A working woman to the end, she endured with a quiet heart

Even as she reigned, politicians debated whether working women were a threat to society. Queen Elizabeth toiled on, a leader among women.

  • Julia Baird
Britain’s incoming prime minister, Liz Truss.

Challenges for new British PM not to be underestimated

Is Liz Truss capable of righting the listing economic ship of Great Britain?

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