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Some mishaps on the election trail: Kevin Rudd busts in on a choir; Tony Abbott inexplicably eats an onion; Scott Morrison’s rugby tackle trouble; and, Paul Keating’s cake plan falls flat.

‘You ignorant bastards!’ Perils of the election campaign trail

Very rarely, everything goes smoothly on the election campaign trail. Often, things go very, very wrong.

  • Tony Wright

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As the fog of inflation lifts, Dutton is cast in a harsher light

For over two years, we’ve been waiting for serious Coalition policies. All we see is the adoption of ideas of an unserious man, Donald Trump. Is that it?

  • Sean Kelly
Circular Quay skyline

Circular Quay should be Sydney’s crown jewel. Instead, $170m has been spent on nothing

For all the ideas, plans, reports, artists’ impressions, concepts and competitions, nothing ever seems to get done to transform Circular Quay.

  • The Herald's View
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.

Sir Donald Bradman wrote letters late in life almost as prolifically as he’d made runs in his younger years.

Bradman letters revealed: What Don really thought about Packer, Warne, the Queen and fame

A trove of personal letters have been unearthed that reveal Sir Donald Bradman’s private views on a wide range of issues and people, from cricketers to monarchs and prime ministers.

  • Daniel Brettig
Jim Chalmers has never shown interest in taking on the political risk of major tax reform, and he’s not about to start.

Dismal data a symptom of Labor’s poor economic vision

The recent dismal news on the economy and the enormous blowout in budget deficits represents a Rubicon of sorts.

  • The Herald's View
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Let’s rethink The Lucky Country. Australia’s fortune was never dumb luck

Donald Horne’s seminal book cast Australia as a mediocre country run by second-rate people. The truth is its brand of democracy has often led the world.

  • Nick Bryant

The nation has lost its horsepower. Why? Because our leaders are too scared to act

The mid-year economic update is a dismal portrait of a mediocre nation, but both sides of politics are culpable.

  • David Crowe
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher.

ACU is an educational institution, not a church

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher’s attempt to theocratise the Australian Catholic University must fail.

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Taking questions from the flawed

Better than reviving the Gunpowder Plot.

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