Paul Keating
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Even Albanese’s friends are impatient with his lack of ambition
It will aggravate the prime minister, but this critique is coming from five angles this week.
- James Massola
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- Opinion
- Defence
Be serious, Paul Keating: We need more defence spending, so spare us the cheap shots
Australia needs a thorough debate about its deficient defence budget, not dopey insults from a former PM.
- Jennifer Parker
- Opinion
- Australian economy
It’s a banana republic moment. We need to see more from Jim Chalmers
We don’t need eloquent oration or a calm plan for the future. Australia needs a call to economic arms.
- Shane Wright
Kenneth Hayne goes from High Court judge to unlikely fitfluencer
The former judge and banking royal commissioner has hit 80 in pristine shape.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Madeleine Heffernan
Keating reveals he told Whitlam to have Kerr sacked or arrested
Former prime minister John Howard urged Liberal leader Sussan Ley to talk to Albanese about introducing four-year parliamentary terms.
- Shane Wright
Taxpayers foot $1.4m in expenses for our former PMs
The report doesn’t include pensions for the former prime ministers, or the costs of staff.
- Brittany Busch
Paul Keating says he'd have arrested John Kerr
The former prime minister said the governor-general's decision to dismiss Gough Whitlam was so bad police should've been involved.
- Analysis
- Epstein fallout
How Epstein and Andrew drew a PM’s daughter into a swamp
The latest Epstein emails show how anyone who came close to the disgraced financier can be tarnished, even if there is nothing to suggest they did anything wrong.
- David Crowe
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
- Opinion
- Gough Whitlam
‘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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