Tim Fischer
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‘I was gobsmacked when he became prime minister’
Former Howard government tourism minister Fran Bailey, who forced out Scott Morrison as head of Tourism Australia, said his prime ministership was “a tragedy for our nation”.
- by Jon Faine
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Factional politics
Why the Nats aren't road kill, yet
There is a constituency that's quite fond of John Barilaro and his antics. They're the ones he's playing to - and the ones who keep him awake at night.
- by Pru Goward
Riding the rails and dreaming with Tim
A steel wheel on a steel track, Tim Fischer would lecture anyone, has one-seventh the friction of a rubber wheel on a bitumen surface. So why don't we go by rail?
- by Tony Wright
Tim Fischer's last train ride
"All the way, people stood along the track and in paddocks and on the platforms of the little towns, waving Akubras and Australian flags."
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Vale
Tim Fischer pranked me - and it changed my life
I owe the former Nationals leader a debt of gratitude.
- by Claire Kimball
Letters
Letters
Is closing the Confucius program a xenophobic reaction?
Despite finding no evidence of "actual political influence", the NSW Department of Education will remove the Confucius program from public schools.
Letters
Letters
US snaps its fingers and Australia comes running
The current problems in the Strait of Hormuz result entirely from the US's abrogation of the Iran Nuclear deal which was destroyed by President Donald Trump.
Opinion
Vale
A man prepared to stare down a gun and go to the ends of the earth to keep a promise
Tim Fischer was a bloke from another age, who believed it was worth at least trying to do the right thing.
- by Tony Wright
Fischer lauded as 'a giant, a man of courage' for his role in overhauling gun laws
Political leaders have praised Tim Fischer for his "courageous" role in overhauling the nation's gun laws, declaring people owed their lives to the late giant of Australian politics.
- by Shane Wright
Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer dies
Former Nationals leader Tim Fischer, who was deputy prime minister in John Howard's Coalition government, has died after a battle with cancer.
- by Tony Wright
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Post Tony Abbott to the Vatican, says former deputy PM Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer, Australia's first resident ambassador to the Holy See, says Abbott has exactly the right capabilities for the role.
- by Fergus Hunter
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