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Anika Wells

Wells wanted to be a diplomat but she’ll be content saving Generation Alpha

The communications minister is at the front of the world-first social media ban for under-16s. This is why she believes in it.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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A portrait of John Laws taken on the July 10, 2008

John Laws scores our PMs out of 10

There was no more familiar voice in Australian broadcasting than John Laws. At 90, he had lost none of his characteristic alpha male belligerence.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Susan Gerbic: “I would characterise him as a classic grief vampire, because he knows damn well what he’s doing”.

Calling out the ‘grief vampires’. How John Edward and other psychic mediums ply their amoral trade

They find their way to get their hooks into people and “just milk it for money”. A sceptic exposes the world of mediums.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Andrew Lownie (left) is author of Entitled, the Rise and Fall of the House of York; Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is pictured at right. 

Appalling Andrew: Biographer says late Queen must share blame for the ‘monster she created’

The King’s brother will soon be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after a string of scandals and missteps. His unofficial biographer says the 65-year-old will yet bring more shame on the royal family.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Rosie O’Donnell: “I’m getting a tattoo of the [Sydney] Opera House sails put on my right thigh.”

Rosie O’Donnell’s fallen for Australia. And now she’s got the tattoo to prove it

The New York actor and comedian tells Fitz about her feud with Trump, her decision to move to Ireland, and why being famous is not the most interesting part of her life.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Image shows Peter FitzSimons with Tony Abbott. Photo: @Peter_Fitz on twitter

Tony Abbott on Turnbull, Keating, Costello, Morrison and the misogyny speech

“I was an extremely good opposition leader”. Tony Abbott looks back over his political career.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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Morgan Freeman told me: ‘If you don’t cast me ... I’ll hunt you down’

Bruce Beresford’s career almost ended before it began because no-one would hire him after he made The Adventures of Barry McKenzie in 1972. Luckily, it didn’t.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Daniel Jackson, 20, is the self-appointed president of Verdis.

Carry on up the Danube: President Daniel, 20, stakes claim for ‘new’ country

Most people would not want to get between Croatia and Serbia. But 20-year-old Daniel Jackson has quite a story.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Gaming and Racing Minister David Harris.

This man could cull the number of ‘misery machines’ in NSW. But he won’t

Residents lost $2.17billion to poker machines in the first quarter of 2025. This has consequences.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Kate Seselja

Whether it’s Liberal or Labor, the people in charge are beholden to the pokies industry

The first time Kate Seselja used a poker machine she won $1000. It was the last time she left a venue with cash in her hand from the addictive machines.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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