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Former governor of Victoria Linda Dessau.

Former governor calls for stand against alleged ‘hate speech’ at pro-Palestine protests

Victoria’s first female governor has called for a harder line on hate speech, including prosecuting people for displaying swastikas or chanting slogans.

  • Kieran Rooney

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Diplomacy leads to friction

And sparks debate.

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Superman vs the ICEman

Protector puts a star-spangled spanner in the works.

A post from the account of Nick Adams, who uses the handle Alpha Male.

Diplomatic immunity! Trump appoints loudmouth Aussie ex-local councillor as US envoy to Malaysia

The bizarre appointment marries two key pillars of the second Trump administration – a commitment to awarding even the crudest of loyalists, and treating once serious matters like geopolitics as an utter piss-take.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
The wreckage of a double decker bus with its top blown off at Tavistock Square in London on July 7, 2005.

‘If I could have amnesia, I would’: The horror day that left 52 dead in London

Thelma Stober was on the Tube when a terrorist standing next to her detonated a bomb. Her thoughts 20 years later are with those who did not make it.

  • David Crowe
New member for Dickson, Ali France, said Anthony Albanese had backed her for years.

Albanese’s class of 2025 tightens prime minister’s grip on Labor Party

Labor’s thumping election win delivers a boost for the PM in his party room, but the political certainties of decades past look to be over.

  • Mike Foley
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Cherry Bar owner James Young (left) and Lord Mayor Nick Reece.

The high-voltage row over an AC/DC tribute

An email landed in CBD’s inbox with a sensational claim about a City of Melbourne proposal for a tribute to the legendary rockers.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Tuesday 10 June 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Albanese’s cautious approach risks a repeat of Turnbull’s wasted majority. He must find a middle path

The next three years will determine whether the prime minister can lead big national conversations that have the capacity to change the country.

  • James Massola
Australia has a long, and frequently unhappy, history of political defections.

Call that a political defection? Here are the deserters for the ages

Political defections are in the news – Jacinta Price and Dorinda Cox the most recent examples – but the recent crop pale in comparison to the grand champions of political absconding.

  • Tony Wright
Lynton Crosby speaks with John Howard at a luncheon in Washington in 2002.

‘Gotcha moments’ and ‘digital lynch mobs’: Political mastermind issues warning for democracy

He steered David Cameron and John Howard to victory, but Lynton Crosby wonders if even Winston Churchill would survive the age of online pile-ons.

  • Rob Harris

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