Wong’s hostility to Israel state – like Whitlam’s – betrays all Hawke held dear
Penny Wong praises Bob Hawke’s memory – but her words bury him, along with the good he did.
Alex Mcdermott
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Towering aspirations: new dawn in Sunshine State
Labor scrapped its traditional strength, development, for debt. Can David Crisafulli turn Queensland’s fortunes around?
What the hell has gone wrong with Victoria?
Victoria’s per capita public debt now stands at $28,000 per man, woman and child – 40 per cent higher than that of the other major states. But the state’s looming fiscal disaster is merely one symptom of a state in much broader disarray.
The deadly backlash of ‘sit-down money’
Let’s face it: 1973 and 1974, not 1788, better explains this long-scale traumatic hurt and human damage to Aboriginal Australia.
‘Land of newspapers’: The Australian evolution
Rupert Murdoch’s first national daily upholds a time-honoured mission even as it meets modern challenges.
Care must guide our grasp of the past, or ship of state will founder
The strength of our democracy relies on informed citizens, but a flawed draft history curriculum, if accepted, will put that at risk.
Libs need principled vision, electoral clout to win over ‘two nations’
As the centre of electoral gravity shifts for the Coalition, one thing stands out: the good old bankable blue-ribbon Liberal heartland is dead.
More pain in the economy? It’s a sentiment with a long history
Tim Gurner’s frustration has a long pedigree in Australian history. It goes back to the first generation of bosses tearing their hair out over slack, idle convicts.
Conscription polls scarred us – will voice do the same?
When ‘spontaneous violence’ looms as a real prospect, we would do well to remember that whatever the outcome of the voice we’re going to have to live with it for a long time to come.
‘Moral middle class’ teals lay siege to Liberal broad church
The latest progressive wave is not new but it is threatening to crash our party-political system.
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