‘Chaotic’: Paralysis at the heart of Kevin Rudd’s office
In the commentary pages of The Australian, John Howard’s government was criticised as ‘reactive’ but Kevin Rudd’s administration was seen as dysfunctional.
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Your choice: attachment to anachronism or confidence in future?
The Australian’s editorial was run off the front page, a rare occurrence and a sign of the masthead’s commitment to the republican cause in this country. We republish it here today for this masthead’s 60th anniversary.
Australia has a right to be a happy nation
We have had our faults, our history has its shameful and tragic dimensions, but overall there is much more to be proud of than to lament, The Australian editorialised in 1988.
Australia’s march towards mediocrity
If we are not driving down our average roads, we are walking around with our eyes on the ground. In 1975, The Australian asked why the ambitions of Australians didn’t extend beyond sport.
![Victoria River Downs Station, Northern Territory, handling of fully grown cleanskin cattle which had been captured in trap yard, 1953 [transparency]. Picture: Frank H. Johnston](https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/a7b105e21565cf3274eef2afbe79db71?width=650)
‘Pay Indigenous Australians equal wage’: 1960s op-ed
The Australian has always stood for impartial, independent thinking. In the 1960s, we published the forthright views of maverick one-armed expeditioner Jock Marshall.
Comfort or boredom? What ‘Davos man’ gets wrong about Canberra
Questacon aside, my beef with Canberra is that it’s a humourless place. It now occupies that rarefied zone, beyond satire, where parody and reality are scarcely discernible, like an old joke that cuts too close to the bone.
A brief requiem to the Chinese-Australian restaurant
When the time comes, and the last of their kind are shut down and sold off, who will remember the old Chinese-Australian restaurant?
Uhlmann ready to rejoin contest of ideas
The award-winning political editor and commentator says his time on the frontlines of the Ukraine war had drawn him back to the profession he knows best with The Australian.
What do travel influencers have against reality?
I have two serious problems with influencers. The first is they trade almost exclusively in envy and deception.
Step inside the ‘dangerous’ mind of Douglas Murray
The firebrand British intellectual’s views on Islam, the West and the poison of identity politics have made him a controversial figure to the progressive left. But he refuses to be cancelled.
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