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In the commentary pages of The Australian, John Howard’s government was criticised as ‘reactive’ but Kevin Rudd’s administration was seen as dysfunctional.
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.
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.
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)
The Australian has always stood for impartial, independent thinking. In the 1960s, we published the forthright views of maverick one-armed expeditioner Jock Marshall.
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.
When the time comes, and the last of their kind are shut down and sold off, who will remember the old Chinese-Australian restaurant?
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.
I have two serious problems with influencers. The first is they trade almost exclusively in envy and deception.
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