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Paul KellyEditor-At-Large

Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large on The Australian. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of the paper and he writes on Australian politics, public policy and international affairs. Paul has covered Australian governments from Gough Whitlam to Anthony Albanese. He is a regular television commentator and the author and co-author of twelve books books including The End of Certainty on the politics and economics of the 1980s. His recent books include Triumph and Demise on the Rudd-Gillard era and The March of Patriots which offers a re-interpretation of Paul Keating and John Howard in office.

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Time for a rethink

Time for a rethink

IT is more than 40 years since Donald Horne defined Australia as “a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck”. It was a branding that captured the Australian suspicion of authority and frustration at the longevity of the Menzian age.

Paul Kelly
Just a green gesture

Just a green gesture

THE federal Government has taken a necessary but dangerous step with John Howard’s embrace of a new national clean energy target by 2020 – a repudiation of his May 2007 taskforce report and its pledge of low-cost abatement.

Paul Kelly
Howard’s big letdown

Howard’s big letdown

AS the spectre of a possible election defeat looms, John Howard’s strategy of big-spending conservatism, so successful for so long, seems to be approaching the point of political and economic exhaustion.

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