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Troy Bramston has been a senior writer and columnist with The Australian since 2011. He has interviewed politicians, presidents and prime ministers from multiple countries along with writers, actors, directors, producers and many pop-culture icons. Troy is an award-winning and best-selling author or editor of 12 books, including Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New, Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny, Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics and Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader. Troy is a member of the Library Council of the State Library of NSW and the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001.

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National Affairs

PM eyes marker on longevity league

PRIME ministers strive to write their names in the history books.

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A work of power and poetry

THIS landmark speech should spur us on today to achieve practical reconciliation.

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Great oration gave rise to a feud

PAUL Keating has never forgiven Don Watson for writing a memoir of his time working as his speechwriter.

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EXCLUSIVENational Affairs

Redfern address ‘made no difference’

PAUL Keating speechwriter Don Watson says the former prime minister’s Redfern Park address has “fixed nothing” for Aborigines.

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Gillard an obstacle not an advocate

JOHN Faulkner knows that major reform to the Labor Party requires the backing of the party leader to succeed.

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Inquirer

Friction over factions

IT’S the power behind the factions that is the problem.

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Industrial Relations

Fitzgibbon attacks union power

JOEL Fitzgibbon says the only way to dilute the power of factions is to break the stranglehold unions have over the ALP.

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Get back in the ring

IF Faulkner really wants to make a difference he needs to get back into the arena.

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Inquirer

Right place, right time

BOB Carr is revelling in a role he has coveted since starting out in politics.

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EXCLUSIVEForeign Affairs

Bid to lift Asia ties, keep US engaged

FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has rejected Paul Keating’s argument that Australia has lost its foreign policy independence from the US.

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