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Troy Bramston is a senior writer and columnist with The Australian. He has interviewed politicians, presidents and prime ministers from multiple countries along with writers, actors, directors, producers and several pop-culture icons. He is an award-winning and best-selling author or editor of 11 books, including Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny, Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader and Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics. He co-authored The Truth of the Palace Letters and The Dismissal with Paul Kelly.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 21: Queen Camilla and King Charles III visit the Australian War Memorial on October 21, 2024, in Canberra, Australia. The King's visit to Australia is his first as monarch, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa will be his first as head of the Commonwealth. (Photo by Victoria Jones - Pool/Getty Images)

Confusion still reigns over royal title

King Charles’ Australian title is inconsistent with that of all other realms yet the Australian government will not correct it

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(FILES) A handout image released by 10 Downing Street, shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during a remote press conference to update the nation on the COVID-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on April 30, 2020. Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson will face tough questioning at a public inquiry on December 6, 2023 over his government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, after a barrage of criticism from his former aides. Nearly 130,000 people died with Covid in the UK by mid-July 2021, one of the worst official per capita tolls among Western nations. (Photo by Andrew PARSONS / 10 Downing Street / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Bring France into AUKUS: Boris Johnson

The former UK prime minister recalls the creation of AUKUS and says France should join the nuclear submarine pact.

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MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

‘It’s about your record’: Tony Blair’s winning formula for re-election

Seventeen years after leaving 10 Downing Street, Sir Tony Blair’s influence on world politics is greater than ever. What advice does he have for current leaders?

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INTERVIEWReview

The film explores the most significant decade of Lee Miller's life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artistsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time by traveling to Europe to report from the frontline during WWII. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What she captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War. She changed war photography forever, but Lee Miller paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell. Picture - Kimberley French

Kate’s titanic focus: photojournalist Lee Miller

The Academy Award-winning actor talks to Troy Bramston about taking on her most challenging and important screen role, in Lee.

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EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Queen Elizabeth II walks alongside Australian Governor-General, Doctor Peter Hollingworth, in Adelaide, on the first day of the her visit to Australia as part of the Queen's Jubilee Royal visit overseas. * Dr Hollingsworth is at the centre of accusations over the handling of child sex claims against clergy in Queensland when he was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane in the 1990s. (Photo by Fiona Hanson - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

King’s letter to disgraced G-G to stay a secret

The royal family wrote letters of sympathy to Peter Hollingworth after he had resigned his vice-regal role in disgrace.

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COMMENTARYCommentary

TAUS 60th Anniversary. Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam photographed in front of Jackson Pollock's 'Blue Poles', which was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia at the cost of $1.3 million in 1973.

Note to Kerr undermines Charles’ integrity as monarch

King Charles must address his youthful error of judgment in expressing support for John Kerr’s dismissal of Gough Whitlam in November 1975.

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EXCLUSIVEPolitics

US President Joe Biden speaks about the aftermath of Hurricane Milton in St. Pete Beach, Florida, on October 13, 2024. The death toll from Milton rose to at least 16, officials in Florida said October 11, and millions were still without power as residents began the painful process of piecing their lives back together. (Photo by Bonnie CASH / AFP)

Subs deal ‘risked unity on Ukraine’

Bob Woodward’s new book reveals that Kamala Harris was sent to Paris to repair US-French relations over the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal.

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CommentaryCommentary

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 05: King Charles III greets members of the public along the Mall as preparations continue ahead of the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 05, 2023 in London, England. The King was joined by the Prince and Princess Of Wales. The Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms takes place at Westminster Abbey tomorrow. Charles acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

King Charles’ visit should stir republican hearts

Australia should not be shackled to a monarchy ruled by one family. It beggars belief that well into the 21st century, Australia is still not a republic.

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 28: King Charles III after addressing the Holyrood Chamber during a visit to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to mark its 25th anniversary on September 28, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Scottish Parliament was opened 25 years ago this week. The devolved parliament has passed 370 bills, including landmark legislation to ban smoking in enclosed public places, to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol, to legalise same-sex marriage and also set the country's income tax rates. (Photo by Andrew Milligan - Pool/Getty Images)

Confusion reigns over king’s legal title

Anthony Albanese has backtracked on advice he agreed with that King Charles’s Australian title would need new legislation to come into force.

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MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 24 AUGUST 2024. FEE MAY APPLY. Paul Keating at his office in Sydney. Photography: Nick Cubbin

‘Lost its moral mandate’: Keating on the West’s decline

Paul Keating takes us through his personal collection of art and antiquity – and explains why he believes the West has reached a point of ‘cultural exhaustion’. The former prime minister has never done an interview quite like this one.

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