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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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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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TAUS60 portraits Prime Ministers digital illustration. PICS: Nick Cubbin

View from The Lodge: Leaders on leadership

In a series of exclusive interviews with three living prime ministers, John Howard, Julia Gillard and Paul Keating discuss influence and their legacies.

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INQUIRERInquirer

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 15: Roy Hattersley attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 15, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images)

Slow and steady Starmer ‘just what doctor ordered’

There won’t be fireworks, but Labour veteran Roy Hattersley says that’s just fine for Britain.

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EXCLUSIVEInquirer

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, In office. 2018 David Owen. Picture - Supplied

Party in right place, says Labour’s former centrist

David Owen, who left Labour in the ’80s as it veered left, is full of praise for the new leader.

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CommentaryCommentary

(FILES)(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on September 29, 2020 shows Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and US President Donald Trump speaking during the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio on September 29, 2020. - It's been a race like no other: held amid the coronavirus pandemic, economic turmoil, and a national reckoning on race -- and after four turbulent years with Donald Trump as president. Campaign 2020 has also featured a language all its own. Herewith is a look at the lexicon of the battle for the White House between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, from A to Z. A -- America First. A top Trump mantra. He coined it in the 2016 campaign and still hammers away at it, in word and deed, nearly four years later. (Photos by Jim WATSON and SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Biden-Trump debate echoes Kennedy versus Nixon

Joe Biden’s task is to show he’s mentally fit while Donald Trump must show he’s not a threat to democracy.

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ExclusivePolitics

NO ONLINE USE, FEE APPLIES. Rory Stewart, 50, photographed in Crieff, Perthshire. Picture: James Glossop / The Sunday Times

The former UK minister now star podcaster

The Rest is Politics co-host Rory Stewart weighs in on the UK election, 14 years of Conservative government and his life as an MP.

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$(FILES) Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reacts as he speaks during a press conference, at the Downing Street Briefing Room, in central London, on April 22, 2024 regarding the Britain and Rwanda treaty to transfer illegal migrants to the African country. Rishi Sunak is seeking his own public mandate at next month's general election, on July 4, 2024, having been installed as Conservative leader and UK prime minister by his own colleagues in parliament. The 44-year-old former financier was tasked with stabilising the UK economy, and his own notoriously fractious party, when he succeeded Liz Truss in October 2022 after her 49-day premiership imploded. (Photo by Toby Melville / POOL / AFP)$

Time to put Sunak’s Tories out of UK’s misery

After 14 years in power, five prime ministers, chaos and scandals, voters are eager for change.

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magazineWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 15 JUNE 2024. FEE MAY APPLY.30/05/2024 Former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard sits for a portrait opposite the Palace of Westminster in London. Jamie Lorriman/TWAM mail@jamielorriman.co.ukwww.jamielorriman.co.uk07718 900288

Gillard’s pitch to young men who feel diminished

In a rare and thought-provoking interview, Julia Gillard reframes her misogyny speech, admitting feminists like herself have not brought young men along on the journey.

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CommentaryCommentary

Test; Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton with a climate background for Inquirer. Illustration by Emilia Tortorella.

Deficit of leadership crippling our nation

With big challenges and opportunities facing Australia, why are the major parties and their leaders failing to seize the moment?

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