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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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Treasurer Jim Chalmers during early morning television interviews at Parliament House in Canberra, Sunday, May 12, 2024. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Jim will fix it’: Labor’s new orthodoxy

The Treasurer has taken command of the government’s economic and political strategy with an election budget.

Troy Bramston

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CANBERRA, Australia, NewsWire Photos. May 13, 2024: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers during Prime Minister Anthony AlbaneseÃ¢â¬â¢s addresses to the Labor caucus at Parliament House in Canberra ahead of the 2024 Federal Budget. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Chalmers bets the nation on winning inflation challenge

Why the 2024-25 budget could be make or break for the Treasurer and the nation.

Troy Bramston

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# EMBARGOED UNTIL FRIDAY 10.30 PM AEDT # CANBERRA. May 8, 2024: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers in his office at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman

Treasurer ‘pretty confident on the right balance’

Jim Chalmers talks exclusively to Troy Bramston about his third budget to be delivered on Tuesday and the economic strategy that underpins it.

Troy Bramston

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# EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY 1030 PM AEDT # CANBERRA, May 8, 2024: Secretary to the Treasury Steven Kennedy and Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers in his office at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman

Era of Chalmers in, gospel of Paul out

Jim Chalmers’ third budget will take Australia down a new economic path from the ‘orthodoxy’ embraced by Labor and Coalition governments since the 1980s.

Troy Bramston, Geoff Chambers and Patrick Commins

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Artwork King and Queen's sympathy. The royal family, including then-prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II, rallied around Peter Hollingworth

Hounded out by ‘activists’: Queen’s backing for disgraced Hollingworth

Queen Elizabeth II penned a letter of sympathy to Peter Hollingworth after he resigned in disgrace as governor-general over his past handling of child sexual abuse as Anglican archbishop of Brisbane and lashed ‘activists’ and their ‘horrid media campaigning’.

Troy Bramston

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Ncuti Gatwa and Ruby Sunday in the new season of 'Doctor Who.' PIC: JAMES PARDON/BBC STUDIOS

New doctor for space and time breaks barriers

Ncuti Gatwa opens up about becoming the blue box time traveller and the magic of the long-running sci-fi show.

Troy Bramston

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 05: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at a news conference during the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit on March 05, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. Southeast Asian leaders are gathered for talks that run through March 6 on a wide range of topics, including clean energy cooperation and China's aggressive stance in the South China Sea. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Labor is adrift, in search of a narrative to animate its purpose

Anthony Albanese must develop a clear and compelling vision for where he wants to take the nation and why

Troy Bramston

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Richard Goodwin (left) on the White House lawn with President John F Kennedy and secretary of state Dean Rusk in 1962. Picture: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Love, death and a clash of presidential loyalties

In a new book, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin turns the spotlight on her husband, JFK speechwriter Richard Goodwin.

Troy Bramston

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 23: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison discusses the Government's plan to 'live with the virus' during a press conference at Parliament House on August 23, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. Federal parliament has resumed in Canberra, despite the ACT being in lockdown due to growing COVID-19 cases. NSW and Victoria are also currently in lockdown as health authorities work to contain the spread of the highly contagious Delta strain of the coronavirus. (Photo by Rohan Thomson/Getty Images)

Why Morrison’s honesty offers a new lesson in leadership

If a prime minister suffers from anxiety should their cabinet colleagues and the voters have a right to know?

Troy Bramston

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D/IQueen Elizabeth II with Governor General of Australia Dr Peter Hollingworth, Aust politician Prime Minister John Howard and SA politician Premier John Kerin during royal visit to South Australia 27 Feb 2002. tour british royalty

Ex-G-G’s bitter, defiant letter to queen

Peter Hollingworth wrote a lengthy letter to Queen Elizabeth II detailing his reluctant resignation as governor-general over past handling of child abuse while he was an Anglican archbishop | READ THE LETTER

Troy Bramston

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