Staying the course in Iraq was seen as showing commitment to the US alliance, with the potential for the country to become a ‘model’ for the region, former defence minister Robert Hill wrote to John Howard.
A suicide bomber drove a delivery van loaded with a bomb to outside the Australian embassy, where it exploded, injuring 150 people and killing almost a dozen people.
Politicians’ generous super entitlements became a battleground issue in 2004, as Labor leader Mark Latham revitalised the opposition and rivalled Bob Hawke for popularity in opinion polls.
Peter Costello reveals Treasury opposed the creation of the Future Fund, which is now worth $230bn.
The Howard government weighed a detailed plan to open the Top End to economic development after cancelling an experiment with Indigenous self-government.
John Howard and Peter Costello have delivered a twin blast, slamming the Albanese government’s financial management while lashing Treasury as an institution in decline.
Corporate Australia is urging Anthony Albanese to urgently overhaul research and development incentives so local businesses can stay competitive as the incoming Trump administration plans to slash taxes in the US.
Labor Premier Jacinta Allan joins federal Labor and Liberal MPs in blasting Victorian ALP’s own goal attack on Peter and Kirilly Dutton.
Peter Dutton has used his apperance on a popular podcast to say that tech giants, like Facebook, ‘gave us the middle finger’ when the former government sought to curb child exploitation material.
The 39th US president was a humble man of dignity, civility and integrity who served his country and the world.
Donald Trump appears to regard tariffs as a political and geo-strategic weapon as much as an instrument of economic protection of local industries. For him, it’s really all about negotiation.
Jim Chalmers has paved the way for a new year Mediscare campaign, declaring Peter Dutton would undermine the national health insurance scheme, push down wages and increase electricity prices.
The former prime minister and treasurer urge Anthony Albanese to stand up to Donald Trump on tariffs.
The parents of murdered schoolboy Daniel Morcombe have renewed a push for a national public register of child sex offenders.
Chris Minns’s ‘extraordinarily strong’ response to rampant anti-Semitism, and back-to-back high-profile stabbing attacks, illustrated how state leadership could show how to tackle the issues plaguing the heart of the nation.
Anthony Albanese has been forced to order a highly personal attack against Peter Dutton and his wife be scrubbed from the Victorian ALP’s social media accounts.
The first Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory to take control of its town lease is being touted as a model for economic independence and potentially individual home ownership.
The government remains ‘deeply concerned’ about Jamal Rifi’s absentia conviction but ‘welcomes’ new legal efforts in Lebanon to overturn the decision amid a chorus of bipartisan support for the Sydney doctor.
Without broadening its pool of experts, the government’s medicine funding scheme can only subsidise 77 ‘major’ new drugs each year.
Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has decried the ‘tragedy of modern Australia’, which has ‘lost its passion’, as it abandoned policy leadership and followed the pack.
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