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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s team is wary of a small uptick in popularity for the government and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Morrison’s media man warns Dutton that PM is gaining momentum

Some of Peter Dutton’s MPs have become jittery about one of Labor’s first small uplifts in political support in 18 months.

  • Paul Sakkal
Bob Hawke greets the crowd at the national tally room in Canberra on election night, March 5, 1983.

The tally room, like the sure thing that was Bob Hawke, is no more

As the latest federal election approaches, the sort of political certainty that once hoisted Bob Hawke to a long prime ministership is in short supply.

  • Tony Wright
Barbara Rugendyke and daughter Sarah.

Barbara lost everything. The road to recovery has taken some unexpected turns

When the media left town and COVID hit, victims of the Black Summer bushfires were left to pick up the pieces. Five years on, here’s what happened to some of them.

  • Penry Buckley and James Brickwood
Some mishaps on the election trail: Kevin Rudd busts in on a choir; Tony Abbott inexplicably eats an onion; Scott Morrison’s rugby tackle trouble; and, Paul Keating’s cake plan falls flat.

‘You ignorant bastards!’ Perils of the election campaign trail

Very rarely, everything goes smoothly on the election campaign trail. Often, things go very, very wrong.

  • Tony Wright
Former prime minister Scott Morrison and a still from a Tiktok video showing the family photo album that was inadvertently given to a charity shop.

Scott Morrison issues plea to return family photo album

Morrison told this masthead the photo album had been accidentally included in a box of items donated to an op-shop. Then it ended up on TikTok.

  • James Massola and Olivia Ireland
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Scott Morrison and Space Centre Australia chief executive officer James Palmer.

Scott Morrison still headed for outer space

The former prime minister, in high demand since Trump’s election win, is headlining a space conference in Sydney in May.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
The mansion is on the desirable north side of St George’s Road, Toorak.

Quick turnaround! A year after sale, Smorgon family Toorak mansion back on the market

Stephen Arvanitis, son of aged care mogul Peter Arvanitis, is selling up the mansion he recently bought from the Smorgon family for about $30 million.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Former prime minister Scott Morrison says he believes COVID likely came from a lab.

Scott Morrison reveals he still meets Trump, spills his theory on COVID origins

COVID-19 probably leaked from a lab in China, Morrison said in a rare interview. “I’m not saying they did it deliberately … but they didn’t tell the world.”

  • Olivia Ireland
Then prime minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump had a good rapport as “surprise” election winners.

What did Australia promise? Inside the room where Trump and Morrison talked tariffs

Australian officials scrambled when they heard Trump was bringing some of his top trade advisers to dinner with Morrison. They knew the trade warriors had an axe to grind.

  • David Crowe and Michael Koziol

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