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Author, ambassador, commentator, critic? It's not always easy to earn a crust as a former PM

Few Australians are losing sleep over how Scott Morrison is going to earn a crust after politics. Few outside the federal Coalition, at any rate. His continuing presence on the opposition backbench serves as a distraction from the present and reminder of the past. Unfortunately, that past keeps intruding on…

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Sunderland 1973 Road to Wembley relived: Glory, glory, Hallelujah as the FA Cup comes to Wearside

Sunderland defeat Leeds United at Wembley in the greatest FA Cup final shock of all-time

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‘Kicking our futures down the road’: a child is a child, not a criminal, Crikey readers say

Crikey readers agree it’s a crime that the age of criminal responsibility is so low and that Indigenous children suffer the most from this injustice.

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The Liberals are the fifth iteration of our main centre-right party. Could The Voice hasten a sixth?

Peter Dutton’s defensive posture of just appealing to "the base’" and trying to hold the Liberals together may prove the losing gambit.

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The Liberals are the fifth iteration of Australia's main centre-right party. Could the Voice campaign hasten a sixth?

Party stability on the progressive side of politics, and repeated party reconfiguration on the conservative side of politics, is a marked contrast in the history of Australia’s two-party political system.

The Conversation

Hell hath no fury like a former PM – but it wasn't always so

In a television interview with Phillip Adams in 1999, Paul Keating remarked that he retained much influence on the international stage.

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Is the Liberal Party really that divided?

The intra-party tension faced by the Liberals isn’t on the scale of implosion of the UAP. Not yet, at least.

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Will a preoccupation with party unity destroy the Liberal Party?

Such has been the turmoil over the Liberal Party’s recent decision to join the National Party in campaigning against the forthcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament that even some of the most reliable supporters in the media have remarked on the internal division.

The Conversation

Sunderland's 1973 Road to Wembley relived: Arsenal shot down as 'Messiah' leads Rokermen to final

Goals from Vic Halom and Billy Hughes downed Arsenal in the semi-final and ended Sunderland's 36-year wait for a Wembley return

Chronicle Live

‘Bloody and accursed despotism’: the wild tale of the last byelection lost by the opposition

Aston was the second time since 1920 that government has won a seat off the opposition in a byelection. What happened the first time?

Crikey

The yolk's on you: a brief history of throwing food and drink on people as protest

Last weekend, anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, better known as Posie Parker, arrived to speak at a rally in Auckland, which was surrounded by supporters of trans rights. During this rally and counter-protest, Keen-Minshull was doused in tomato juice, while other reports claim eggs were also thrown at her.

The Conversation

Sunderland's 1973 Road to Wembley relived: Watson and Guthrie down Luton to earn semi-final spot

Sunderland saw off the Hatters at Roker Park to set up an FA Cup semi-final against high-flying Arsenal at Hillsborough

Chronicle Live

Sunderland's 1973 Road to Wembley relived: Roker Park's greatest night as Man City defeated

Two goals from Billy Hughes and a screamer from Vic Halom booked Sunderland's place in the FA Cup quarter-finals

Chronicle Live

Sunderland's 1973 Road to Wembley relived: Thrilling draw at Manchester City earns last-16 replay

Goals from Micky Horswill and Billy Hughes at Maine Road earned Sunderland a fifth round replay against First Division Manchester City

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Lidia Thorpe’s change of allegiance is not a justification for constitutional reform

Senators and MPs who leave parties may be criticised for betraying their voters but forcing them out would endanger our very democracy

The Conversation

As the Liberal-National Coalition marks its 100th birthday, will it survive for many more?

This week marks one hundred years of the federal coalition between the Liberal and National parties, the most successful governing partnership in Australian history.

The Conversation

The government will not send out Yes and No case pamphlets ahead of the Voice to Parliament referendum. Does this matter?

The Albanese government proposes to ditch the “Yes/No” case pamphlets that are ordinarily posted to voters before a referendum. Is this a good idea, and what, if anything, should replace it?

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Dulbydilla, once a forgotten railway town, is put on the map by hobby historians

Hobby historians with a hunch uncover a long-forgotten Queensland outback town once home to 500 people and eight to 10 pubs.

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Woman, 25, with boyfriend double her age says people regularly mistake him for her dad

Despite the 25-year age gap, Samantha Stinchcombe, 25, and Billy Hughes, 50, say they don't notice the difference as they are "two young-hearted souls" living in Baltimore, US

The Canberra Times

Revamped diner ready to rock 'n' roll

In its heyday, Gundagai's Niagara Café was packed to the rafters with hungry patrons. Now, new life is being breathed back into this art deco icon. Happy days, indeed.

ABC News

Clive Palmer and the United Australia Party claim three former prime ministers as their own. Is that correct?

United Australia Party chairman Clive Palmer claims Sir Robert Menzies, Joseph Lyons and Billy Hughes as former prime ministers who were leaders of his party. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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