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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…

On reflection, Simon Crean was probably the first domino to fall in a certain madness that seized Labor during the Howard era and presaged a decade of turmoil that only settled down under Bill Shorten’s leadership (2013-19).

Crean, former opposition leader and ACTU president, died suddenly while overseas on Sunday

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Bob Hawke's widow, Blanche d'Alpuget, has told an Indigenous festival that one of his greatest regrets was not delivering a treaty.

The implication of what Philip Lowe said is that unless productivity improves fast, there will have to be a recession.

The Indigenous rock-reggae band soundtracked protests, went behind the iron curtain and opened doors. Four decades later, frontman Bart Willoughby calls it a dream come true

Djambawa’s message in English, one of his nine languages, is the essential link between Yolngu law and culture and the Australian parliament