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The country's longest serving primary industries minister and former treasurer John Kerin has been honoured at a state funeral at Old Parliament House.

The Greens co-founder didn’t hold back in a far-reaching interview with Crikey, weighing in on the danger of AUKUS, his admiration for Extinction Rebellion activists, and Lidia Thorpe’s Mardi Gras protest.

After decades covering federal politics in Canberra, my embarrassment at not knowing Warren Denning’s Caucus Crisis: The Rise and Fall of the Scullin Government (1937) was partly assuaged when an older colleague revealed the same.

Deeply schooled in traditional law through language, song and dance, this extraordinary Aboriginal leader’s voice will not be forgotten

From a land rights "radical" to a steely elder who had the ear of successive prime ministers, the late northeast Arnhem Land leader, Yunupingu, leaves a powerful legacy.

Elder spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of his people, from the Yirrkala bark petitions of 1963 to the voice to parliament

John Kerin steered Australian agriculture onto a world stage away from protectionist policies during the Hawke/Keating era. He is being remembered for his "indelible contribution" to agriculture and the environment.

In this extract from the latest Crikey Read, author Alison Pennington explains how greed and short-term thinking have pulled the rug out from future generations.

Before the all-Indigenous team left for England, they beat the Prime Minister's XI, which featured Ian Chappell and Len Pascoe, in Sydney.

The election of the Hawke Labor government on March 5 1983 began an era of once-in-a-century economic reforms that opened the Australian economy to the world. It floated the dollar, eliminated controls on international capital flows, and dismantled the high tariffs that protected local manufacturers from imports. It refocused Australia’s…

Polls are showing the prime minister’s net-satisfaction rating is dipping — albeit from its election honeymoon highs.