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From the Aids crisis to the first on-air same-sex marriage – the LGBTQ+ broadcaster was forged in an era of protest but has always had fun too

Labor highlights tax changes and legacy of late MP Peta Murphy, while Liberals’ Nathan Conroy tells ‘scared’ voters to ‘send a message’ to government on law and order

Department claims key documents outlining reasoning behind joining US-led invasion were not included in an ‘apparent administrative oversight’

Prime minister orders independent investigation into Scott Morrison’s government’s failure to transfer all documents

John Pilger, a giant of journalism born in Australia in 1939, has died at the age of 84, according to a statement released online by his family.

Nick McKim says national security committee documents used to justify the war may answer questions about momentous foreign policy decision

By far the most significant decision the Howard government made in 2003 was to support the invasion of Iraq. Journalists and historians have long maintained there was no submission to full cabinet weighing the pros and cons of the Australian intervention. Cabinet papers from 2003 released today by the National…

The department of prime minister and cabinet blamed ‘administrative oversights’ for the missing records

Cabinet papers from 2003 show there was no formal submission before decision was taken to join US-led ‘coalition of the willing’