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Stripped bare and born afresh: how biographies play a role in the building and rebuilding of political careers

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.

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Sydney Theatre Company's Julia powerfully imagines the life and emotions of the woman behind the 'misogyny speech'

Just over 10 years ago, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up in the House of Representatives to deliver one of the most unforgettable political speeches in recent memory.

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Morning Mail: royals’ wealth exposed, Inland Rail blowout, Putin’s paranoid lifestyle

New Guardian investigation sheds light on the more than £1bn in income the royal family made from controversial estates

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Julia review – new play about Julia Gillard misses an opportunity

Justine Clarke is electrifying delivering the former PM’s misogyny speech, but the work fails to reckon with the complexities of her legacy

The Guardian - AU

Chris Minns' minority government may need to go slow — and that could prove to be good for NSW

If history is anything to go by, the 58th government under NSW Labor Chris Minns won't be unstable because it's two seats short of a majority — but it will face some heavy interrogation.

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Safeguard deal shows Bandt's Greens party has come of age

It is understandable if observers have struggled to neatly categorise the agreement struck on Monday between the Albanese Labor Government and the Australian Greens party to progressively reduce industrial emissions.

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Push to outlaw betting ads as big players take billions from punters

The federal government is under pressure to outlaw gambling advertising amid fears Australians are falling prey to soaring marketing budgets.

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Sole parents like me are at the frontline of the cost-of-living crisis. Will Albanese right the wrongs of his predecessors?

Those doing it tough need an adequate safety net. Year after year we hear the same excuses

The Guardian - AU

Forced adoptions leave countless unanswered questions

A decade on from Julia Gillard's national apology for forced adoptions, thousands of people are still searching for information about their family histories.

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Forced adoption survivors head to Canberra with strong message for federal government 10 years after apology

Ten years on from a national apology to thousands of Australians affected by the forced adoption era, survivors head back to Canberra to push for the support they say they were promised, but never received.

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Parliament to reflect on pain of forced adoptions

Marking 10 years since a national apology to people affected by forced adoptions, the Albanese government has announced new funding for support services.

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How the pokies came to decide who gets to run New South Wales

With gambling reform one of the major issues of the coming state election, Crikey looks at how the gaming lobby has held both parties back from meaningful reform for decades.

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Minister Victor Dominello was targeted by ClubsNSW over poker machine reform. Now he's speaking out

A senior Liberal minister has spoken for the first time about how a powerful Australian gambling lobby group forced him out of the portfolio and has called for an investigation into its influence over government.

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Two in five Britons think championing women’s equality discriminates against men

Exclusive: The recent rise of misogynistic views pushed by the likes of influencer Andrew Tate demonstrate the battle to achieve gender equality is far from over, campaigners say

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Pressure mounts on Victoria to follow gambling reforms of NSW and Tasmania

At the height of her gambling addiction, Bree Hughes was visiting up to seven venues each day. She's joined a growing chorus of voices urging Victoria to put the brakes on poker machine losses in the state's most disadvantaged communities.

Crikey

On Tanya Plibersek’s reticent ambition and why Albanese’s team is confused by it

‘It is part of the background noise of patriarchy, the landscape of politics and achievement, that ambition accepted and expected in a talented man will be seen as illegitimate and unappealing in a woman.’

AAP

Government defends contracts for ex-Gillard staffer

The contracting of a former adviser to Julie Gillard was aimed at enabling new ministers to better understand how to interact with departments.

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Humanising capitalism: Jim Chalmers designs a new version of an old Labor project

Treasurer Jim Chalmers begins his Monthly essay “Capitalism After the Crises” with a quote from the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.”

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The Guardian - AU

Self-care is important – but we shouldn’t mistake it for feminist action

As long as there is a big gap between the women who have the most freedoms, and those with the least, our work as feminists is not over

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The story of their life: PMs and their biographers’ loves, sleaze and scandals

A new book examines the biographers of prime ministers past, raising a critical eye to those varied chroniclers of Australia’s political history.

AAP

Staff pressures in preschool sector

Royal Commissioner Julia Gillard has been told that recruiting and retaining staff is a big issue in South Australia's pre-school sector.

AAP

Gillard opens SA's early education inquiry

Commissioner Julia Gillard says the complex set of issues surrounding the provision of high-quality early education and childcare are solvable.

Crikey

‘Morally bankrupt’: gambling reformist blasts Labor over pokie policy

Independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie sees echoes of his fallout with Julia Gillard in 2012 in this year’s NSW election campaign.

The Guardian - AU

Broken promises can be toxic for governments, so axing the stage-three tax cuts could be right but risky

It’s going to be a tough call – one of many that await the Labor government in 2023

Newcastle Herald

Julia Gillard's path to purpose

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Newcastle

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