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A Queensland company owned by a family that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Liberal National Party was given a five-year $1.82 billion contract to operate refugee services on Nauru, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s springtime travel schedule points to an October 14 Voice to Parliament referendum.

Rudd says he is anxious for the future of democracy and invokes Paul Keating as he reveals portrait full of symbols of his time in office

The monarchists know why dictator Dan *really* cancelled the games. Read all about it, plus plenty more tips and murmurs from the Crikey bunker.

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…

Once scarce, royal commissions have become common in recent years — the result of a Coalition government keen to politically manage crises.

The Coalition’s Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price tells the ABC to rein in ‘activist employees’ after a reporter referred to ‘ongoing genocide’, and former NSW Liberal treasurer Matt Kean lashes out at the NSW ICAC over ‘unacceptable, unexplained and repeated delays’ in reporting its findings on former premier Gladys…

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).

When Simon Crean opposed Australia’s involvement in the Iraq invasion, he was vilified by the Howard government and News Corp. After the utter disaster of that war, his stand should never be forgotten.

Australian Labor is mourning the death of Simon Crean.