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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…

Media Monsters, by Sally Young, is indispensable for anyone interested in the dynamics that drive Australian politics.

The discovery of a rare photo from the Spanish civil war raises questions about why volunteers from Australia are not commemorated

In a television interview with Phillip Adams in 1999, Paul Keating remarked that he retained much influence on the international stage.

Such has been the turmoil over the Liberal Party’s recent decision to join the National Party in campaigning against the forthcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament that even some of the most reliable supporters in the media have remarked on the internal division.

Even Sir Robert Menzies knew that it required large-scale government involvement to make housing affordable.

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.

This article references antiquated language when referring to First Nations people. It also mentions names and has images of people who may have passed away.

This week marks one hundred years of the federal coalition between the Liberal and National parties, the most successful governing partnership in Australian history.