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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

The former Labor leader called for an end to the power of a prime minister alone to take us to war. Labor has snubbed him and his memory.

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…

Officials in Beijing have described aborted rebellion by Wagner group as Moscow’s ‘internal affairs’

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.

This blog is now closed.

Australian Labor is mourning the death of Simon Crean.