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March this year marked the 60th anniversary of a famous “gotcha” moment in 1963, when Labor leader Arthur Calwell and his deputy, Gough Whitlam, were photographed outside the Hotel Kingston in Canberra.

The plan has been compared to the 2018 "bonk ban", implemented by Malcolm Turnbull.

Ben Roberts-Smith has lost one of the most expensive defamation trials in Australia, and along with it his reputation. There are other factors that now need to be considered too.

Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost a defamation case against newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan in a landmark ruling with widespread implications for future criminal trials.

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith's decision to sue the publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, and three journalists, in the Federal Court over a series of articles published in 2018 backfires.

The Victoria Cross recipient sued the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times and three journalists in the Federal Court over a series of articles published in 2018. Today Justice Anthony Besanko will deliver his judgement.

A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been calls to boycott her course on feminism at the University of Melbourne. Posters and stickers around the campus and its environs have declared “Our demands: Transphobes and Nazis off campus” and…

Former Hawthorn welfare manager Jason Burt says he has 'nothing to say sorry for' after he was named in a club investigation into the treatment of First Nations players.

His behaviour was described as "reprehensible" and "perverse" by the judge.