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Former government minister and Andrews’ close colleague Gavin Jennings has registered as a lobbyist -- with a Liberal-aligned firm.

A Bigger Picture on Turnbull memoir superspreaders We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A long-running investigation into the “super-spreading” of Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir has netted $30,000 in settlement payments and drawn in top ranking Coalition leaders in a “family tree” revealing who received the manuscript and forwarded it on. The family tree diagram, compiled by publisher Hardie Grant and its inves...

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), briefs the press on the General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS with co-facilitators Neville Gertze, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Namibia to the United Nations; and Mitch Fifield, Australia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Yana Panfilova, a person openly living with HIV and member of GNP+ Global Network of People Living with HIV.

A new United Nations political declaration on HIV and AIDS adopted at the High Level Meeting in New York will drive greater involvement of people living...

UN General Assembly backs declaration that commits members to reduce AIDS-related deaths to less than 250,000 by 2025.

Normal text size Very large text size In 2010 an Australian businessman, Peter Mason, was sitting in his Sydney office when the phone rang. He didn’t know that he was about to have a conversation with a spy he’d never met. It was a story he would be telling for years to come. Australia’s then director-general of security, the formal title of ASIO’s chief, introduced himself. David Irvine proceeded to invite Mason to a one-on-one lunch. Mason is very well known in corporate A...

Upgrading Australia’s communications network meant our national security experts had to get to grips with tech titan Huawei’s ties to the Chinese government. A ban would infuriate Chinese leaders. The alternative was worse.

UNAIDS More than 150 civil society representatives from 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific joined the first virtual regional consultation on the upcoming United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS. “Your views are important. We need them, and they really matter for the success of the political declaration,” said Mitch Fifield, Australia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and one of the two co-facilitators for the high-level meeting process, in his opening rem...

A photoshopped image of Fiona Scott and Tony Abbott that circulated in 2013 (Image: Provided) Fiona Scott had a sinking feeling the moment then Liberal leader Tony Abbott opened his mouth and described her as having “a little sex appeal” during the 2013 federal election campaign. “I was in a bit of shock and I went home and I thought ‘this is going to really hurt tomorrow’,” Scott recalled. And it did. The “sex appeal” label made her life a misery on the campaign trail. “It s...

A photoshopped image of Fiona Scott and Tony Abbott that circulated in 2013 (Image: Provided) Fiona Scott had a sinking feeling the moment then Liberal leader Tony Abbott opened his mouth and described her as having “a little sex appeal” during the 2013 federal election campaign. “I was in a bit of shock and I went home and I thought ‘this is going to really hurt tomorrow’,” Scott recalled. And it did. The “sex appeal” label made her life a misery on the campaign trail. “It s...