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During his recent National Press Club appearance, former PM Paul Keating scolded mainstream media journalists — who deserved every stinging syllable of his pinpoint-accurate words.

Messin’ round with Paul Keating’s franking credits? Wasn’t Bill Shorten seen as the bogey man for that out of touch step?

Stuart Robert would take meetings with people during parliamentary sitting days while deliberately starving himself. The then minister for government services and the National Disability Insurance Scheme was proud of it, actually. He told anyone who would listen that he ate nothing, sometimes for days in a row, while the nation’s MPs were in Canberra working their longest hours. “Do you know why?” he said to one person with whom he was meeting in late 2019, before taking the liberty to ans...

Yesterday, the Albanese government fulfilled its election commitment to end the legal purgatory of temporary protection visas (TPVs) for around 19,000 asylum seekers.

Scott Morrison’s prime ministership is over, but there is a point at which hate becomes more toxic to the hater than the hatee.

One of the most timeless traditions around the holidays—dating back centuries—is the baking and decorating of gingerbread houses. Covered in candy and icing, gingerbread designs have evolved from delicious treats to decorative, life-size works of art. In fact, the largest gingerbread house ever created was 21 feet tall, nearly the size of a tennis court and contained 35.8 million calories, entering the Guinness World Records in 2013. Hilton pastry chefs love to get in on the fun, revealing f...

By the Albanese Government focusing on this area it is emphasising its credentials in cleaning up government. By so doing it seeks to delegitimise the previous administration.

Former prime minister Scott Morrison will be censured by parliament this week, but his Coalition colleagues believe the move is gratuitous.

The book sheds light on the secret and unprecedented centralisation of power in the hands of the prime minister as the ruling class faced demands from workers for protection from COVID-19 and prepared for a US-led war against China.

The federal Attorney-General wrote to the former prime minister on Monday, warning him to cease leaking sensitive national security information to Australian journalists.