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  In the early days of the Hawke Government, when Labor and a dynamic young treasurer, Paul Keating, kept confounding a hostile and suspicious business community with market-friendly policies, the cartoonist Patrick Cook would draw the then former treasurer John Howard as a battle scarred veteran.     Howard was covered in plasters and bandages of the battles — of which the legends grew — that he'd had with his prime minister Malcolm Fraser, to try to push a deregulatory agenda that was then sweeping other parts of the Western world. By the time Paul Keating was handing down budgets, ...

Updated 4/16/2021 6:20 PM Home developer D.R. Horton hopes to build an 85-home subdivision on the far west side of Hoffman Estates where another company's approved plans for a 75-home neighborhood fell victim to the Great Recession more than a decade ago. The new developer plans to keep the subdivision name its predecessor coined -- Autumn Woods -- for the 36-acre property at the southeast corner of Berner and Summit/Golf Road that was annexed into the village in 2007.   Though a formal proposal has not yet been filed, Hoffman Estates village board members provided positive feedback to D.R. ...

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Author: Joanna Mendelssohn (MENAFN - The Conversation) The Members' Hall of Parliament House is home to the 25 completed portraits of Australia's former prime ministers. The most recently revealed was of Julia Gillard in 2018, painted by Vincent Fantauzzo, a five-time People's Choice Award winner at the Archibald Prize. Indeed, every official prime ministerial portrait has been painted by an Archibald finalist, including some by artists who were awarded the main prize. This will change with Tony Abbott's reported decision to appoint the Australia...

Advertisement “A critic is entitled to dip his pen in gall for the purpose of legitimate criticism,” NSW’s ninth Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, opined in a 1940s defamation case involving an unflattering newspaper review of an obscure detective novel. “No one need be mealy-mouthed in denouncing what he regards as twaddle, daub or discord.” Regrettably, “twaddle” and “daub” – the latter connoting fakery – have fallen out of modern usage. But Sir Frederick’s observation echoes through decades of Australian defamation cases involving opinions, from cartoons and culi...