Labor was delighted at the news that Abbott would re-enter the political scene. “This would be like us appointing Paul Keating as Labor president,” one minister said.
Cast your mind back to a time when leaders were bolder,braver and less captive to the hurtling news cycles of this online age.
Chatter in media circles over a possible sale of Australian Community Media went into overdrive last month. Now we have a better understanding of why.
Gina Rinehart,Australia’s richest person,is standing by the disgraced Victoria Cross recipient after his arrest while another important figure stays silent.
Why are almost a quarter of NSW voters,according to the latest Resolve polling,prepared to back Pauline Hanson’s chimera of a party as it stands in this state?
Nobody asked Minns to muse on the timing of his departure from politics. Was it a slip of the tongue or deliberate?
There are many echoes of Australia’s past mistakes in the government’s tacit approval of Donald Trump’s unilateralism.
Lo and behold,the PM doesn’t want the ISIS brides or their children to return to Australia. Labor’s U-turn is highly suspect.
The pull of the past can be deceptive. It is not only that the past was not the same for everyone. It was often not the past we think we remember,either.
The outlet has used a star-studded event at News Corp’s Australian headquarters to unveil a refresh,but there was one notable absence.