The discovery of a cache of sensitive federal cabinet documents that had been forgotten and left lying around gathering dust for more than 40 years is possibly even too far-fetched for political satire.
After governor-general John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government,new prime minister Malcolm Fraser became the target of students activists at Monash University.
Patriotism is irksome,but that’s no reason to shy away from acknowledging our country’s achievements,and its one great flaw.
Healthy debate is constructive,but not when your agenda is aggressively espousing unnecessary division.
If Australia returns a majority No vote,we will wake up on October 15 with no plan to improve Indigenous people’s lives. My grandfather would have implored us to consider the consequences of choosing to do nothing.
The barramundi were of more interest than issues of crucial importance to the people of Arnhem Land.
Whether it was with drunk,missing or newly coined prime ministers,Tony Eggleton,who died on Saturday,played a role in three key moments of Australian political history.
A key figure in the party over four decades,Eggleton was thrust into the national spotlight upon the disappearance of Harold Holt in 1967.
In 1983,after losing the federal election to Bob Hawke just weeks earlier,Malcolm Fraser announced his resignation from parliament.
When Christians and so-called “Christian” nations dismember the Christian message by victimising others,they show the weakness of their grasp of the meaning of Jesus Christ,not the weakness of the message.
Sir Donald Bradman personally intervened at the most explosive juncture of Australian political history,writing to Malcolm Fraser two days after the 1975 “dismissal”.