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National politics has moved on a long way but it’s the familiar Paul Keating - pugnacious, brooding, reflective, funny - who bursts through in the first of a series of interviews with the ABC’s Kerry O'Brien…
Those in the Abbott government are not great fans of the United Nations or of multilateralism in general. Yet the government has inherited from Labor the two year temporary seat on the Security Council…
The big brothers and sisters in the Prime Minister’s Office have been on the job in vetting the troops’ media appearances – right down to a backbencher on pay TV. Jane Prentice, a Liberal from Queensland…
Joe Hockey is being prodded by Labor to follow his free market instincts over the controversial foreign takeover bid for agri-giant GrainCorp, while the Nationals continue their assault on the proposal…
When Deputy PM Warren Truss today drew a line in the sand against the takeover bid for the agri-giant GrainCorp, it was a big reminder that the government has serious internal differences which will test…
AusAID on Friday formally became part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with the road ahead including a drastic shrinking of the planned aid budget, redundancies, jostling for jobs, and cultural…
After Labor today decided to dig in on carbon pricing, it now seems almost certain that Tony Abbott will have to wait until the new Senate arrives next July to get his repeal legislation through. In opting…
The Australian Electoral Commission, which should be above controversy, finds itself at the centre of a perfect storm. In recent weeks Clive Palmer, albeit without evidence, has blackened its name at every…
Bill Shorten can’t win the test he faces on the government’s legislation to repeal the carbon tax - it is a matter of what will do Labor least damage. Tony Abbott is trying to psyche the opposition into…
We used to wait 100 days to draw up an initial report card on a government but now we’re down to 50 days. Today is that milepost (since the election) and Tony Abbott made something of it at the weekend…