The Hawke Labor government had a strong incentive to seek a new approach to industrial relations when it came to office.
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The Prices and Incomes Accord was a series of agreements between Labor and the ACTU where unions would moderate their wage demands in exchange for improvements in the ‘social wage’.
Gough Whitlam speaks to reporters after being dismissed as prime minister.
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It’s not the first time Australia has grappled with concerns about affordable housing. History offers insights that can help inform contemporary debates and policies.
The Australian delegation to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress in Rome, 1923.
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The formation of the Liberal-National coalition significantly changed Australian politics. But the Nationals’ influence has waned as Australia has become more urbanised.
The ‘White Australia’ ideology was commercialised and used to sell things from soaps and games to pineapple slices.
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Australia’s Constitution is a product of foreign and domestic political influences. It has become one of the enduring aspects of Australian politics and law, for better and worse.
A new book tells a detailed story of how policy decisions about pokies are actually made.
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In Tasmania, a changing cast of actors has colluded to grant extreme riches to a single family, extracted in large part from the state’s most disadvantaged citizens.
Should government perform any tasks listed in the Yellow Pages?
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The government’s multicultural statement stays fairly much in the place where rhetoric around the issue has been located for the past generation – social control and integration.
Cory Bernardi was recently caught up in a dispute over whether he had correctly disclosed a property he owns.
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Would Abraham Lincoln ever have become president if he didn’t stumble into a dry goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and strike up a friendship with its owner, Joshua Speed?
Malcolm Turnbull on the day he deposed Tony Abbott as Liberal Party leader in September 2015.
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By far the most significant projected savings in the government’s omnibus bill is the phasing out of end-of-year supplements for family tax benefit recipients.
Australia must think differently about its relationship with the US under Donald Trump.
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Australian and American leaders over the years have, from time to time, disagreed or said things to cause embarrassment. But, for the most part, such disagreements have been kept out of the limelight.
Chris Wallace (centre) in 1966 with brother Ron and father Arch.
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Mike Baird is the fifth New South Wales premier in ten years, and only one of them lost their job to an election. There’s little time, it seems, to learn and grow as a political leader.
Bob Hawke recently renewed calls for Australia to axe state governments.
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