Federal politics
A dinner date with Billy Snedden
There was once a speaker of the Australian parliament who loved to travel overseas, and who especially enjoyed the sensual benefits that taxpayer-provided travel could deliver.
It was the end of the Haight-Ashbury rock ’n’ roll era in San Francisco. I was living there with my young family, on California and Laguna
The constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians requires meaningful consultation
Talk of stripping citizenship is just one example of Tony Abbott’s alarmist rhetoric
The 2015 budget has come and gone, but where is Joe Hockey's National Conversation?
Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th prime minister of Australia on 24 June 2010 and served in that office until June 2013. She was the first woman to serve as Australia’s prime minister. Her memoir, My Story, is a fascinating account of her time in office and the life she is now making for herself as a professor
How economic modelling is used to circumvent democracy and shut down debate
Journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue interviewed women who lead the way in a range of fields for her book The Climb: Conversations with Australian women in power.
Journalist and former politician Mary Delahunty was granted exclusive insider access to Prime Minister Julia Gillard during her last six
There is a jarring disconnect between social media–fuelled activism and general disenfranchisement with politics. How are journalists bridging the divide?
Madonna King (journalist and biographer of Joe Hockey), Mary Delahunty (author of Public Life, Private Grief and Gravity: Inside the PM’s office
Part 1 | Part 2 In this frank and enlightening conversation, former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser discusses the guiding ideas and key moments of his political career (and subsequent...
