Adam Brereton
Adam Brereton is the former opinion editor for Guardian Australian.
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Truckies 'thrilled' as Pauline Hanson joins 1860km charity hay runBurrumbuttock Hay Runners, organised by NSW farmers, is delivering 4,500 bales of hay and other supplies to drought-stricken farms in central Queensland
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48 hours in Adelaide: German-influenced wine and cakes make a foodie heavenUrban redevelopment, quirky little bars, experimental wineries. This once sleepy city and its surrounds are having a moment in the sun
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Former ABC managing director Brian Johns dies aged 79Johns – also an adviser to Gough Whitlam and to Malcolm Fraser, political correspondent and head of Penguin books – remembered as a cultural leader
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Malcolm Turnbull rules out return of Tony Abbott in cabinet reshufflePM says he needs to bring in more women to ministerial ranks, and describes the allegation against former minister Jamie Briggs as ‘a serious matter’
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Trade union royal commission timeline: how it reached its final reportFrom April 2014, it has taken the royal commission into trade union governance and corruption 189 days, 505 witnesses and $45.9m to reach its conclusions
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Lemmy, Motörhead frontman, dies at 70Band pays tribute to ‘noble friend’ Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, who died after learning of cancer diagnosis on Boxing Day
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Australia heatwave: temperatures soar above 40 but no records broken in Sydney – cooling downFollow the latest bitumen-melting developments
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Why I cheered when I heard The Rock is going to be a dad againI haven’t watched pro wrestling since I was a nerdy teen but Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, is one of my heroes: a man who lives his life in a spirit of gratitude
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John Howard's Walks of Wonder: five of the bestWith the unveiling of the former PM’s ‘Walk of Wonder’ in Canberra, the question must be asked: is one route enough for the man who was always on the move?
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Pope Francis departs US after historic tour from Havana to Philadelphia - as it happenedFinal day of visit sees pontiff visit prison in City of Brotherly Love before mass for conclusion of the World Meeting of Families
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Pope in Philadelphia: message of love says family is the 'future' of church – as it happenedFree-wheeling remarks at World Meeting of Families focus on children and grandparents, not abortion or same-sex marriage
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Pope caps New York tour with Madison Square Garden pomp – as it happenedFrancis spoke to UN, students and 9/11 memorial interfaith service before Central Park parade – as it happened
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Pope Francis in New York: priests must 'bear the shame' of sex abuse scandal – as it happenedStrong rebuke followed prayer for Mecca stampede after political day in Washington addressing immigration, death penalty, climate change and abortion
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Q&A: apparently the most dangerous show on Australian televisionThe internecine war between journalists, commentators and politicians is not just over the ABC program. It’s a decades-old tangle of poisonous grudges
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Lighten up, already? Time for NSW smokers to stub out around food – video
As of 6 July, it will be illegal for New South Wales venues to allow smoking while they serve food, even outside. Is this a sign that the nanny state has gone mad or a righteous intervention on the behalf of public health?
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The government is a bigger obstacle to justice for victims than George PellPell has been obstinate, but the relentless focus on him distracts from the government’s failure to support the royal commission’s proposed redress scheme
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Anzac Day as Australian religion: can a bloody defeat ever really be sacred?Anzac Day, designed in 1916 by a little-remembered priest, is solemn enough to give a sense of the numinous missing from public life. But can something founded on a bloody defeat ever really be sacred?
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Les Misérables is about the suffering of the powerful, not the poorForget the merits of state-supplied childcare – Cameron Mackintosh’s rebooted Les Mis is a tale of evil cop versus con. No wonder the Liberal party are fans
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Child abuse victims deserve more than the commonwealth's excusesThe royal commission into child abuse has proposed its redress model. The commonwealth government rejected it before the report was even published
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NSW election: Newtown is a Greens v Labor clash for state's 'most progressive seat' - video
In NSW's most progressive seat, it's Greens v Labor this state election in a battle for the latte-sipping left
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Old boys of Knox Grammar, like me, will always be marked by how close we came to the abuse thereThere was a certain texture to life at Knox Grammar: it made it one of the best schools in Australia. It also allowed child abuse to thrive, for decades, under the watch of the school’s legendary headmaster Ian Paterson
Neurotechnologist Chennupati Jagadish: 'science is fun for me'