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Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australia’s first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives on today as Medicare.

The late one-time party leader assembled one of the most talented frontbenches in political history and fashioned a foreign policy both allied and independent.

Bill Hayden, who served as a minister under Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke before becoming Australia's 21st governor-general, has died at the age of 90.

It is one of the most famous buildings in the world. It has an instantly recognisable silhouette that adorns tea towels, bottle openers and souvenir sweatshirts.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the names and images of deceased people.

The Australian nation came into being following a series of referendums in the 1890s, and they have been a regular feature of Australian democracy ever since. In every decade of the 20th century, there was at least one referendum. However, the 2023 referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…

When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits China later this year he will encounter a nation whose future is about as uncertain as it was 50 years ago when Gough Whitlam became the first Australian prime minister to visit in late 1973.

A key calculation of the Australian PM’s team is that dialogue is of value, even if both sides agree to disagree

PM Anthony Albanese will visit China later this year at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, 50 years after Gough Whitlam’s historic visit, and the jostling begins for the seat of Liberal Senator Marise Payne as speculation mounts that she will retire from politics ‘imminently’.