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In a television interview with Phillip Adams in 1999, Paul Keating remarked that he retained much influence on the international stage.

Entertainer whose outrageous caricatures Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson took the one-man show to new heights

These experts say Medicare is at breaking point and it's time for major reform.

Indigenous leader Yunupingu is being remembered as a great Australian, a statesman, a remarkable artist and a national treasure.

Saturday's Aston by-election looms as a yet another test of the Liberal Party's increasingly fragile position in Australian politics, and for its leader

Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. It enfranchised (white) women very early, in 1902. And it was the first country to give them the vote combined with the right to stand for parliament.

When Dominic Perrottet gave a gracious concession speech after his defeat in the New South Wales election on Saturday night, it was hard to avoid favourable comparison with the United States. There was no sign of rancour or hyper-partisanship. He praised Labor’s Chris Minns for a clean campaign. He predicted…

The Albanese government’s Revive is Australia’s first national cultural policy in ten years. The last was the Gillard government’s Creative Australia in 2013.

"Two inches of that would buy me a washing machine", as one visitor said.

Professor Hocking was instrumental in campaigning for the release of secret correspondence between Buckingham Palace and the governor-general.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will address the Papua New Guinea national parliament and visit the resting place of the late Sir Michael Somare during a two-day visit next week.