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Former minister Peter Dutton is expected to run unopposed to be the next leader of the Liberal Party and, in turn, Australia's next opposition leader.

Sorry Day also commemorates the continuity of injustice borne by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Remembering is the least we can do.

Industrial relations issues were front and centre when federal Labor last won office from opposition in 2007. The backlash against John Howard’s “Work Choices” reforms cost both his government and his own seat. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s detailed “Forward with Fairness” policy provided a blueprint for the Fair Work…

Political commentators often use the idea of a political spectrum from left to right as shorthand for understanding political ideologies, parties and programs. Derived from the arrangement of the National Assembly in the French Revolution, it has been a remarkably resilient form of political shorthand.

Someone check on the Andrew Bolt Supporters Page.

Extreme weather events are the new normal. The use of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military is now an unthinkable possibility. And Xi Jinping’s China, our largest trading partner and rising superpower, is pulling down the shutters.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is a politician moulded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.

Deborah James’s eloquence and bravery reduced one reader to tears. But, asks another, can there really be a ‘good death’?

Anthony Albanese has led his Labor Party to victory in the election, ending nine years of conservative rule.

Sydney (AFP) - Anthony Albanese, Australia's 31st prime minister, was rushed to hospital a year ago, after a four-wheel-drive slammed into his car.

Labor’s successful bid for government – only its fifth victory from opposition since the first world war – was based on an experiment that no one could have known would work.