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Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley

Taylor versus Ley, the sequel, shapes up as a box-office bomb

Far from the audience-thrilling rituals of political leadership challenges, this one started out as a flop.

  • Tony Wright

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US President Donald Trump holds up a signed Board of Peace charter.

‘Impossibly flawed’: Veteran foreign ministers sound alarm on Australia joining Trump’s peace board

Two long-serving foreign ministers have cautioned Anthony Albanese against accepting Donald Trump’s invitation to serve on his new Board of Peace.

  • Matthew Knott
John Howard lashed the Prime Minister’s Palestinian call.

‘Please don’t join’: Husic wants Australians out of IDF as Howard warns against Palestinian recognition

The former Labor frontbencher argued there is a risk Australians serving could be implicated in genocide charges over the war in Gaza.

  • Matthew Knott
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Family union in a league of its own

Grandson’s finals matches provide brain training for grandparents.

Jeremy Hearder, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) former diplomat and historian, at the M. E. Bliss Law Library in Canberra.

From Robert Mugabe to Alexander Downer: Jeremy Hearder retires after 65 years as a diplomat

Few people could work the same job for 65 years and not get bored. But Jeremy Hearder did – and he got to criss-cross the world doing it.

  • James Massola
An Australian engineer in Antarctica.

The ‘once-only’ opportunity to expand Australia’s size by almost 50 per cent

Cabinet documents reveal the Howard government moved quickly to lock in a claim over huge areas of the seabed across the Pacific, Indian and Southern oceans, including key areas off Australia’s Antarctic territory.

  • Shane Wright
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Britain needs to explain PM’s green shift, says Australia’s high commissioner

Last month, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was delaying the mandatory take-up of electric vehicles until 2035.

  • Latika Bourke
Tony Staley with former prime minister John Howard.

Tony Staley: The last of the Liberal hard men

Tony Staley was a tough and canny political operator who read the classics and was inspired by poetry. Even Labor’s Graham Richardson was in awe of his audacity.

  • Tony Wright
George Brandis during his posting to London.

Embassy’s ‘woke’ portrait wall is all white in the end

Someone was triggered when portraits were removed from Australia House in London, but the patriarchy will now be uncancelled.

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Peter Reith has raised concerns that the GrainCorp decision, which was supposed to have been made by Treasurer Joe Hockey, makes a bailout of Qantas Airways more likely.

Former Howard government minister Peter Reith dies after battle with Alzheimer’s disease

He was the industrial relations minister in the Howard government which introduced tough reforms following the 1998 waterfront dispute.

  • Stephanie Peatling and Latika Bourke