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Former SA premier Jay Weatherill is now Australia’s ambassador to the UK.

The ultimate Labor insider stepping into London’s hot seat

The Australian government’s man in the UK is trying to bring two governments closer together even as one of them tears itself apart.

  • David Crowe

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Mike Baird and Jay Weatherill will be joining forces at the Susan McKinnon Foundation.

In the debate about more federal MPs, let’s ask how we get better ones too

Amid the discussion about whether we need more MPs, we should also explore how to get better ones. 

  • Bevan Shields
Premier Daniel Andrews announced his retirement on Tuesday.

Man of green steel: Dan Andrews takes the billionaire career path

What happens when an immovable former premier meets an unstoppable billionaire?

  • Colin Kruger and Noel Towell
The John Barilaro saga has shone a light on the way plum foreign postings are made.

Jay Weatherill looked a shoo-in for plum London job, now he’s out of the running

The former premier is happy in his new role plus, after the Barilaro controversy, the optics wouldn’t be good.

  • Anthony Galloway
Theatre Bugs managing director Michael Eustice tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday after his high school reunion on Saturday night.

School reunion cluster grows to 19, as SA adjusts to life after COVID-zero

A cluster of COVID-19 cases linked to an Adelaide high school reunion has grown, as South Australia grapples with the inevitable spread after reopening borders.

  • Sarah McPhee
Former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill.

Former SA premier Jay Weatherill tests positive for COVID-19

Mr Weatherill met with the Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas during his time in South Australia.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola and Sarah McPhee
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Orwell adopted his son Richard in 1944. He died when the boy was six.

George Orwell, me and the longest suicide note in Labor history

After Labor’s drubbing in the 2019 election, I was drafted to help rewrite its policy platform. Here’s how it happened.

  • Dennis Glover
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.

Albanese’s slimmed down policy platform lashed by LGBTI community

Equality campaigners have lashed Anthony Albanese’s move to strip back Labor’s policy platform ahead of the next election by removing almost 40 references to LGBTIQ rights.

  • Rob Harris
Nicola Forrest, Co-Chair of the Minderoo Foundation, meets with children at a Goodstart Early Learning Centre in Canberra.

The billionaires pushing for Australians to get universal affordable childcare

Philanthropist Nicola Forrest is on a mission to transform Australia’s childcare system so it works for parents and children instead of being expensive and hard to access.

  • Katina Curtis
Prime Minister Scott Morrison during Question Time at Parliament House

Mansplaining is rife in federal Parliament, but do voters care?

A Labor schism over climate change took the heat off the Coalition's ongoing woman problem, as exposed by Four Corners.

  • Jacqueline Maley