Malcolm Turnbull is never far from the front pages (or even the covers of men’s fashion magazines!) usually with stories…

I have over the years passed up many an opportunity to hear Keysar Trad in the flesh. Publicist, poet, media…

The mystique of Anzac Day has always been a challenge to historians. The troops of several countries at Gallipoli fought…

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It was the only local meeting that I managed to get to in the NSW election campaigns. I expected the…

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The influential American journal Foreign Affairs has not published an article about Australian foreign policy for fifty years. Prime Minister…

It was one of the Prime Minister’s best speeches. He was clear, eloquent and convincing. Clear about the terrorist threats…

There were no milling TV crews or reporters at Peter Costello’s launch last week in Melbourne of the new edition…

Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…

The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…