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Expert warns Australia can't rely on US in China attack

An international security expert has warned Australia against relying on the US, saying anti-immigration policy is weakening the country's position.

AAP · Oct 14

The fight over using super for housing has deep roots in Australian politics. But would it actually work?

Ultimately, the debate is a battle for power over Australians’ savings pool of $4.8tn dating back to the scheme’s inception

The Guardian - AU · Oct 9

Literary pioneer Hilary McPhee launched Helen Garner, published Cloudstreet – and inspired me

Hilary McPhee, who has died, aged 85, was already a legend when I started working in publishing, nearly two decades ago.

The Conversation · Oct 1

Morning Mail: Family plea for more Nepal aid; the scourge of sexual choking; and Keating’s legacy

Akash Venkatraman waits desperately for news of his missing parents; former PM talks about how it’s important that Australia keeps thinking big

The Guardian - AU · Sep 2

‘Timidity is a virus’: Paul Keating fights the fading of the light as he seeks to enshrine his legacy

As a major new book about the former prime minister goes on sale, he talks about meeting the Queen, Trump’s aims, and why his big vision will never fade

The Guardian - AU · Sep 2

Best Australian books out in September: a Big Little Lies sequel, Keating’s vision and ‘superagers’

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU · Sep 1

Friday essay: Don Watson’s book on Paul Keating ended their friendship – is it our best ever political memoir?

Paul Keating never wrote a memoir. He has plenty of stories to tell, opinions to share and publishers who’d jump at the chance to help. Whenever the old feud between Keating and his predecessor Bob Hawke reignited, as it occasionally did, the latter wielded the prospect of a memoir like…

The Conversation · Aug 27

Paul Kelly’s exceptional history charts the decline and fall of the Coalition – but leaves questions unanswered

The Twilight of Exceptionalism is veteran journalist Paul Kelly’s latest contribution to the chronicles of Australian political history. In the tradition of Edward Gibbon, it’s a story of the decline and fall – not the rise and fall – of the Coalition government from 2013 to 2022. And in this…

The Conversation · Aug 17

Massive wins and the promise of change – but that’s where the Starmer-Albanese similarities end

While Anthony Albanese calls ousted British PM Keir Starmer his mate, the pair share very different political fortunes

The Guardian - AU · Jun 26

Grattan on Friday: Albanese’s broken promises have played into Hanson’s insurgency

After Labor targeted the threat of One Nation in a recent appeal to supporters for donations, the insurgents played tit for tat.

The Conversation · Jun 11