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HISTORICAL FACTS: Joseph lyons - The Untold Story

A reciprocating engine of money, power and influence: how Australia's 'media monsters' used journalism to cement their empires

Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force than to the Australian media and its place in the nation’s power structure.

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The Liberals are the fifth iteration of our main centre-right party. Could The Voice hasten a sixth?

Peter Dutton’s defensive posture of just appealing to "the base’" and trying to hold the Liberals together may prove the losing gambit.

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The Liberals are the fifth iteration of Australia's main centre-right party. Could the Voice campaign hasten a sixth?

Party stability on the progressive side of politics, and repeated party reconfiguration on the conservative side of politics, is a marked contrast in the history of Australia’s two-party political system.

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Will a preoccupation with party unity destroy the Liberal Party?

Such has been the turmoil over the Liberal Party’s recent decision to join the National Party in campaigning against the forthcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament that even some of the most reliable supporters in the media have remarked on the internal division.

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Nothing like a dame. Or two. Statues of trailblazers unveiled in Canberra

The sculpture of the first women elected to federal parliament has been unveiled in Canberra, on International Women's Day.

The Canberra Times

90 years ago, Yorta Yorta leader William Cooper petitioned the king for Aboriginal representation in parliament

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people.

The Conversation

As the Liberal-National Coalition marks its 100th birthday, will it survive for many more?

This week marks one hundred years of the federal coalition between the Liberal and National parties, the most successful governing partnership in Australian history.

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Tasmanian artist Mary Pridmore dies weeks out from final exhibition of life's work

Mary Pridmore knew time was running out, telling the ABC her final art exhibition in mid-October would be a showcase of her life's work and its exploration of feminist themes — sadly, her death last week means she will not be there to see it.

ABC News

Former PM Joseph Lyons's old school house goes up for sale as regional Tasmania bucks housing trend

Fancy living where a former prime minister used to dispense wisdom? This 1860's school house might be just what you are looking for — if you don't mind a shift from the mainland.

ABC News

United Australia candidate deletes tweet about family link to former PM Joseph Lyons

UAP candidate Elijah Suares said Joseph Lyons was his great-grandmother’s uncle in a now-deleted tweet

The Guardian - AU

Clive Palmer and the United Australia Party claim three former prime ministers as their own. Is that correct?

United Australia Party chairman Clive Palmer claims Sir Robert Menzies, Joseph Lyons and Billy Hughes as former prime ministers who were leaders of his party. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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