The former foreign affairs minister and longest-serving NSW premier laments what has become of the language of politics.
The state government’s 10-year environmental record includes not only landmark successes in climate policy,but also vast land clearing and the memory of dead fish.
Allowing Julian Assange to be sent to the US on espionage charges sets a dangerous precedent for Australian citizens,former foreign affairs minister Bob Carr says.
Overlooking Hyde Park,54 Park Street was where the Packers presided over the politics,fashion,commerce and popular culture of Australia for more than half a century.
This Good Weekend article by David Leser was first run in Good Weekend on November 14,1998. Alan Jones's is a world of credits and debits,loyalty and influence. Play it his way and he's yours for life;cross him and he'll never let you forget it.
Whatever politicians thought about Alan Jones,his influence was something they could not turn away from,not least for how he leveraged it across print and TV as well as radio.
Jack Mundey helped shaped the modern city of Sydney by using union power to block the wholesale redevelopment of some of the city's most valuable heritage sites.
Australia has also secured the emphatic support of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in its push for an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus.
Few industries are doing it tougher than regional publishers,many of whom have stopped printing.
Many had written off his chances,but after seven years as a political underdog Bob Carr was set to become the 39th Premier and the 13th Labor leader of NSW.
University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Duncan Maskell has reignited a war of words over the institution’s controversial shake-up of its publishing house,defending it as the right move because the books being put out were not appropriate for a university press.