Tony Abbott and Liz Truss team up to fight ‘net zero mind virus’

Tony Abbott and Liz Truss team up to fight ‘net zero mind virus’

The two former prime ministers,both drummed out of office by their peers,found they had much to agree on – including their relatively short tenures in the top job.

  • byMichael Koziol

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Albanese’s Tourette’s slur capped a question time too dire for Liz Truss
Political Sketch
Political leadership

Albanese’s Tourette’s slur capped a question time too dire for Liz Truss

The former UK prime minister had already left by the time current Australian PM lost his cool and resorted to an offensive playground insult.

  • byNick Bonyhady
Moving pictures tell heartbreaking story

Moving pictures tell heartbreaking story

One day,across a field pockmarked with bomb craters,two parties might walk towards each other in tears and embrace,remembering all those lost on both sides in a stupid,pointless,unwinnable war. I wait for that day.

Liz Truss goes to Canberra,courtesy of Peter Dutton

Liz Truss goes to Canberra,courtesy of Peter Dutton

Despite a record of failure,the former British prime minister is a hit with some of our local politicians.

  • byStephen Brook andKishor Napier-Raman
Boris Johnson returns to Australia for exclusive tour

Boris Johnson returns to Australia for exclusive tour

The former British prime minister will spruik his new memoir in Sydney and Melbourne in December,but tickets aren’t going cheap.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
So long UK Conservatives,and thanks for all the memes
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UK election

So long UK Conservatives,and thanks for all the memes

The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature,but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.

  • byRob Harris
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Britain’s best hope is a PM with the charisma of frozen peas

Britain’s best hope is a PM with the charisma of frozen peas

A boring prime minister in Keir Starmer may be the best Britain can hope for if it’s to end the omnishambles era.

  • byNick Bryant
UK politics so much funnier than fiction,comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
Analysis
UK politics

UK politics so much funnier than fiction,comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’

The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.

  • byRob Harris
Number 10 was a ‘prison infested with fleas’,says former British PM

Number 10 was a ‘prison infested with fleas’,says former British PM

She felt “itchy”,like a prisoner,and unsuited to making the speech on the Queen’s death,Liz Truss writes in her memoir.

  • byGenevieve Holl-Allen
Former PM Liz Truss charged thousands for ‘summer parties’,bathrobes,slippers

Former PM Liz Truss charged thousands for ‘summer parties’,bathrobes,slippers

The former British PM has been asked to pay for costs incurred while she spent time at the Chevening estate as foreign secretary.

  • byDaniel Martin
Scott Morrison,in Tokyo,to warn China would start war with ‘bits and bytes’ not bullets

Scott Morrison,in Tokyo,to warn China would start war with ‘bits and bytes’ not bullets

Three former prime ministers have come together to say that democracies can only stare down China by working together.

  • byLatika Bourke