In high school,Prue Car was always steering classroom discussions towards politics - now she’s education minister.
To be represented on the international stage by Penny Wong is a joy.
Paul Keating was not the main target of Penny Wong’s appearance at the National Press Club on Monday. But she hit him anyway.
The foreign minister used her press club speech to hit out at critics who take “self-satisfied potshots” at the US,but attracted more criticism from Paul Keating.
Something new and nasty has entered the equation between politicians and journalists.
Should the Australian prime ministership be fractionally more presidential? Some smallish changes would boost the prestige of the office.
A key player in helping Paul Keating roll Bob Hawke,Stephen Smith now has a major role to play as Australia’s high commissioner to London.
How long before the Liberals hold their closing down sale,Labor becomes the dominant party and the once-derided Greens move to occupy the vacant sensible left?
Members of an Australian parliamentary delegation have been forced to explain the former prime minister’s view that the plan is “the worst deal in all history”.
There’s no avoiding the fact that it makes little difference who you vote for next Saturday. You’ll end up with a politician.
Inconvenient facts exist in a universe parallel to the one in which Australian politics is actually conducted. But there are signs that the time for deluded consensus is running out.