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Part two of A Dictator Calls takes us decades away from Stalin and Pasternak. It is 2015 and the writer still can’t rid ...

Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition ...

It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card holders and other bulk-billed patients would now be charged $7 to see a GP. This ...

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As Washington representative of Australia’s Office of National Intelligence, or ONI, for most of Donald Trump’s first presidential term, Ben Scott had a ringside seat on the convulsions in America’s ...

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“When I die, will you wear a black armband?” Helen Garner asks her footballer grandson. “Yes,” he replies, unselfconsciously declaring both his love and his acceptance that she will die. They are ...

High above Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, next to an ancient fortress, stands a colossal figure. Kartlis Deda (or Mother of Georgia) is a twenty-metre statue of a woman holding a cup of wine in one hand ...