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Bob Carr is adamant that Mr. Dutton has released a text message exchange between two cabinet ministers in 2019 about Scott Morrison.

ANZAC DAY | "All of us linked across the world by the same duty to honour and remember, and by the same sense of the loss and waste of war."

In all the talk of tackling environmental problems such as climate change, the problem of population growth often escapes attention. Politicians don’t like talking about it. By and large, neither do environmentalists – but former Greens leader Bob Brown has bucked that trend.

Santamaria is the most significant figure in Australian politics never to have held political office

Foreign Minister Bob Carr has told a group of Perth business leaders that he believes that the al-Assad regime was responsible for a devastating chemical attack in Damascus last week, although he does not foresee a role for Australian troops in the conflict.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr won’t say whether Chinese hackers were behind a cyber attack targeting domestic spy agency ASIO.

ANALYSIS: Israel can count on only a handful of friends on the international stage. Australia is one of them. While the government says it is opposed to “one-sided resolutions against Israel”, four Labor statesmen – Bob Hawke, Bob Carr, Kevin Rudd and Gareth Evans – have called for diplomatic recognition ...

The Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr speaks out against the UK departing the EU in a letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague. The letter formed part of evidence submitted to a UK government review of EU member powers.

Despite high rates of vaccination in Australia (more than 80% of over-16s are double-dose vaccinated) and COVID cases trending down, hospitals in NSW, Victoria, and the ACT are still under pressure.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Just as republicans can enjoy the spectacle of a royal wedding without abandoning the idea of an Australian head of state, we need to remind ourselves that Trump is, literally, not our president.

Diplomatic war of words heats up over pending Bali Nine executions.

People smugglers are reported to be offering to put asylum seekers in shipping containers to get them to Australia or New Zealand.

Tony Abbott’s government has been accused of pettiness after incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop axed a plum posting as Australia's next consul-general in New York for former Labor premier Steve Bracks.

Australia’s incoming prime minister Tony Abbott has spent the first working day of his government getting things in order, as Labor looks for a leader.

Shorten indicates he would not run for the Labor leadership if Anthony Albanese wants the top job, in a bid to avoid more disunity and party destabilisation.

ELECTION13 | Federal candidates in Treasurer Chris Bowen's electorate of McMahon have been linked to both corrupt detective Roger Rogerson and political assassin Phuong Ngo as the election campaign turns negative.

Egyptian ambassador to Australia has defended military action against Muslim Brotherhood protesters, while Australian government has urged for restraint from all parties involved in the conflict.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie is making a political comeback, running for Labor in the Brisbane seat of Forde in the federal election.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is facing yet another internal crisis with allegations that the New South Wales Labor Party are engaging in branch stacking.

A Sydney man currently serving 20 years in Bulgarian jail for murder has had his application to serve the remainder of his sentence in Australia rejected.

Japan is set to tell the UN’s top court that its whaling program — opposed by Australia — is “carefully conceived and planned and sustainable”.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promoted many of his key leadership backers with his new look frontbench.

The 14 September Australian federal election date is in doubt as Kevin Rudd puts together a new cabinet and reshapes Labor’s message. Mr Rudd was sworn in as prime minister by Governor-General Quentin Bryce in Canberra on Thursday morning.

A United Nations treaty co-authored by Australia and designed to restrict the sale of illegal arms in the global marketplace has been signed by Junior Defence Minister Mike Kelly in New York City earlier this week.

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Everyone deserves to have fun at every age, we are somehow stuck between childhood and adulthood, and we have stopped doing the stuff we used to do. Play enjoyable and restorative games as we did when we were kids.

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Relations between Hungarian president Viktor Orban and other European leaders seem to have reached a nadir. For years, Orban has pursued a right-wing agenda that has often contradicted the bloc’s core values.

The government’s massive spending stimulus made Labor seem particularly irrelevant. There can be no doubt that if a Labor government had tried anything similar, it would have been subjected to the mother of all campaigns by right-wing media.

In 1946, the Marshall Islands seemed very close for many Australians. They feared the imminent launch of the US’s atomic testing program on Bikini Atoll might split the earth in two, catastrophically change the earth’s climate, or produce earthquakes and deadly tidal waves.

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Consider the journey of a plastic fibre that’s shed from your fleece. A heavy rain washes it into a storm drain or a nearby river. Does the tiny fibre settle there? Or does the river carry it out to the coast where it lingers on the seabed? Or does it ...

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The video game industry is filled with adorable animal characters. Among these characters, a few are fictional hybrids, and even some prehistoric inspired animals. But the commonality between these animals is their cuteness.

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Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election raises a perennial question about what Rupert Murdoch does when the candidate he has opposed wins.

Kevin Rudd’s petition to parliament for a royal commission into the dominance of the Murdoch media in Australia is entitled to be seen as more than an embittered ex-politician’s desire for revenge.

The Democratic National Convention is approaching — in virtual form — and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will present his pick for vice president to the delegates for their affirmation.

Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little respect.

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Australia’s relationship with China is fractured

SPECIAL FEATURE: From deathly pagan ritual to ghoulish dress-ups fun, this is how today’s Halloween tradition came to evolve.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Julian Assange’s case is certainly exceptional, and the human rights concerns over US extradition could justify exceptional intervention.

SPECIAL FEATURE: If the polls are right, Bill Shorten will become the next prime minister. But what kind of prime minister would he be?

Roger Federer’s latest Grand Slam triumph in Australia has raised the question: is he the greatest sportsperson ever? There are a few Aussies in the mix for selection.

Is Melbourne really Australia’s music capital? I crunched the numbers to find that the jury is still out on this claim. Indeed arch rival, Sydney (or even Adelaide) have a chance to claim this title.

OPINION: Donald Trump is delusional and utterly obsessed with himself, and this is a danger to Australia and the rest of the world, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

Anzac advertising campaign by ‘fresh food people’ Woolworths hastily pulled and buried after social media slap down.