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Djambawa’s message in English, one of his nine languages, is the essential link between Yolngu law and culture and the Australian parliament

Instead of tackling the fallacy and lie, the review came up with this: 'There should be increased joint work between Treasury and the RBA'.

These experts say Medicare is at breaking point and it's time for major reform.

The country's longest serving primary industries minister and former treasurer John Kerin has been honoured at a state funeral at Old Parliament House.

After decades covering federal politics in Canberra, my embarrassment at not knowing Warren Denning’s Caucus Crisis: The Rise and Fall of the Scullin Government (1937) was partly assuaged when an older colleague revealed the same.

Deeply schooled in traditional law through language, song and dance, this extraordinary Aboriginal leader’s voice will not be forgotten

From a land rights "radical" to a steely elder who had the ear of successive prime ministers, the late northeast Arnhem Land leader, Yunupingu, leaves a powerful legacy.

Elder spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of his people, from the Yirrkala bark petitions of 1963 to the voice to parliament

John Kerin steered Australian agriculture onto a world stage away from protectionist policies during the Hawke/Keating era. He is being remembered for his "indelible contribution" to agriculture and the environment.

Before the all-Indigenous team left for England, they beat the Prime Minister's XI, which featured Ian Chappell and Len Pascoe, in Sydney.

The election of the Hawke Labor government on March 5 1983 began an era of once-in-a-century economic reforms that opened the Australian economy to the world. It floated the dollar, eliminated controls on international capital flows, and dismantled the high tariffs that protected local manufacturers from imports. It refocused Australia’s…