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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ordered an inquiry into why 20-year-old Cabinet documents relating to Australia joining the United States-led Iraq invasion remain secret, saying Australians have a right to know why their country went to war in 2003

Prime minister orders independent investigation into Scott Morrison’s government’s failure to transfer all documents

A failure by the former Morrison government to provide Iraq War documents to the National Archives will be investigated.

It's Day 87 of the Israel-Hamas war, and Hamas continued to fire rockets toward Israel on New Year's Day. Yemen's rebel army also pursued its disruption of Red Sea shipping, and Hezbollah carried out attacks toward northern Israel that displaced thousands of residents.

Nick McKim says national security committee documents used to justify the war may answer questions about momentous foreign policy decision

By far the most significant decision the Howard government made in 2003 was to support the invasion of Iraq. Journalists and historians have long maintained there was no submission to full cabinet weighing the pros and cons of the Australian intervention. Cabinet papers from 2003 released today by the National…

The department of prime minister and cabinet blamed ‘administrative oversights’ for the missing records

Cabinet papers from 2003 show there was no formal submission before decision was taken to join US-led ‘coalition of the willing’

Previously secret cabinet documents have revealed discussions inside the government before Australia committed to the Iraq War.

High-level discussions about Australia's decision to enter the Iraq War and a deadly virus that swept the world have been revealed in cabinet papers from 2003.

Amir Yass was told an international calling plan was added to his cellphone before his trip to Iraq, but something went horribly wrong.