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With each passing month, Scott Morrison is developing into a post-prime-ministership peculiarity. Well over a year since voters cast him from power, he remains limpet-like in the House of Representatives, defying speculation that he is ready to quit parliament and trigger a byelection in his New South Wales seat of…

Newcastle council boss Jeremy Bath says he's been 'upfront' about Scott Neylon ties.

Few Australians are losing sleep over how Scott Morrison is going to earn a crust after politics. Few outside the federal Coalition, at any rate. His continuing presence on the opposition backbench serves as a distraction from the present and reminder of the past. Unfortunately, that past keeps intruding on…

Clive Palmer’s company Zeph Investments claims the Commonwealth breached a free trade agreement over coal exploration permits and wants $41 billion in damages, and according to Indigenous Bunurong oral history, Harold Holt is swimming in mermaid country.

Still polling strongly, the prime minister might be pondering his predecessors’ experiences after their first year in office

The Coalition’s Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price tells the ABC to rein in ‘activist employees’ after a reporter referred to ‘ongoing genocide’, and former NSW Liberal treasurer Matt Kean lashes out at the NSW ICAC over ‘unacceptable, unexplained and repeated delays’ in reporting its findings on former premier Gladys…

On reflection, Simon Crean was probably the first domino to fall in a certain madness that seized Labor during the Howard era and presaged a decade of turmoil that only settled down under Bill Shorten’s leadership (2013-19).

When Simon Crean opposed Australia’s involvement in the Iraq invasion, he was vilified by the Howard government and News Corp. After the utter disaster of that war, his stand should never be forgotten.

Australian Labor is mourning the death of Simon Crean.