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ArticleBail­outs, wel­fare ‘drag us down’

Labor has been warned that the nation’s liv­ing stand­ards are under threat from a “neg­at­ive spiral” of bail­outs and cor­por­ate wel­fare, as a former top Treas­ury offi­cial joined lead­ing eco­nom­ists urging the gov­ern­ment to tighten its fiscal...

ArticleEX-ADF chief dis­owns his Afgh­anistan medal

Former Defence chief Angus Camp­bell has quietly set aside his highest mil­it­ary hon­our fol­low­ing his appoint­ment as ambas­sador to the European Union and NATO, amid sim­mer­ing anger among vet­er­ans over his hand­ling of war crimes alleg­a­tions...

Article‘Sixty per cent of kids mis­treated’

It is not prac­tical nor afford­able for Aus­tralian gov­ern­ments to remove every neg­lected or abused child from their fam­il­ies because as many as 62 per cent have been beaten, sexu­ally abused or exposed to forms of harm that could trig­ger...

ArticleStaffer saga: Howard’s blast for all

Former prime min­is­ter John Howard has cri­ti­cised both the Albanese and Mor­rison gov­ern­ments over their treat­ment of former Lib­eral staffer Fiona Brown in the wake of her $1.48m set­tle­ment with the com­mon­wealth over the Brit­tany Hig­gins...

ArticleHow key wit­ness broke her silence after 40 years

ArticleTHE POISONED WIFE

In a new pod­cast, The Aus­tralian’s Hed­ley Thomas and Karina Ber­ger invest­ig­ate the unsolved 1986 murder of 30-year-old preg­nant mother Rosslyn Mcqueen, poisoned with strych­nine in her own home. Her hus­band, Ray Mcqueen, was charged with her...