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Katharine Murphy on politics Albanese has threaded a needle between the US and China. Now he needs to do the same on Israel-Hamas at home

It’s been a high octane few weeks for the Albanese government when it comes to managing complexity on the global stage. We’ll get to keeping the...

10.11.2023 9

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Katharine Murphy on politics Can Anthony Albanese catch the dragon’s tail to defrost and reboot Australia-China relations?

Five decades ago, almost to the day, Gough Whitlam raised a brimming glass to the party chairman Mao Zedong and the Chinese premier Zhou En-lai after...

03.11.2023 5

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Albanese wanted to end two centuries of silence, but we said no – and failed our First Nations people

T here is something wonderful about election days in Australia. Compulsory voting drags us all in to civic participation. This morning, families...

14.10.2023 90

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Katharine Murphy on politics Peter Dutton is Australia’s figurehead of fear and fake news, like Trump but without charisma

It seemed fitting somehow that the word “restraint” would trigger a fresh round of unhinging in Australia’s political discourse. I’m not sure...

13.10.2023 2

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Josh Frydenberg is choosing life over politics – which paves the way for Full Dutton

Josh Frydenberg is choosing life, having reintroduced himself to his wife and children and slept in his own bed for more than a year. In his shoes, I...

21.09.2023 10

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Katharine Murphy on politics Some Australians seem more outraged by accusations of racism than by racism itself

Politics can meander down some strange paths sometimes, particularly when conflict is not the means to an end but an end in itself. Marcia Langton,...

15.09.2023 6

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The Indigenous voice debate is testing Australia’s democracy – and we can’t give in to rancorous polarisation

E lections are often a dialogue between hope and fear. Emotion is hard currency in politics. Both the yes and the no Indigenous voice campaigns are...

12.09.2023 80

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