Paul Keating
Long live the queen
David Marr The republic once seemed inevitable in Australia, but these days it barely rates a mention. David Marr explains why the passion fizzled out.
Crown and country: the republic debate
David Marr She came down the steps so carefully: an old lady from London who is our head of state. She's game and cheerful but her face gives nothing away.
Still happy to watch while she passes by
The language is more restrained, the fervour more tempered, the clamour less suffocating. But predictions Australia would remain a constitutional monarchy at least so long as Elizabeth sits on the...
'The best is yet to come' - PM's birthday wish
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard, who turns 50 next week, is hoping her best achievements lie ahead.
Once was a warrior, still up for a fight
Deborah Snow Even on a quiet Monday, having lunch with Graham Richardson was never going to be dull, though neither of us expected the somewhat surreal turn events would take as the afternoon wore on.
Rudd surges as the people's choice
Phillip Coorey LABOR would vault to an election-winning lead if it brought back Kevin Rudd as leader, according to the latest Herald/Nielsen poll.
Game over, comrade
Peter Hartcher The Labor Party's national conference is the brief moment every three or so years when the faceless men show their faces, all in one place, all together.
GST will have to rise above 10%: tax expert
Peter Martin THE goods and services tax will have to climb above 10 per cent over time and there will be no way of avoiding the topic at the October tax summit, according to one of the architects of the Henry tax...
Premier plans on goodwill in Barangaroo shift
Matthew Moore THE Barangaroo developer, Lend Lease, is set to seek government compensation before agreeing to remove the planned hotel from its Sydney Harbour project despite a request from the Premier to do so...
Everyone's smiling but real change yet to be seen
Matthew Moore BEFORE report authors Meredith Sussex and Shelley Penn had even boarded their flight home to Melbourne, all the major Barangaroo players were claiming their review as a victory.
Chamberlain backs privacy tort as means of redress
Malcolm Brown MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN, who has suffered more invasions of his privacy than just about anybody else in Australia, said yesterday he would like to see a tort created in this country where a person...
Gillard down for count
Phillip Coorey THE government has flatlined, personal support for Julia Gillard has plunged and Tony Abbott is by far the nation's favoured leader, according to the first comprehensive national poll taken since the...
Star in Sky takes on poisoned chalice
Jessica Wright TOM MOCKRIDGE is one of those bright lights that the former prime minister Paul Keating called ''his stars in the firmament''.
Swan attacks tabloid over carbon coverage
Tim Dick, Clancy Yeates THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, yesterday widened the media debate by attacking News Ltd's tabloid The Daily Telegraph not for its methods of obtaining stories, but for its negative coverage of the carbon...
Michael Gordon
He says, she says in a faux election campaign
Michael Gordon 'HOW do you measure how much emissions we're using? How would you do that?' It's a question at the heart of Julia Gillard's campaign to deliver Australia a clean energy future.
How an Angry young man took a right turn
Steve Dow Angry Anderson, hard rocker and frustrated balladeer, has told the conservative voice of rural Australia, the Nationals: ''You won't be able to hobble me.
Ninth arrest in hacking scandal and Gillard has some media advice
Tim Dick A NINTH person has been arrested over phone hacking at the News of the World in London.
Gillard stands firm as poll puts her behind Abbott
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has suggested her plummeting approval rating with voters may not have bottomed out as she battles to convince the electorate about the benefits of a carbon tax.
Rudd and Turnbull the people's choice to lead parties to victory
Phillip Coorey LABOR would vault to an election-winning position if it chose Kevin Rudd to lead it once more, a new poll suggests.
Royal Mint wants 5ยข coins scrapped
Jessica Wright The five-cent coin should be scrapped because it is too expensive to make and a nuisance, the Royal Australian Mint says. And the federal government is considering dumping it.
