Paul Daley
Paul Daley, a journalist of more than two decades’ experience, has covered the national debate since he moved to Canberra in 1993. He has been a political writer, a defence and foreign affairs correspondent and a foreign correspondent for Fairfax newspapers, and a national affairs editor for The Bulletin. He is the recipient of the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism and the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism. He is the author of Beersheeba – A journey through Australia’s forgotten war.
Fear builds as election looms
Paul Daley Yes, it's arrived. We have arrived at that time in the cycle of public life where everything is viewed through the opaque window of a looming election.
Let's run debate up the flagpole
Paul Daley Just over a week ago in Federal Parliament's Great Hall when Prime Minister Julia Gillard led Australia's apology to the victims of forced adoption, the stage was carefully choreographed to reflect...
Diggers keep larrikin spirit alive
Paul Daley BELTING golf balls into the hostile enemy terrain of Afghanistan from inside a secured perimeter may not be the most effective way to dispatch the Taliban.
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More principles, less politicking
Paul Daley Electronic tagging, anyone? Of asylum seekers on community release while awaiting determination of their refugee status, I mean. Along with suspected hard-core criminals.
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Anzac and the bravery after
Paul Daley The centenary of Australia's involvement in World War I is still a year and a half away. But politics - with its instinctive, reflexive appeal to national sentiment - is well and truly gearing up...
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The leadership issue that won't go away
Paul Daley Labor supporters are rightly dismayed at the fortunes of the federal government.
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Labor pains? Up pops Rudd
Paul Daley Labor supporters are rightly dismayed by the fortunes of the federal government.
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No political gap in righting nation's wrongs
Paul Daley Mind the gap. The monumental gap, that is, between indigenous Australians and the rest.
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Mind the gap, right the wrongs
Paul Daley Last Wednesday, Federal Parliament exhibited how it could work - despite the fierce partisanship defining inter- and intra-party relations - towards outcomes of profound national importance.
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Apocalypse over, now PM Abbott?
Paul Daley If you're reading this, the world didn't end on December 21 as some devotees of the Mayan calendar predicted.
'Tis the season to expose folly
Paul Daley Wise men, do your thing. Follow the star and bear gifts.
It's not babysitting when they're yours
Paul Daley Recently, I said no to another late-night Christmas party. You know the sort.
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Drawing curtain on grisly year
Paul Daley WELL, the really, really good news for most Australians is that Federal Parliament has ended for another year.
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Brace yourself for bench warfare
Paul Daley The good news for most Australians is that Federal Parliament has risen for another year.
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Are their deaths less important?
Paul Daley The commemorative courtyard of the Australian War Memorial hints at a story that the institution has stubbornly refused, since opening in 1941, to tell.
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The ticking time bomb of power
Paul Daley The last week in November was supposed to be Julia Gillard's last as Prime Minister. That's what her enemies were saying a few months ago.
A capital defined by the path of war
Paul Daley The real story of Canberra's genesis is not some fairytale of comfortable life in ''the bubble''.
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After the tributes, the wounds remain
Paul Daley It is with terrible, monotonous regularity that our federal parliamentarians rise to eulogise Australian soldiers killed on duty in Afghanistan.
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Baby bonus is still too generous
Paul Daley AS MACHIAVELLI and more than a few in the Gillard cabinet could attest, many are the ways to get ahead - or at least not be left completely behind - in public life.
