Paul Keating

Former governor-general and one-time Labor Party leader Bill Hayden has been farewelled at a state funeral. The man credited as the architect of Medicare died in October at the age of 90 after a long illness. Described by some as the…

Australia could be cut off from the world and suffer crippling fuel shortages if the country was unable to protect itself from a sea blockadeIn an address to parliament on Thursday, Richard Marles hit back at critics of the AUKUS deal,…

Anthony Albanese has fielded multiple questions about AUKUS from within his own party room after one of his MPs publicly broke ranks over the multi-billion dollar nuclear-powered submarine deal.Three Labor MPs raised the project at a caucus…

The ABC’s political editor has slammed Paul Keating over the former PM’s attacks on several journalists during last week’s fiery National Press Club speech.On Wednesday, Mr Keating blasted some of the nation’s most senior journalists as…

A top Canberra defence expert has lashed Australia’s multi-billion dollar AUKUS submarine project as amounting to a promise to follow the US into a war against China.The Australian National University’s Hugh White, an emeritus professor of…

When Paul Keating finally won his spectacular double-tap leadership coup against Bob Hawke in 1991, legend has it he sent a message to Hawke’s jittery praetorian guard: “Peace in our time.”In other words, there would be no reprisals, no…

Malcolm Turnbull has joined the chorus of former prime ministers criticising the government’s $368bn AUKUS deal, saying there are more risks than there are rewards. A day after Paul Keating’s extraordinary spray in which he labelled the…

NSW Labor has accused the government of a “secret privatisation agenda” after a senior minister refused to rule out the potential for selling off the state’s assets, saying there is “nothing wrong with privatisation”.Speaking at the…

“The United States is not preparing to go to war against China. The United States is preparing Australia to go to war against China.” Beijing has seized on the words of a former diplomat to portray Australia as the “Ukraine” of South East…

More than a hundred protesters have gathered outside court as a climate activist who blocked the Sydney Harbour Bridge is set to fight her prison sentence.Earlier this month Deanna “Violet” Coco was sent to prison for a minimum of eight…