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Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition ...

So: expectations can matter, and scare campaigns, if done properly, can make a difference.

This three-minute phone call is the subject of A Dictator Calls, the last novel by the leading Albanian writer, intellectual ...

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Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record ...

I don’t know what to do with myself. I need something to write about.” Anyone who’s faced the boredom and discomfort of ...

It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card holders and other bulk-billed patients would now be charged $7 to see a GP. This ...

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