Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has pinpointed Malcolm Turnbull announcing the infamous ministerial bonk ban as the beginning of the end of his prime ministership. The controversial policy was announced after Mr Joyce’s extramarital affair with former staffer Vikki Campion, and her resulting pregnancy was exposed by The DailyContinue Reading
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 greatest man to never become prime minister, Mr HaydenContinue Reading
Politics is like reverse alchemy. Instead of turning lead to gold it turns gold to lead. Or, as the late great Neville Wran once observed: “You get nothing in the Labor Party without getting up to your armpits in blood and shit”. And nothing sums up this whole scatological transubstantiationContinue Reading
Scott Morrison‘s most senior advisers have admitted in a bombshell new book that his ill-fated secret trip to Hawaii was his biggest mistake that destroyed his political fortunes. Veteran political journalist Niki Savva writes in her new book, Bulldozed, that Mr Morrison “effectively destroyed his prime ministership on 15 DecemberContinue Reading