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What do Margaret Thatcher and Pauline Hanson have in common?

Like Thatcher, Hanson won’t use the F-word. But it’s central to her appeal

Conservative female politicians are slow to champion feminism, but none more so than populist strongwomen such as Pauline Hanson.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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Can it be 40 years ago? James Hughes in 1986 with his big brother, Karl.

It’s 40 years since 1986. Suddenly, I feel very old

Our peers knew us as the Headbangers. My mum joined People for Nuclear Disarmament. Every memory is a timepiece.

  • James Hughes
Trucks fill up at Girraween in western Sydney on Friday, when diesel was selling for almost $3 a litre.

I was a BP boss and Thatcher’s energy adviser: It’s time to switch off petrol

This is not a war of our making, but we did create our own crisis. And yet Australia has all it needs to kick its dangerous oil dependency.

  • Greg Bourne

Born to be a little wild, but no rebel without a cause: Inside the world of Japan’s first female PM

She plays drums for fun, barely sleeps – and just led her party to a record election win. What challenges does Sanae Takaichi face in Japan’s top job?

  • Angus Holland
Bob Hawke and Margaret Thatcher

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of history.

  • Tony Wright
Long-time prime minister Bob Hawke once held a record for beer drinking while he was at university at Oxford.

Seventy years on, Oxford pub pays tribute to Bob Hawke’s legendary skol

Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954, he drank a yard of ale.

  • Rob Harris
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Turnbull, Thatcher and Packer: Declassified files reveal tycoon’s brush with notorious Spycatcher case

Previously secret documents show how Australian media giant Kerry Packer was almost brought in to end a simmering legal stoush over a former spy’s revealing book.

  • Shane Wright
A new report on the cost of climate change found it will affect Australia’s credit rating

Why does our credit rating matter if the planet is too warm?

It won’t really matter how good or bad our credit is if we are going under thanks to climate change.

Climate wars have not been a feature of British politics. That’s about to change

Labour is widely expected to win next year’s election. But Rishi Sunak is not going to die wondering and is playing the carbon card.

  • George Brandis
aul O’Grady dressed as Lily Savage poses for a photo at home, in south London, 1993.

Paul O’Grady’s drag act as Lily Savage was unashamedly working class

O’Grady’s act differed from the more matronly Danny La Rue and Dame Edna