Robert Menzies
- Opinion
- Housing crisis
To fix housing, we must try something radical. Here are three ideas to shift the dial
Australia already has more homes than households. It’s just that too many of our homes cannot house the people who need them.
- Tone Wheeler
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- Opinion
- Poetry
Can poetry help our politics? There was a time in Australia when it did
John Curtin and his political nemesis Robert Menzies were united by their love of poetry. In fact, many great Australian leaders were drawn to verse as a source of relaxation and inspiration.
- George Brandis
- Exclusive
- ADF
The smoke-filled room where anxious men directed their nation at war
The War Cabinet Room at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, was the heart of Australia’s defence administration during World War II.
- Tony Wright
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Liberals ignore, despise and knife their leaders – and drive their party over a cliff
Unlike the Labor Party, which mythologises even its pedestrian leaders, the Liberal Party celebrates only Menzies and Howard.
- George Brandis
- Editorial
- Political leadership
Weak Liberal Party ‘moderates’ as shameless as internal net zero opponents
Any moderate with a shred of self-respect would step off the frontbench in protest at what has unfolded.
- The Herald's View
- Opinion
- Five Minutes with Fitz
John Laws scores our PMs out of 10
There was no more familiar voice in Australian broadcasting than John Laws. At 90, he had lost none of his characteristic alpha male belligerence.
- Peter FitzSimons
What happened to Harold Holt? A new novel puts his widow in the spotlight
A page-turning new book covers the fabulous, forgotten life of Zara Holt and the disappearance of Australia’s playboy prime minister.
- Nick Dent
- Opinion
- Australia votes
Sussan Ley can learn from the best, and worst, Liberal leaders
Successful political parties have a vision of what they stand for. The Liberals need that – and more.
- George Brandis
John Howard says the Liberal Party must be a broad church. Does Peter Dutton agree?
Is Peter Dutton a shape-shifting pragmatist or a true conservative?
- Jacqueline Maley
- Opinion
- Australia votes
This referendum folly is as mad an idea as I have heard in years. Dutton must rule it out
The last thing Australians want is the distraction of yet another ideologically inspired constitutional referendum.
- George Brandis