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Whitlam, Nixon, Albanese: PM uses Great Wall to place himself in history

In case the symbolism wasn’t obvious on a muggy Wednesday morning just outside Beijing, the prime minister spelled it out.

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WA Today

Paul Sakkal

Whitlam, Nixon, Albanese: PM uses Great Wall to place himself in history

In case the symbolism wasn’t obvious, on a muggy Wednesday morning just outside Beijing, the prime minister spelled it out.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

Whitlam, Nixon, Albanese: PM uses Great Wall to place himself in history

In case the symbolism wasn’t obvious, on a muggy Wednesday morning just outside Beijing, the prime minister spelled it out.

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The Age

Paul Sakkal

Whitlam, Nixon, Albanese: PM uses Great Wall to place himself in history

In case the symbolism wasn’t obvious on a muggy Wednesday morning just outside Beijing, the prime minister spelled it out.

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Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

China and Xi give Albanese a warm welcome, but another side is never far away

The meeting between the two leaders was jovial, as both smiled for the cameras. But several photographers were kept away, and other journalists had...

yesterday 1

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

China and Xi give Albanese a warm welcome, but another side is never far away

The meeting between the two leaders was jovial, as both smiled for the cameras. But several photographers were kept away, and other journalists had...

yesterday 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

China and Xi give Albanese a warm welcome, but another side is never far away

The meeting between the two leaders was jovial, as both smiled for the cameras. But several photographers were kept away, and other journalists had...

yesterday 3

The Age

Paul Sakkal

China and Xi give Albanese a warm welcome, but another side is never far away

The meeting between the two leaders was jovial, as both smiled for the cameras. But several photographers were kept away, and other journalists had...

yesterday 1

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

Why Twiggy’s happy to cut the oranges for Team Australia

Andrew Forrest, the mining tycoon turned climate saviour, was in trademark form as he – wearing a Ukraine flag pin on his jacket – praised the PM,...

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WA Today

Paul Sakkal

Why Twiggy’s happy to cut the oranges for Team Australia

Andrew Forrest, the mining tycoon turned climate saviour, was in trademark form as he – wearing a Ukraine flag pin on his jacket – praised the PM,...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

Why Twiggy’s happy to cut the oranges for Team Australia

Andrew Forrest, the mining tycoon turned climate saviour, was in trademark form as he – wearing a Ukraine flag pin on his jacket – praised the PM,...

previous day 8

The Age

Paul Sakkal

Why Twiggy’s happy to cut the oranges for Team Australia

Andrew Forrest, the mining tycoon turned climate saviour, was in trademark form as he – wearing a Ukraine flag pin on his jacket – praised the PM,...

previous day 7

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

Albanese’s sunny welcome in Shanghai overshadowed by AUKUS dilemma

Recent engagements between Australia and China have been dripping in niceties, but the shadow of Trump looms over the prime minister’s six-day tour...

sunday 3

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

Albanese’s sunny welcome in Shanghai overshadowed by AUKUS dilemma

Recent engagements between Australia and China have been dripping in niceties, but the shadow of Trump looms over the prime minister’s six-day tour...

sunday 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

Albanese’s sunny welcome in Shanghai overshadowed by AUKUS dilemma

Recent engagements between Australia and China have been dripping in niceties, but the shadow of Trump looms over the prime minister’s six-day tour...

sunday 10

The Age

Paul Sakkal

Albanese’s sunny welcome in Shanghai overshadowed by AUKUS dilemma

Recent engagements between Australia and China have been dripping in niceties, but the shadow of Trump looms over the prime minister’s six-day tour...

sunday 3

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

‘Haven’t learnt our lesson’: Inside the Dutton campaign as it enters the final stretch

With one week to go before election day, Liberal Party insiders are asking themselves what they can do to turn their campaign’s fortunes around.

25.04.2025 9

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

‘Haven’t learnt our lesson’: Inside the Dutton campaign as it enters the final stretch

With one week to go before election day, Liberal Party insiders are asking themselves what they can do to turn their campaign’s fortunes around.

25.04.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

‘Haven’t learnt our lesson’: Inside the Dutton campaign as it enters the final stretch

With one week to go before election day, Liberal Party insiders are asking themselves what they can do to turn their campaign’s fortunes around.

25.04.2025 10

The Age

Paul Sakkal

‘Haven’t learnt our lesson’: Inside the Dutton campaign as it enters the final stretch

With one week to go before election day, Liberal Party insiders are asking themselves what they can do to turn their campaign’s fortunes around.

25.04.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

Are you a winner or a loser in this budget?

Nurses, schoolchildren and beer drinkers all had reason to toast this year’s budget. Some notable others much less so.

25.03.2025 8

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

Are you a winner or a loser in this budget?

Nurses, schoolchildren and beer drinkers all had reason to toast this year’s budget. Some notable others much less so.

25.03.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

Are you a winner or a loser in this budget?

Nurses, schoolchildren and beer drinkers all had reason to toast this year’s budget. Some notable others much less so.

25.03.2025 10

The Age

Paul Sakkal

Are you a winner or a loser in this budget?

Nurses, schoolchildren and beer drinkers all had reason to toast this year’s budget. Some notable others much less so.

25.03.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

Playing hard or being ‘reckless’? Dutton ramps up attack

The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?

25.01.2025 10

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

Playing hard or being ‘reckless’? Dutton ramps up attack

The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?

25.01.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

Playing hard or being ‘reckless’? Dutton ramps up attack

The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?

25.01.2025 8

The Age

Paul Sakkal

Playing hard or being ‘reckless’? Dutton ramps up attack

The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?

25.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

Labor had a hip-pocket agenda on chips and Oreos. Dutton and war cut in

As the world moved towards the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks and the Middle East spiralled toward ever greater conflict this...

05.10.2024 5

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

Labor had a hip-pocket agenda on chips and Oreos. Dutton and war cut in

As the world moved towards the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks and the Middle East spiralled toward ever greater conflict this...

05.10.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

Labor had a hip-pocket agenda on chips and Oreos. Dutton and war cut in

As the world moved towards the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks and the Middle East spiralled toward ever greater conflict this...

05.10.2024 10

The Age

Paul Sakkal

Labor had a hip-pocket agenda on chips and Oreos. Dutton and war cut in

As the world moved towards the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks and the Middle East spiralled toward ever greater conflict this...

05.10.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

How the PM’s captain’s call to stop a culture war blew up in his face

It was an unexpected message sent to Labor MPs last Sunday morning that set off the fastest climbdown in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first...

30.08.2024 3

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

How the PM’s captain’s call to stop a culture war blew up in his face

It was an unexpected message sent to Labor MPs last Sunday morning that set off the fastest climbdown in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first...

30.08.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

How the PM’s captain’s call to stop a culture war blew up in his face

It was an unexpected message sent to Labor MPs last Sunday morning that set off the fastest climbdown in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first...

30.08.2024 3

The Age

Paul Sakkal

How the PM’s captain’s call to stop a culture war blew up in his face

It was an unexpected message sent to Labor MPs last Sunday morning that set off the fastest climbdown in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first...

30.08.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

Rowland in the deep on Labor’s big gamble

Cautious to the point of being circumspect, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is not a risk-taking politician. Her reluctance to go as far...

21.08.2024 2

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

Rowland in the deep on Labor’s big gamble

Cautious to the point of being circumspect, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is not a risk-taking politician. Her reluctance to go as far...

21.08.2024 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

Rowland in the deep on Labor’s big gamble

Cautious to the point of being circumspect, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is not a risk-taking politician. Her reluctance to go as far...

21.08.2024 1

The Age

Paul Sakkal

Rowland in the deep on Labor’s big gamble

Cautious to the point of being circumspect, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is not a risk-taking politician. Her reluctance to go as far...

21.08.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal

First Trump, now Dutton: Albanese road tests ‘weird’ attack on opposition

Anthony Albanese and his Labor ministers are taking a leaf from the US Democrat playbook and painting their opponents as a bunch of nasty oddballs....

13.08.2024 3

WA Today

Paul Sakkal

First Trump, now Dutton: Albanese road tests ‘weird’ attack on opposition

Anthony Albanese and his Labor ministers are taking a leaf from the US Democrat playbook and painting their opponents as a bunch of nasty oddballs....

13.08.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Sakkal

First Trump, now Dutton: Albanese road tests ‘weird’ attack on opposition

Anthony Albanese and his Labor ministers are taking a leaf from the US Democrat playbook and painting their opponents as a bunch of nasty oddballs....

13.08.2024 6

The Age

Paul Sakkal

First Trump, now Dutton: Albanese road tests ‘weird’ attack on opposition

Anthony Albanese and his Labor ministers are taking a leaf from the US Democrat playbook and painting their opponents as a bunch of nasty oddballs....

13.08.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Paul Sakkal