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Brisbane Times

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The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

yesterday 2

WA Today

Rob Harris

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

yesterday 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

yesterday 10

The Age

Rob Harris

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

yesterday 3

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 6

WA Today

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 30

The Age

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 4

WA Today

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 5

The Age

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 3

WA Today

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 7

The Age

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 10

The Age

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him.

27.11.2025 5

WA Today

Rob Harris

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him.

27.11.2025 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him.

27.11.2025 5

The Age

Rob Harris

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him.

27.11.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Putin thought he could take this city in three days. Now they wait to toast his demise with champagne

Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still believe democracy is...

26.06.2025 3

WA Today

Rob Harris

Putin thought he could take this city in three days. Now they wait to toast his demise with champagne

Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still believe democracy is...

26.06.2025 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Putin thought he could take this city in three days. Now they wait to toast his demise with champagne

Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still believe democracy is...

26.06.2025 7

The Age

Rob Harris

Putin thought he could take this city in three days. Now they wait to toast his demise with champagne

Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still believe democracy is...

26.06.2025 2

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Once the West’s great hero, Zelensky is now fighting to keep a divided world on his side

When the Ukrainian president travelled to the UK on Monday to shore up support, he ditched his trademark military fatigues. It was a subtle but...

24.06.2025 4

WA Today

Rob Harris

Once the West’s great hero, Zelensky is now fighting to keep a divided world on his side

When the Ukrainian president travelled to the UK on Monday to shore up support, he ditched his trademark military fatigues. It was a subtle but...

24.06.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Once the West’s great hero, Zelensky is now fighting to keep a divided world on his side

When the Ukrainian president travelled to the UK on Monday to shore up support, he ditched his trademark military fatigues. It was a subtle but...

24.06.2025 4

The Age

Rob Harris

Once the West’s great hero, Zelensky is now fighting to keep a divided world on his side

When the Ukrainian president travelled to the UK on Monday to shore up support, he ditched his trademark military fatigues. It was a subtle but...

24.06.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

How Trump obliterated the best-laid plans of world’s most powerful military alliance

The US president was meant to be the guest of honour in the Netherlands this week. But his decision to bomb Iran has instead made him a wildcard...

23.06.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

How Trump obliterated the best-laid plans of world’s most powerful military alliance

The US president was meant to be the guest of honour in the Netherlands this week. But his decision to bomb Iran has instead made him a wildcard...

23.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

How Trump obliterated the best-laid plans of world’s most powerful military alliance

The US president was meant to be the guest of honour in the Netherlands this week. But his decision to bomb Iran has instead made him a wildcard...

23.06.2025 10

The Age

Rob Harris

How Trump obliterated the best-laid plans of world’s most powerful military alliance

The US president was meant to be the guest of honour in the Netherlands this week. But his decision to bomb Iran has instead made him a wildcard...

23.06.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Chokers no more: For South Africa, the past stayed in the past

Fans rejoiced, embraced and even shed tears. Some of them, greying from years of stress and tension, were wearing original 1992 World Cup shirts....

14.06.2025 7

WA Today

Rob Harris

Chokers no more: For South Africa, the past stayed in the past

Fans rejoiced, embraced and even shed tears. Some of them, greying from years of stress and tension, were wearing original 1992 World Cup shirts....

14.06.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Chokers no more: For South Africa, the past stayed in the past

Fans rejoiced, embraced and even shed tears. Some of them, greying from years of stress and tension, were wearing original 1992 World Cup shirts....

14.06.2025 10

The Age

Rob Harris

Chokers no more: For South Africa, the past stayed in the past

Fans rejoiced, embraced and even shed tears. Some of them, greying from years of stress and tension, were wearing original 1992 World Cup shirts....

14.06.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

This film used to make Austria cringe. Now it brings in $1.8b

Residents used to wince when tourists asked directions to movie locations. Sixty years later, the city is embracing hordes of TikTokers channelling...

08.06.2025 9

WA Today

Rob Harris

This film used to make Austria cringe. Now it brings in $1.8b

Residents used to wince when tourists asked directions to movie locations. Sixty years later, the city is embracing hordes of TikTokers channelling...

08.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

How a cringing Austria came to embrace ‘The Sound of Music’

Residents used to wince when tourists asked directions to movie locations. Sixty years later, the city is embracing hordes of TikTokers channelling...

08.06.2025 30

The Age

Rob Harris

This film used to make Austria cringe. Now it brings in $1.8b

Residents used to wince when tourists asked directions to movie locations. Sixty years later, the city is embracing hordes of TikTokers channelling...

08.06.2025 30

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

David Beckham’s knighthood: a symbol of reinvention and quiet service

The British football icon’s public journey has always followed a particular arc: early acclaim, a fall from grace, and then redemption through...

06.06.2025 9

WA Today

Rob Harris

David Beckham’s knighthood: a symbol of reinvention and quiet service

The British football icon’s public journey has always followed a particular arc: early acclaim, a fall from grace, and then redemption through...

06.06.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

David Beckham’s knighthood: a symbol of reinvention and quiet service

The British football icon’s public journey has always followed a particular arc: early acclaim, a fall from grace, and then redemption through...

06.06.2025 9

The Age

Rob Harris

David Beckham’s knighthood: a symbol of reinvention and quiet service

The British football icon’s public journey has always followed a particular arc: early acclaim, a fall from grace, and then redemption through...

06.06.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

A new Stalin sculpture was just unveiled in Moscow. And we’re asking if Putin wants peace?

As missiles rain down on Ukraine and Donald Trump scratches his head over it all, a new public artwork shows the Russian president is done whispering...

27.05.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

A new Stalin sculpture was just unveiled in Moscow. And we’re asking if Putin wants peace?

As missiles rain down on Ukraine and the US President scratches his head over it all, a new public artwork shows the Russian President is done...

27.05.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris