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The day after Howard’s End

All eyes last night were on Four Corners, but have we actually learned anything, wonders Christian Kerr.

The quest for Brendan’s earring

Paul Keating says he liked the Liberal leader Brendan Nelson better when “he had the ring in his ear”. Tim Fischer disagrees. “I prefer him without the earring,” the one-time deputy PM said last week. But what is the story of the earring? Christian Kerr finds out.

Slow news, no news

Are our political leaders in their corners, being sponged down by their trainers? The last 72 hours or so haven’t so much been slow news days as no news days.