Malcolm Turnbull today refused to deny rumours that former Liberal prime minister Harold Holt was a Chinese agent, in a speech that offered fulsome praise for China’s one-party development model.
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Rudd navigates the thicket of early election timing
Rudd is a natural conservative, a low-risk player, and early elections are a risky strategy. If Rudd decides that the advantages of boosting the minor party strength in the Senate outweigh the disadvantages, he can do it.
Della Bosca joins long list of upstanding members
Politicians straying from the marital bed? Where’s the story? asks Bob Ellis.
Lessons in History: Disappearing politicians
Those holding civic office have had a distinct tendency to wander off into parts unknown. Does power drive a man (or woman) into the yonder? History writer Mike Stutchbery investigates.
All the conspiracy theories are true!
Political Analysts from the First Dog On The Moon Institute can prove it!
Doug Anthony’s mean spirited attack on the dead
In today’s Australian Bishop Tom Frame has comprehensively dismantled the wholly mean spirited claim by Doug Anthony that Harold Holt’s death might have been at his own hand and not by misadventure, writes Jeff Wall.
The gathering darkness behind Holt’s sunny smile
Harold Holt was clearly a deeply troubled man when he entered those choppy waters off Cheviot Beach on 17 November 1967, never to return. But was he troubled enough to take his own life, or did he simply not care any more? asks Norman Abjorensen.
