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Mungo MacCallum: Rudd need not apologise for G20

Last week’s G20 meeting was extraordinary, and Kevin Rudd played his part, writes Mungo MacCallum.

Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks

Meaty snippets from the home of government by Richard Farmer.

In the Territory, a coup takes two

The Northern Territory’s Country Liberal Party has divided down the middle. That’s two all. Our Man In Darwin reports.

Brendan Nelson, the Alexander Downer for a new century

For what has been, on the whole, a very successful political party, the Liberal Party has a decidedly mixed record on leadership, writes Charles Richardson.

Sleaze to be found in all sorts of high offices

It had to happen. Overnight a Facebook group has appeared called I won’t be voting for a drunken p-rvert 07, writes Christian Kerr.