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from politicoz ….

In recent years there has been no shortage of Labor Party figures decrying what has happened to the party.

Rupert Murdoch faces calls to hand police all his personal emails to senior News International executives amid claims his media empire paid a serving member of the US forces for a photo of Saddam Hussein.

Cronyism and corruption have lived so long amongst humans that it is fair to say they preceded The Bible, where many precedents are recorded.

a question of character ….

My mouth fell open when I heard Abbott’s final flourish in Thursday’s speech denouncing Gillard as unfit for office. I remembered, suddenly, vividly, Tony Abbott’s very own slush fund. Could he too have forgotten?

Thousands of Islamists have rallied in support of president Mohamed Morsi's newly expanded powers and the drafting of a contested charter, in a clear show of Egypt's widening polarisation.

To discuss “free trade agreements” or the “free market,” we must first identify the theoretical versus the functional definitions of these terms – because theoretical definitions look at what those terms should mean, whereas functional definitions look at what the terms mean actually.

Extreme heat waves, declining food stocks, and a life-threatening sea level rise: it's a sobering vision of the future by one of the world's largest and most powerful institutions.

A report issued by the World Bank earlier this month warns of severe consequences if global warming is not dealt with. But the international organisation may itself be contributing to climate change.

In this Parliament it always comes back to honesty and character.

The Deputy Leader of the Opposition wanted to spend this week as a starring character in an investigative drama. She's ended up as the winning candidate on Red Faces,'' Julia Gillard said on Wednesday.

A supermassive black hole, 4,000 times larger than the one at the centre of the Milky Way, has been spotted by astronomers.