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Cabinet papers

March 2024

  • Then prime minister John Howard meets Australian troops in Iraq in 2005

    Cabinet papers from Iraq war period show Howard government saw access to Middle East oil as a key national interest

    Newly released documents also reveal worries that reducing troop levels in Iraq would squander ‘the benefits’ to US-Australia alliance

January 2024

  • Anthony Albanese

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    ‘Australians do have a right to know’: Albanese says Iraq war documents should be released

    Prime minister orders independent investigation into Scott Morrison’s government’s failure to transfer all documents

31 December 2023

  • John Howard in a helmet and body armour

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    Greens demand full release of government documents on ‘disastrous’ decision to join Iraq invasion

  • Silhouette of Scott Morrison

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archives

  • Anti war protesters in Sydney

    Australia went to war in Iraq based on ‘oral reports’ to cabinet from John Howard

  • Philip Ruddock (left) and and Alexander Downer (right)

    Howard government worked with Canada to oppose UN declaration on Indigenous rights

  • Funding the 12-metre platypus, and other decisions that troubled the Howard government

  • Sliding doors: cabinet papers reveal how close Coalition came to endorsing emissions trading in 2003

31 December 2022

  • The lush green shoreline on Christmas Island. The Australian government withdrew its support for a spaceport on the island that utilised Russian technology in 2009.

    Russia-backed spaceport proposed for Christmas Island abandoned in 2002 over sovereignty fears

    Cabinet papers reveal Russia wanted to limit Australia’s access to its rocket technology and classified information, leading to ‘impasse’
  • Prime minister John Howard flanked by military top brass in 2002, a year of heightened security concerns.

    Country of fear: Australia of 2002 was preoccupied with national security

    Cabinet papers 2002: even before the Bali attacks, the Howard government passed sweeping anti-terrorism laws in response to 9/11

    • John Howard overrode George Pell’s objections to allow research using surplus IVF embryos

    • Howard ministers considered extinguishing native title over SA site earmarked for nuclear waste dump

    • John Howard’s government considered letting offshore detainees into Australia in 2002

31 December 2021

  • Composite image of John Howard and MS Tampa

    ‘It stopped the boats’: John Howard on Tampa, Siev X and the Pacific solution

    With the release of the 2001 cabinet papers, the former prime minister remains unapologetic about his tough policies on asylum seekers
  • Ansett planes

    HIH and Ansett: how the Howard government was forced to act over giant corporate collapses

    Airline’s fall was nation’s largest mass job loss and insurer’s demise most expensive in Australian history

    • John Howard and the ABC: desire for cuts came up against Liberal support for broadcaster

    • Where ‘mutual obligation’ began: John Howard’s paradigm shift on welfare

    • Before Australia’s climate wars: when a Coalition cabinet leaned towards positive action

December 2020

  • The Olympic flag enters the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Sydney Games on 15 September 2000

    Australia's security fears in 2000 focused on hostage taking at Sydney Olympics, cabinet papers show

  • Prime minister John Howard

    John Howard 2000 cabinet papers: climate wars and the conservative re-engineering of Australia

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