Greens demand full release of government documents on ‘disastrous’ decision to join Iraq invasion
Nick McKim says national security committee documents used to justify the war may answer questions about momentous foreign policy decision
Australia went to war in Iraq based on ‘oral reports’ to cabinet from John Howard
Cabinet papers from 2003 show there was no formal submission before decision was taken to join US-led ‘coalition of the willing’
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
November 2023
Temperature Check
What does a Jordan Peterson conference say about the future of climate change? Apparently we’re headed towards ‘human flourishing’
Graham Readfearn
Attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship were treated to a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points from some speakers that ignored the risks of climate change
John Howard: 'Multiculturalism is a concept that I've always had a bit of trouble with' – video
'We try too hard to institutionalise difference rather than celebrate what we have in common,' the former Liberal prime minister says
John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism
Former Australian prime minister tells rightwing conference that immigrants should ‘adopt the values and practices’ of their new country
October 2023
Paul Keating says voice referendum was ‘wrong fight’ and has ‘ruined the game’ for a treaty
Exclusive: Former PM accuses John Howard and Tony Abbott of ‘outrageously and wilfully misinterpreting’ result in attempt to return to ‘great assimilation project’
September 2023
‘It’s bunkum’: former Liberal party director and John Howard chief of staff dismisses no campaign arguments
Tony Nutt says the voice to parliament is just, practical and constitutionally safe, a view at odds with the former leader he served for a decade
August 2023
Yes campaign for voice to parliament will ‘maintain the love’, Noel Pearson says
Indigenous leader says yes camp’s message is one of ‘optimism’ in response to former PM John Howard’s call for no campaign to ‘maintain the rage’
June 2023
Howard and Abbott seek the meaning of life. What if our true purpose is … saving the planet
Paul Daley
Two former PMs among several Australian conservatives are linked to Jordan Peterson-fronted Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which is concerned with ‘issues metaphysical, cultural and practical’
