Picture: Ray Strange Source: The Australian POLICE raided a huge amphetamine operation after months of photographic surveillance. I bet they used their speed cameras. The cameras were clicking in Canberra as Julia Gillard brought in Bob Hawke to give...

Quite the opposite. Peter Costello was a bit like the dorky guy at the school disco who hung around in the corner hoping a girl would ask him to dance. In politics, power is not given away. It must be taken. Keating, the junkyard brawler, knew this...

Ah, life back to normal at last. Think I'll go overseas again and make the most of our high dollar. Rosemary Walters (Letters, February 5) obviously interpreted Tony Abbott's words (''And I think it probably is time to move on from that'', January 27,...

It must be taken. Keating, the junkyard brawler, knew this when he fired his first shot at Bob Hawke’s leadership. He knew he didn’t have the numbers. When Keating said, lying, that he only had “one shot in the locker”, he did so knowing that his one...

The former prime minister was guest of honour last night at a barbecue at The Lodge, where he delivered a pep talk to the Labor caucus. Mr Hawke urged Labor to be aggressively on the front foot and continue delivering sound economic policy in tough times.

Labor MPs at a special meeting - which was missed by about 20 members - that internal splits would be a gift for the Opposition and would distract from the Government's messages. And at a barbecue for her troops at The Lodge last night, Ms Gillard...