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Ministers leaving for personal reasons: PM

Scott Morrison says characterising ministerial resignations as rats leaving a sinking ship is offensive, despite the coalition struggling in opinion polls. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has bristled at suggestions an exodus of coalition frontbenchers ahead

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Olympics, Return them to Greece

Holding the games in a different country every four years invites chaos, corruption, and redundant infrastructure. The great Australian journalist Murray Sayle famously said there were only two newspaper stories: “we name the guilty man”

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Orban raises prospectof EU exit, citing Brussels’ authoritarian drift

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has once again raised the prospect of a Hungarian exit from the European Union, suggesting that the bloc’s authoritarian evolution may soon outweigh the benefits of membership. Speaking in an interview with the far-right platform Ultrahang, Orban said that Hungary’s EU membership “still makes sense

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VLADAMIRE PUTIN

How Putin rebuilt Russia into a global power

Many wonder how the Russian economy manages to stay afloat under numerous sanctions, maintain low debt levels, and even outperform the West in certain production sectors. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow—a once-great

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