Stephen Brook

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Kishor Napier-Raman |Stephen Brook

By Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook June 3, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One immutable fundamental of federation relations that founded the Commonwealth of Australia – state-on-state rivalry – was upended recently when Nick Reece, lord mayor of Melbourne, undertook a whistle-stop tour of Sydney ... and liked it.

6 days ago | smh.com.au | Kishor Napier-Raman |Stephen Brook

By Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook June 2, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As the final votes are recounted in Bradfield, and the Coalition parties promise to listen better and to go to therapy after their brief separation, CBD’s eyes are now turned to the latest position up for grabs in the upcoming 48th parliament.

1 week ago | theage.com.au | Stephen Brook |Eliza Sum

By Stephen Brook and Eliza Sum May 30, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WHERE AM I? Where is this majestic tree located?Credit: Chris HopkinsThis majestic 150-year-old Moreton Bay fig tree was an important place for Indigenous people, who would gather there to hear sermons and speeches by community leaders like Sir Douglas Nicholls. It remains significant to this day.

1 week ago | theage.com.au | Stephen Brook |Kishor Napier-Raman

By Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman May 30, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Poor Malcolm Turnbull. While other ex-PMs circle the globe and/or are reformatted in a hologram to dazzle executive women alongside Hillary Clinton, PM29 was reduced to hosting former Labor minister Barry Jones’ book launch at the State Library of Victoria. Well, sort of.

1 week ago | theage.com.au | Stephen Brook |Kishor Napier-Raman

By Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman May 29, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Julia Gillard continues to eclipse her rival former prime ministers. We know, we know, here we go again readers, needlessly turning everything into a contest to feed our addiction to clicks. To which we reply, there is nothing so competitive as a former prime minister on a quest for relevance.