The unsealing of confidential state government documents this week has given greater insight into Labor’s response to the ...

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A scathing security review of Geelong Gaol almost a decade before the prison shut its doors found the prison to be an ...

Ministers have privately raised the prospect of the new technology being issued to children at birth alongside the 'red book' ...

Previously-secret Howard government cabinet papers reveal top-level ministers advised against sending troops to the ...

Discover how secret cabinet records highlighted warnings on Islamist radicalisation two decades before the Bondi attack.

Today we learn a little more about what John Howard's government faced in 2005 ... with the annual release of hundreds of ...

Hundreds of formerly sealed cabinet documents have been revealed after 20 years, revealing what went on among John Howard and ...

The ill-fated WorkChoices policy was developed in the context of a widely held belief the government was being “undermined”, ...

Secret cabinet papers have ­exposed a multimillion-dollar black hole in Melbourne’s failed bid for the 1996 Olympics, which ...

The former Labor government of John Cain and Joan Kirner hid the dire financial position of the government-owned State Bank of Victoria – including liabilities of billions of dollars – from the public ...