Australia’s politics can lead to thrills. But that’s about it.
Australia’s leadership politics allow for some excitement, like the coup against Tony Abbott. But their system isn’t a cure for what ails ours.
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Tony Abbott
Newsmaker: Tony Abbott, Australia’s control freak
Why Stephen Harper has nothing on Australia’s prime minister, who has demanded no front-bencher venture onto a popular interview show
Newsmaker of the Day: Tony Abbott—and beer
Gone in six seconds. The Australian PM can sure down a beer.
Australian adventures in parliamentary democracy
Checking in on our parliamentary cousins
Frank talk: The politics and policy of pricing carbon
Is pricing carbon the future or the past?
Team Carbon Price
Barack Obama explains his support for pricing carbon
Climate change: Prime Minister Frank Harper and the alliance of what?
What are we going to do about climate change?
This week’s top newsmakers
The kid who outsmarted the World Trade Centre’s security system, and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for their sartorial authority
Australian GG suggests the country should become a republic
Representative of the Queen suggests break from British Monarchy