The would-be assassin, Peter Kocan, dropped his gun and ran. He was soon caught, arrested and entered Australian political lore as our first would-be assassin of a political leader. While the young ...

Arthur Calwell argued migration was essential to national survival. Today, the Coalition says it should depend on how many homes get built, but the economics are far from straightforward.

Last week, a very special event took place in Parliament House. The daughters of Sir Robert Menzies and Arthur Calwell - Heather Henderson and Mary Elizabeth Calwell - came together to reflect on ...

In the lead-up to a federal election, the Labor Opposition leader is shot at point-blank range as he leaves a rowdy public meeting. The bullet, fired from a sawn-off rifle, shatters the window of his ...

Calwell covers 175 sq.km on the north-west fringe of Melbourne, north beyond the Western Ring Road with the Tullamarine Freeway and Airport dividing the electorate in two. East of the airport the ...

There could be no clearer evidence of their subservience to the party machine. Five damaging photographs appeared in Sydney's The Daily Telegraph on Friday, March 22, 1963. In the wake of the December ...

"If the situation was not so tragic it could be hilariously funny. However, if the full facts of that meeting ever hit the press, the FX (federal executive) - the supreme governing body of the party, ...

In the lead-up to a federal election, the Labor Opposition leader is shot at point-blank range as he leaves a rowdy public meeting. The bullet, fired from a sawn-off rifle, shatters the window of his ...