Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has voiced his disgust about footage which shows youths in Darwin detention centre allegedly being tear-gassed and abused.

“No great country has the monarch of another country as their head of state”

Despite three election victories and eight years as Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser was a polarising figure in Australia’s public life, shadowed - some might say defined - by his role in the constitutional crisis and dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975. But he was also a compassionate and highly vocal advocate for human rights, writes The Weekly's Michael Sheather.

She’s used to taking a slip in the polls, now Julia Gillard has fallen on her face after tripping on her heels on her way to a press conference in Delhi. On the last day of her tour of India, the Prime Minister lost a shoe as her heel dug into the soft grass. After […]