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The living ghosts of 1945 haunt Asia's rival powers

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imageJapan's neighbours will interpret whatever Shinzo Abe says about his nation's wartime aggression in the light of his government's shift to more hawkish policies.Reuters/Toru Hana

Following the devastation of twin atomic attacks, Japan announced its unconditional surrender to the Allied forces on August 15, 1945. Seventy years on from that momentous...

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Grattan on Friday: Royal Commissioner finds it is not just witnesses that can have a credibility problem

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imageCommissioner Dyson Heydon during a hearing of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption in Sydney.Jeremy Piper/AAP

Bill Shorten must have been born under some particularly fortunate star.

In yet another week when “good government” was holidaying, the Coalition prolonged its agony over same-sex marriage, and royal...

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