A sign along the Kokoda Track, a sacred military site in Papua New Guinea, has long been etched with the word “mateship” but it has now been changed to “friendship”, causing fury among Australian war ...

Mateship is an intrinsic part of Australian society, routinely discussed as an important national value. In 1999, Prime Minister John Howard even attempted to include mateship in the constitutional ...

In recent weeks, the Australian government has invested significant commemorative capital to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Hamel on the Western Front in World War I in July 1918.

His Holiness said the Aussie concept of mateship really spoke of love between friends. That's all well and good, but JPII never met my mates. They have a very different concept of mateship. Not an ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Tony Abbott was desperate to paint his just-completed trip to Papua New Guinea in highly positive terms but as far as asylum ...

If you had to choose the single most awful thing about John Howard as displayed during the long, unpleasant years of his prime ministerships, what would it be? Yes, I know the selection is ...

Real mateship is not suited to the times in modern Australia, writes Don Watson. FROM the experience of Australian men at war and otherwise in extremis, the creed of mateship took on a sacred quality ...

MELBOURNE—The civil war that seems to have broken out among some members of the Australian tennis community is disappointing on many levels—not least because it flies in the face of a tradition that ...

More details are emerging of the Australian government’s thinking on how to handle a volatile and erratic Trump White House, and how it might repair some of the damage following the now infamous ...

Poor old Poms. Record numbers of us are desperate to emigrate to Australia but now John Howard, the prime minister, has slammed the door shut on a tantalising life of beach barbecues and cold beer.