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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Australia's ambassador to the United States, Joe Hockey, says the choice of 15 white men as patrons of a campaign to support strong bilateral relations "should be fixed". Mr Hockey posted on Twitter, ...

Some things get easier with age. The intensity of my friendships and the emotionally sharing nature of them has deepened I keep hearing it from men and women in my orbit: too many men in their lives ...