Day: June 8, 2025
Former House speaker and Clinton antagonist sidesteps his own dubious ethics and gushes over Donald Trump
Over 280 pages, Newt Gingrich, House speaker turned Republican presidential hopeful turned prolific author of historical (and critics would say political) fantasy, goes all out to flatter the man in the Oval Office.
“President Trump’s reelection was the triumph of a man and a movement,” Gingrich writes. “Each needed the other if America was to be saved.”
Trump’s Triumph is published in the US by Hachette
The longtime ABC radio host joins Scott Morrison, movie-makers Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin and former Women’s Weekly editor Deborah Hutton among award recipients
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The broadcasting luminary Phillip Adams has been appointed a companion of the Order of Australia on the King’s birthday honours roll, where he is joined by the former prime minister Scott Morrison and film-making couple Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin.
Adams was made a member of the order in 1987, then an officer in 1992. At the age of 85, he can now add the suffix AC – denoting Australia’s highest civilian honour – to his name.
