President Trump: the day America became The Jerry Springer Show
This is a sad and pathetic day. A man so thick he believes he can play global politics with the likes of Vladimir Putin and skip free is plain dangerous.
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Tony Wright
Tony Wright is the National Affairs Editor of The Age. He has been based in the Canberra Press Gallery for 20 years, working for The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Bulletin before joining The Age in 2007. He has written two plays and two best-selling books, was named Magazine Feature Writer of the Year twice, has won several UN Media Peace Prizes and has been a Walkley Awards finalist five times.
Poor Malcolm Turnbull begs Gillian Triggs to protect his human rights
From: Office of the Prime Minister
Why on earth do Americans vote on a Tuesday?
Of all the strange things about the US election - and strange barely begins to describe the current madness - the idea of voting on a Tuesday remains distinctly odd.
Rocket science, lunacy and plain weirdness engulf Parliament
There was a fair bit of weird rocket science around Parliament on Monday, and not all of it had to do with a visit by the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin.
Rudd serves up steaming hypocrisy over Turnbull's asylum policy
Kevin Rudd has attacked Malcolm Turnbull for embracing a policy that is spookily similar to his own.
Legal bid to force release of Kerr's Palace letters
A court is being asked for access to the final piece of one of the most intriguing puzzles of modern history: what did the Queen know, and when?
From Gordon Barton to Pauline Hanson: the rise of political outsiders
Gordon Barton set in motion what could reasonably be described as Australia's first truly independent political party of the modern era.
It's nice to be popular: Tony Abbott's back in from the cold
He looked as relieved as a schoolkid who's been excluded from the cool bunch for months...and out of the blue, someone offers to share sandwiches at lunch, or maybe a smoke behind the shelter shed.
Old MPs try to pull the other one
If you got 10 free flights a year, an annual pension of somewhere between $80,000 and $120,000, plus large bonuses if you happened to be have been anything but a bog-standard backbencher, you'd reckon you'd take your good fortune to a sun-kissed beach somewhere and giggle crazily as you waddled in your board shorts all the way to the nearest ATM and back.
What price a legal battle at these giddy heights? A swirl of silk
Great Leaping Litigants! Imagine the fees. Two Queens Counsel and a Senior Counsel locked in furious dissent.
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