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?
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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.
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.
Shorten tours his own mini-plebiscite on marriage equality
Bill Shorten, who declares himself opposed to Malcolm Turnbull's plebiscite on gay marriage because of its potential to cause social torment and because of its price tag, is having his own mini-plebiscite on the matter.
Stephen Conroy: the Right's man of political intrigue
The whiff of political intrigue has rarely been distant from senator Stephen Conroy.
The new outsiders: A Dark Age descends
Thursdays, a small bunch of us hunched our shoulders and shuffled down the corridor to an empty classroom that seemed a long way from everywhere.
By walking out, the Greens gave Hanson what she craves
The truth is, Australia is in danger of being swamped by mindlessness if the likes of Pauline Hanson are to be treated seriously.
If seven days of this stuff makes one weak, imagine a year of it ...
Malcolm Turnbull celebrates (if that is the correct word) his one-year anniversary as Prime Minister on Wednesday. Rather than looking back, here's a look into our crystal ball to foresee his second year.
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