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Barnaby Joyce, living miracle, offers a health plan
Any advice sugar-loving Barnaby Joyce might have on public health should be taken seriously. The man's a living miracle.
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.
Any advice sugar-loving Barnaby Joyce might have on public health should be taken seriously. The man's a living miracle.
"They had taken all my guns, so I couldn't shoot myself, so I poured petrol over myself and walked into a fire".
You'd have to believe Mickey Mouse was the Roadrunner to believe that National Party Ministers hadn't gone gun-shy.
"Australia has been making mistakes about the sort of people we've been letting in for quite a while now," Peter Dutton mused.
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.
From: Office of the Prime Minister
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.
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.
Kevin Rudd has attacked Malcolm Turnbull for embracing a policy that is spookily similar to his own.
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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