PM lights up backbench with savage attack on 'parasite' Shorten
As he unloaded on the nearest target, Malcolm Turnbull's colleagues couldn't get enough of him.
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.
As he unloaded on the nearest target, Malcolm Turnbull's colleagues couldn't get enough of him.
A pall settled across Parliament House. MPs might come and go, but the Gold Card was supposed to go on forever.
The altitudinous Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi, who fears a move towards bestiality if the 21st century is allowed to have its head, is striking out alone, seeking like-minded companions - a space he has inhabited for his entire political career.
It's been a challenging week for the Prime Minister – will the humiliations ever end?
More than 1200 square kilometres around Shelburne Bay near the tip of Cape York Peninsula, including the only untouched area of pure-white sand dunes in Australia, has been handed back to the Wuthathi Indigenous people
It was the year a freshly recycled Liberal leader, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, took his Coalition to an election and suffered a near fatal gutser. Herewith are some of the awards for achievements – both above and mostly below the call of political duty in 2016.
Most weekends I flee the big city and drive for hours through country districts, streaming through forests, across wide plains and alongside coastal scrub, soothing my way back to where I came from long ago.
As a protest, it was pretty lame, if loud and, for the demonstrators, satisfyingly disruptive.
This shambles was perfectly predictable and it makes you wonder about the quality of smarts in the government.
Forget the quaint view that the Senate is a retirement home for fogeys.
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