Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald
Poor Girt. The most cutting - and possibly most accurate - comment that's been made about the old thing is that Australia is in danger of falling off to sleep while singing the words, which barely anyone knows anyway.
The death of John Clarke has devastated his friend and long-time collaborator Bryan Dawe.
Pauline and James are 15,000 feet above the outback desert, perched in the tiny cockpit of a Jabiru 230-D.
In her years as Governor-General, Quentin Bryce wrote 50 letters a week to Australians from all ranks of life.
If there were a law against insulting and offending the political class, a lot of my mates and acquaintances would be in strife.
It had to be, this portrait, bigger, darker, more vainglorious and yes, more accusatory - almost Cromwellian - than all the others.
Jimmy Breslin changed my life.
Barnaby Joyce long teetered on the edge of being remembered as a clown.
Wacka Williams tends to inspire friendships across political divides. Loyalty, too.
It is easy now, as thousands stream blithely each winter to the ski fields of the Snowy Mountains, to overlook the monumental events of last century on those heights that still affect our daily lives and our industries, and how, in the exploitation of the high country, Australia was transformed, economically and culturally.
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