After the Bishop-era, Smith stamps his mark as a model speaker
Nearly two years since his election, Tony Smith is widely judged to run a relatively fair-handed and effective regime.
Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald
Nearly two years since his election, Tony Smith is widely judged to run a relatively fair-handed and effective regime.
You'd be hard-pressed to judge who had the worst job in the nation's capital on Wednesday.
Last week I sauntered to the sandstone loveliness of the University of Melbourne to talk about the coming federal budget.
Australia in danger of falling 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.
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