Trumbull: Is there any greater insult for the PM?
It's been a challenging week for the Prime Minister – will the humiliations ever end?
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Tony Wright
Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald
Drawing a line in the whitest of sand
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
The highlights, lowlights and lowlifes of Parliament 2016
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.
Rotten fruit: Australia's politicians fail those who feed the cities
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.
Superglue? Screaming? Call that a protest?
As a protest, it was pretty lame, if loud and, for the demonstrators, satisfyingly disruptive.
Counting your chickens a poor idea when they're headless chooks
This shambles was perfectly predictable and it makes you wonder about the quality of smarts in the government.
The Senate: Hinch finds it's no place for sensitive old men
Forget the quaint view that the Senate is a retirement home for fogeys.
Diversity in One Nation, where views collide
One Nation is a very democratic party. So democratic, indeed, that its parliamentarians apparently don't discuss with each other what the party's stance might be on legislation, and then publicly disagree..
'The ABC is letting Australia down': Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating is the latest public figure to lay into the besieged ABC, saying it it is failing as a news gathering organisation and was letting Australia down.
Pauline Hanson declares she's over her tolerance, but she's no racist
"I am fed up with people... calling me a racist when they cannot find one thing that I have said that is racist."
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