Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald
An anxiety-burdened Malcolm Turnbull has ordered a supersonic private jet to remain on standby at Hamburg airport during his visit to Germany for the G20, its motors running and its pilots on 24-hour alert.
​Pity Darwin. Bombed by the Japanese in World War II, blown away by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Eve, 1974, and forever harassed, according to its local newspaper, by person-eating crocodiles, it now has to be concerned about a missile-obsessed Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
Those familiar with the Gospels might recall that Peter also denied knowing his leader thrice.
An expatriate journalist living in Britain wrote an apocalyptic tract this week, published by Fairfax Media, warning fellow Australian travellers not to take a holiday in London.
A prime minister delivers a light-hearted - even hilarious - speech to more than 600 frocked-up and tuxedoed guests in the Great Hall of Parliament House.
It's a rare day when both a prime minister and an opposition leader shower accolades upon a journalist.
Think of the ozone hole and you might get a preview of the humiliation awaiting the current champions of coal-fired energy.
Antony Green awarded an AO for "distinguished service to the broadcast media as an analyst and commentator for state and federal elections".
The nation has managed to survive assaults by terrorists of all shades over many decades.
Donald J. Trump sits in the Oval Office staring at a television sagging from the wall, its screen peppered with bullet holes.
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