Federal Politics

Tony Wright

Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald

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When the power goes out, so does civil society

You don't need to be one of those wild-eyed doomsday preppers who bury steel containers in their backyards and fill them with canned food to recognise we're a stalled power plant away from chaos.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is ready to return to Australia at a moment's notice.

Malcolm and the Barnaby and Tony Emergency Express

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.

The US China is preparing new sanctions on Chinese companies with ties to North Korea.

Why would North Korea's little tyrant lob a missile on Darwin?

​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.