Tony Walker writes on politics, North America and the Middle East. Tony is the Financial Review's dual-Walkley Award-winning international editor whose foreign postings have included Washington, Beijing and Cairo. He received a Centenary of Federation Award for contributions to Journalism and the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in press gallery journalism.
The cause of constitutional recognition will falter now that what might have been a workable proposal of inserting reference to the "First Peoples" in a preamble to the Constitution has been foreclosed for the time being.
Not least of the Liberal Party problems in this particularly troubled phase in its history is the so-called 'big tent' of the John Howard era has deflated.
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