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Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 2

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 9

WA Today

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Note to Pesutto: Don’t mention the war

John Pesutto might have done himself a favour if he’d acquainted himself with an arch law of the internet or had studied a little political...

12.12.2024 4

The Age

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 4

WA Today

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 6

The Age

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 2

WA Today

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 8

The Age

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 6

WA Today

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 5

The Age

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 5

WA Today

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 4

The Age

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 6

WA Today

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 5

The Age

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

What paralysis of intellect? Australia on the rails

We’d be lacking imagination if the idea of travelling through the night snugged down in a sleeping berth on a night train didn’t attract us as at...

18.10.2024 4

WA Today

Tony Wright

What paralysis of intellect? Australia on the rails

We’d be lacking imagination if the idea of travelling through the night snugged down in a sleeping berth on a night train didn’t attract us as at...

18.10.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

What paralysis of intellect? Australia on the rails

We’d be lacking imagination if the idea of travelling through the night snugged down in a sleeping berth on a night train didn’t attract us as at...

18.10.2024 5

The Age

Tony Wright

What paralysis of intellect? Australia on the rails

We’d be lacking imagination if the idea of travelling through the night snugged down in a sleeping berth on a night train didn’t attract us as at...

18.10.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Meeting the King and Queen? Just relax, by edict of the palace

All you need to know about meeting the King and the Queen: there is no obligatory code of behaviour. Courtesy is all that is required.

15.10.2024 5

WA Today

Tony Wright

Meeting the King and Queen? Just relax, by edict of the palace

15.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Meeting the King and Queen? Just relax, by edict of the palace

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We await the British newspapers’ search for an excuse to foment one of their...

15.10.2024 5

The Age

Tony Wright

Meeting the King and Queen? Just relax, by edict of the palace

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We await the British newspapers’ search for an excuse to foment one of their...

15.10.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

When cars nosed the boundary, blowing their horns in gladness

Like fragments of an old song, unexpected images caught in passing have the power to drag us to places that have rested in the far reaches of our...

27.09.2024 6

The Age

Tony Wright

Farewell to the incomparable Pete, a prankster and activist for the ages

When Pete Steedman blew into Canberra in 1983, the year Bob Hawke’s Labor Party trounced Malcolm Fraser’s Liberals, no one had seen a member of...

06.09.2024 3

WA Today

Tony Wright

Farewell to the incomparable Pete, a prankster and activist for the ages

When Pete Steedman blew into Canberra in 1983, the year Bob Hawke’s Labor Party trounced Malcolm Fraser’s Liberals, no one had seen a member of...

06.09.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Farewell to the incomparable Pete, a prankster and activist for the ages

When Pete Steedman blew into Canberra in 1983, the year Bob Hawke’s Labor Party trounced Malcolm Fraser’s Liberals, no one had seen a member of...

06.09.2024 9

The Age

Tony Wright

Farewell to the incomparable Pete, a prankster and activist for the ages

When Pete Steedman blew into Canberra in 1983, the year Bob Hawke’s Labor Party trounced Malcolm Fraser’s Liberals, no one had seen a member of...

06.09.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Former radio host launches third bid to oust Dan Tehan – with big-name backing

A young independent who caused something of a political sensation when he transformed a western Victorian blue-ribbon Liberal electorate into a...

26.08.2024 6

WA Today

Tony Wright

Former radio host launches third bid to oust Dan Tehan – with big-name backing

A young independent who caused something of a political sensation when he transformed a western Victorian blue-ribbon Liberal electorate into a...

26.08.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Former radio host launches third bid to oust Dan Tehan – with big-name backing

A young independent who caused something of a political sensation when he transformed a western Victorian blue-ribbon Liberal electorate into a...

26.08.2024 4

The Age

Tony Wright

Former radio host launches third bid to oust Dan Tehan – with big-name backing

A young independent who caused something of a political sensation when he transformed a western Victorian blue-ribbon Liberal electorate into a...

26.08.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright