Shorten condemns ‘quicksand of name-calling’ in fond farewell
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Political leadership

Shorten condemns ‘quicksand of name-calling’ in fond farewell

Even Opposition Leader Peter Dutton conceded Bill Shorten would have made a great prime minister.

  • byTony Wright

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The remarkable hide of Bridget McKenzie
Political Sketch
Political leadership

The remarkable hide of Bridget McKenzie

Dutton may have a glass jaw,but the same can’t be said of McKenzie,who will not let her own chequered record deter her from her pursuit of the prime minister.

  • byNick Bonyhady
The best of the worst of Bill Shorten’s zingers
Political Sketch
Political leadership

The best of the worst of Bill Shorten’s zingers

Comedian Shaun Micallef,who benefitted from the former Labor leader’s one-liners more than anyone,said “I owe him a great debt.”

  • byNick Bonyhady
Lidia Thorpe’s gammin was Charles Dickens’ gammon. Really,no porkies

Lidia Thorpe’s gammin was Charles Dickens’ gammon. Really,no porkies

Gammin is used by Indigenous Australians to describe fakery. The word,also written as gammon,was used in the same way by Charles Dickens.

  • byTony Wright
Bugged,bombed and burned:The Russian embassy’s turbulent times
Analysis
Russia

Bugged,bombed and burned:The Russian embassy’s turbulent times

The Russian embassy in Canberra has never offered comfort. But the Soviets refused to move in the 1970s. Now the Russians have to stay put.

  • byTony Wright
Wong in full flight on housing attack as Labor,Greens scramble for moral high ground

Wong in full flight on housing attack as Labor,Greens scramble for moral high ground

The foreign minister disposed of the diplomatic gloves as she lashed Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather over his party’s blocking of the government’s signature housing bill.

  • byLisa Visentin
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Miserable fate awaits flag that battled worst Canberra could deliver

Miserable fate awaits flag that battled worst Canberra could deliver

Australia’s bravest flag,ripped by the elements and failed by a mechanical contraption,faces being cut into small pieces and dumped in the garbage.

  • byTony Wright
Rift? What rift? Morrison and Hawke put their bromance on display

Rift? What rift? Morrison and Hawke put their bromance on display

When the clocks struck 2pm in Parliament House on Tuesday,Scott Morrison and Alex Hawke knew all eyes would be trained on them.

  • byMatthew Knott
No really,Dr Lowe,we don’t need more of your advice just now
Opinion
RBA

No really,Dr Lowe,we don’t need more of your advice just now

The Reserve Bank governor says he’s sorry we listened to him and took his advice. We’d prefer to listen to his resignation speech.

  • byTony Wright
The governor-general receives a call from the Palace

The governor-general receives a call from the Palace

The monarch offers the current governor-general a lesson in handling unusual prime ministers.

  • byTony Wright
Captain Morrison refuses to walk the plank

Captain Morrison refuses to walk the plank

The hour-long affair was a tour de force of Morrisonisms,as if the former prime minister felt compelled to trot out his greatest hits.

  • byMichael Koziol