Payman v Albanese and the personal v the collective:Is Labor stuck in 1902?

Payman v Albanese and the personal v the collective:Is Labor stuck in 1902?

The personal view of a young Muslim senator faces off with the oldest requirement of would-be ALP politicians,a written contract to observe the collective.

  • byTony Wright
Riding chill streets,listening for the lessons of Zen on a motorcycle
Perspective
World politics

Riding chill streets,listening for the lessons of Zen on a motorcycle

The first rule of riding a motorcycle is look where you want to go. Could it be a metaphor for life?

  • byTony Wright
The jury reaches verdicts,plural. Gregory Lynn is a murderer,singular

The jury reaches verdicts,plural. Gregory Lynn is a murderer,singular

Four years of investigation into a ghastly mystery,five weeks of trial and almost seven days of jury deliberations brought us to an ear-popping climax.

  • byTony Wright
The rich used to send it their sewage,now this suburb is an oasis of creatives

The rich used to send it their sewage,now this suburb is an oasis of creatives

Once a place where the poorest endured toxic run-off from Melbourne’s wealthy,Collingwood is reaching for an affluent,sustainable future. It’s not all smooth going.

  • byTony Wright
Aunty Fay Carter learned life’s truths from her Nanny in a tin hut
Perspective
Indigenous

Aunty Fay Carter learned life’s truths from her Nanny in a tin hut

For decades,Fay Carter campaigned for social justice for Aboriginal people. Her work was grounded by her experience living with her grandmother and 19 other children in a shack beside the Goulburn River.

  • byTony Wright
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A dreamlike quality to the evidence of a nightmare
Perspective
Courts

A dreamlike quality to the evidence of a nightmare

The trial of Gregory Lynn for the alleged murder of an elderly pair of campers wends to its end,with Lynn giving his own version of events from the witness box.

  • byTony Wright
Secret planning,treacherous training and the clouds of gliders launched against the Nazis
Perspective
World War II

Secret planning,treacherous training and the clouds of gliders launched against the Nazis

Gippsland-born Frank Bladin became Air Vice-Marshal of the RAAF. Eighty years ago,he played a crucial role in the D-Day airborne landings on Normandy,France.

  • byTony Wright
Police found a phone in the mud. Now they hope for a breakthrough in the Samantha Murphy search

Police found a phone in the mud. Now they hope for a breakthrough in the Samantha Murphy search

The first physical clue to the missing Ballarat mother’s fate has emerged. Police are investigating whether it contains data that might give them answers.

  • byTony Wright
A rude awakening in the city of light
Tony Wright’s Column
Olympics

A rude awakening in the city of light

The French,as everyone knows,do things differently. Including,it would seem,their security alerts for the Paris Olympics.

  • byTony Wright
The Yachties,cruelly overlooked but now not forgotten
Perspective
World War II

The Yachties,cruelly overlooked but now not forgotten

Few of us know that hundreds of Australians fought and suffered in the British Royal Navy in World War II,only to be largely left out of their nation’s war history – until now.

  • byTony Wright