Crean and punishment: from minister to sacrificial goat

Tony Wright Simon Crean believed the Labor Party needed something approaching a bomb to blow a hole in its thin facade as a competitive political outfit.

Fifty minutes of rolled-gold high dudgeon

Tony Wright Theemergency lights start flashing in the Prime Minister's office long before dawn.

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G. Rudd relies on divine intervention

Tony Wright Greg Rudd announced this week he was seeking a Senate seat. Given that Queensland Senate seats are generally sewn up tighter than a Mormon's undergarments by Labor and the Liberal National Party, an...

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Pyne channels Cromwell to ratchet up rhetoric

Tony Wright Too much posturing is never enough for some who strut the boards of Australia's House of Representatives.

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Double, double, toil and trouble: a recipe with a hint of hysteria

Tony Wright Take one pinch of asylum seeker, add a spoonful of smuggled handgun, stir with a good ladling of drive-by shootings and a cupful of border protection, and what have you got?

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All gloss and guff, no glory

Tony Wright An apocryphal tale of K-Rudd's genealogy reflects a Zeitgeist of spin where a disenchanted public is so over polly-speak it is opting for the Don Key vote.

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Tanner's Montana shot misses the mark, but Minchin's militia hits home with friendly fire

Tony Wright The folk of Hardin, Big Horn County, in the backwoods of Montana, are a bit puzzled about Lindsay Tanner.