Tadpoles tangled in tentacles for the tongue twister titles

Tony Wright Cabinet ministers Gary Gray and Craig Emerson will be busier than one-armed fiddlers as they negotiate their gigantic new portfolios.

Labor's tadpoles left to swim in acronym soup

Tony Wright Cabinet ministers Gary Gray and Craig Emerson will be busier than one-armed fiddlers.

PM will struggle when minders lead up a gully

Tony Wright Among the many black arts practised by political operatives is the ''advance''.

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Message by Tony express: you're a disgrace, Abbott!

Tony Wright It was the second anniversary of Julia Gillard's famous promise that no government she led would introduce a carbon tax, and Tony Abbott was not about to let that pass without a celebratory bout of...

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No ifs or batts on the banned wagon

Tony Wright You won't hear the word insulation in the official halls of power these days. It has all but disappeared from the language of government and bureaucracy across the land: a banned word.

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Time for a bit of selective recall

Tony Wright It ought to take no more than a morning and lunch for Labor's review committee to work out what went wrong in the election campaign, but memories can play tricks.

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Hardest task is put on ice

Tony Wright As a science show exposes the fragility of the frozen continent's ecosystem, the Prime Minister's own policy fragility is laid bare.

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CPR(S) failed, patient died - but photo op worked a treat

Tony Wright Doctor Kevin Rudd was doing his familiar round of the wards when he found himself in Blacktown Hospital's emergency department in Sydney yesterday, forced to watch an attempt to revive an ersatz...

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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.