Sketch
Michael Leunig, master of weaponised whimsy, found community in aloneness
For 55 years, Michael Leunig’s illustrations helped make sense of a sometimes crazy world. Now he is gone.
- by Karl Quinn
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Political Sketch
Lidia Thorpe
It’s always been risky to bellow from the press gallery, Lidia
The last time anyone shouted from the press gallery, an abject apology was required to save the offender from trial by parliament. What now for Lidia Thorpe?
- by Tony Wright
Political sketch
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.
- by Tony Wright
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.
- by Nick Bonyhady
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.”
- by Nick Bonyhady
Opinion
Lidia Thorpe
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.
- by Tony Wright
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.
- by Tony Wright
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.
- by Lisa Visentin
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.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Scott Morrison
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.
- by Matthew Knott
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.
- by Tony Wright
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