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Tony Wright

Tony Wright

Tony Wright is the associate editor and special writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Erin Patterson was seen twisting a tissue round and round in her hands during Monday’s plea hearing.

Erin Patterson’s children hover offstage, haunted by her crimes

The poisoner’s two children have been granted the small mercy of remaining physically absent from the courtroom tumult.

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Ross Sayers (left, in sluch hat) in 1943; Sayers (right) in 1944; and Ronald Jones (bottom right).

How Anzacs became the forgotten heroes of a Balkans war

A handful of escaped Australian soldiers found themselves in the centre of a civil war in Europe. A new book relives the extraordinary exploits of these Anzac guerillas.

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Does Anthony Albanese (right) really want to follow Donald Trump’s lead on defence spending?

Pistol and Boo should have disguised themselves as (maybe mad) cows

Australia’s strict quarantine authorities famously booted out the movie star dogs. A few years later they are overturning a ban on US beef. We’re truly living in Trumpworld now.

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Japan Airlines’ business class: Tony Wright found a deal through a travel agent for less than half the price of other carriers.

Frustration over a Qantas upgrade changed the way I travel

In 50 years of globetrotting, I’d always planned my travels myself. But that’s changed since I met Amanda.

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Labor MPs (red) in the House of Representatives now stretch across the aisle, while the Coalition (blue) are a hugely reduced opposition.

Question time returns, but you wouldn’t look here for answers

The inevitable dull roar from opposition benches signalled question time was back. Emphasis on dull. And roar? An exaggeration.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Sussan Ley.

Political enemies join parliament’s first-day love-in. Day two will be a different story

For just one day, love and homage to democracy were the central rituals as the 48th parliament opened.

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Member for Dickson Ali France who defeated Peter Dutton and Member for Melbourne Sarah Witty who defeated Adam Bandt at the last election.

‘His courage was with me’: How Ali France’s late son’s words propelled her to parliament

The new MP who defeated Peter Dutton said her son Henry had told her not to make his passing an “excuse for you not doing important things”.

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Best-selling crime writer Chris Hammer at lunch at The Graham Hotel, Port Melbourne.

The River: Chris Hammer, crime writer, returns to the source

The author of Scrublands is among Australia’s top crime writers. But his fiction may never have emerged without his early non-fiction. And a jolt from the man who would become the celebrated master of crime novels, Peter Temple.

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The Need for Feed convey arrives in Camperdown.

The trucks hauling the generosity of strangers into a green drought

Western Victoria’s drought has turned green. It’s nature’s cruel hoax, and so the big trucks roll, trying to hold back despair across the farming lands.

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Brie Larson as thwarted chemist Elizabeth Zott in Apple TV’s take on Lessons in Chemistry.

The curious case of a literary recipe for murder by mushroom

A year before Erin Patterson was found guilty of murder, a fictional book was published proposing a recipe for killing loved ones with death cap mushrooms.

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