David Marr
Disbelieving fans put faith in the lord
David Marr What an Australian scene - a scrubbed, white crowd hanging off a viscount's every word. Rank was everything at the Press Club.
A dream Labor speech from the vanquished
David Marr Under the Flag: FIFTEEN words in we knew what sort of speech this would be. "Generations" is a great big Malcolm Turnbull word. Churchillian.
Silent sound of air sucked out of the debate
David Marr IN THE dog-eat-dog world of amateur debating, those who trash their own convictions score top marks.
Cruising before a bruising: Abbott pumped up for title fight
David Marr As the Speaker began to pray, Tony Abbott's eyes raked the galleries. A fair crowd had turned out for the most promoted stoush since Danny Green faced the once-great Roy Jones jnr for the...
Laughter sounds the dog whistle for a silky terrier
David Marr The Australian National Kennel Council (Mission Statement: "To promote excellence in breeding, showing, trialling, obedience and other canine related activities...
Indifferent land keeps desperate people waiting
David Marr "No matter how much I shook her she did not wake up." Eight years ago this weekend Ali Reza Irfani returned to his room in the makeshift detention centre on Christmas Island to find his wife had...
Raised from the ashes
David Marr The body was not cold when we laid out page one. The state funeral was still days away. What we did would be condemned as disgraceful, despicable, gutter journalism and utter bad taste.
Rudd's policy belies the brutal honesty of Christmas Island's names
David Marr Christmas Island is a place of brutally honest names. Above the settlement on a mountain of petrified bird shit called Phosphate Hill is a cluster of tin huts that once housed construction workers.
