Tony Wright
Tony Wright is the National Affairs Editor of The Age. He has been based in the Canberra Press Gallery for 20 years, working for The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Bulletin before joining The Age in 2007. He has written two plays and two best-selling books, was named Magazine Feature Writer of the Year twice, has won several UN Media Peace Prizes and has been a Walkley Awards finalist five times.
New white paper will aim at placating China
Tony Wright Australia's new defence strategy, to be unveiled on Friday, is expected to maintain funding at historically low levels while seeking to repair damage to the relationship with China that followed the...
Funding to be kept at record low
Tony Wright Australia's new defence strategy, to be unveiled today, is expected to maintain historically low funding.
What's the Big Idea this time around?
Tony Wright Election years are a wonderful time for Big Ideas. You may, or may not, recall the marvellously named Multifunction Polis.
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Siding with realism confounds fantasy choo-choo
Tony Wright It may be a little early to book reservations aboard Australia's Very Fast Train, and even if you could get one, say for the 50th birthday of your newborn grandchild, you would be best not to put...
Leaders and battle-scarred Negus recall resolve
Tony Wright Australia's political leaders were effusive in their praise for the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher but the veteran television journalist George Negus recalled her as being ''as scary...
First bloke revs up for a charity ride against child slavery
Tony Wright Tim Mathieson is about to climb into the saddle to raise $100,000 to fight child slavery in Cambodia.
PM will struggle when minders lead up a gully
Sketch Tony Wright Among the many black arts practised by political operatives is the ''advance''.
The king of the spivs
Tony Wright Labor politicians across the country are sweating on the NSW corruption hearings.
Fall in teenage binge drinking
Tony Wright Australia's brewers, ramping up their campaign against government-mandated warnings on alcohol products, have seized on the nation's latest and largest survey on teenagers' drinking habits to declare...
Queensland rains on PM's parade as tide of support ebbs and flows
Tony Wright Storms and floods can ruin lives and livelihoods as viciously and unexpectedly as events can swamp political careers.
Honour at last for Balmain boy
Tony Wright ''I'VE been hit with open hands, closed fists, pieces of wood, iron bars and bamboo about two inches in diameter,'' Tom Uren says.
Tom Uren, a man of letters: POW, MP, AC
Tony Wright Tom Uren has taken many hits in life, and he rolled with them all and refused to lie down.
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When life is lived one needle at a time
Tony Wright One hundred kids sat down to a lunch in Parliament's Great Hall on Thursday, only the menu on every table offering a hint there might be a distinction between these and any other children.
In praise of flying beasts of burden
Tony Wright I once flew from Townsville to the troubled and steamy island of Bougainville in a Landcruiser.
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Not exactly a triumph but Camilla passes muster
Tony Wright There was a deal of anxiety at Clarence House, the Prince of Wales' seat in Westminster, about the first visit to Australia by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Camilla calms the courtiers
Tony Wright There was a deal of anxiety at the Prince of Wales' seat in Westminster about the first visit to Australia by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Bondi takes to the heir, with no help from above
Tony Wright Sydney, it turned out, would be a city of all seasons for this royal visit.
Royal suit in the making? I'll drink to that
Tony Wright A BEER in a country pub, a spot of sheep shearing - without the requirement to actually wield the blades - and a long ramble among throngs of well-wishers in a Tasmanian village …
Prince and Duchess pursue their causes, and 'Bertie' pursues them
Tony Wright Charles and Camilla devoted their visit to Melbourne yesterday to matters that consume their hearts.
It all stops for the race, even jet lag
Tony Wright Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, doesn't like flying. It's the jet lag. Why, she joked to those around her, she gets jet lag simply flying to Scotland.
