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.
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Wind change forecast by tomorrow's voters
Tony Wright As Australia's business leaders sat down at Canberra's Parliament House this week to discuss, among other things, the Gillard government's promise to outsource environmental controls to the states -...
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A baker's dozen: highlights and lowlights in Australia's political year
Tony Wright With Parliament wrapping up for another year, Tony Wright looks back at 2012 and those key political moments.
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'Bruiser' Abbott is waltzed out of the fight on a TKO
Tony Wright As cage fights go - and this was an event built to the proportions of a massacre in pre-bout publicity - it was a bloodless affair, absent of a knock-out.
No knockout for Bruiser Abbott or Bloodnut Gillard
Tony Wright In the absence of a knock-out, it had to be decided on points, and the challenger, Bruiser Abbott, having talked big before the bout, failed to get the nod. He just couldn't find his killer punch.
RuddBull double act shines on Q&A
Tony Wright Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull agreed: neither will lead their respective parties at the next election.
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Cleavage gives Canberra allure
Tony Wright Ngambri. Now there's a name for Australia's capital city. It means, apparently, 'a woman's cleavage'.
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Watch as we make a continent disappear
Tony Wright If you are to excise a country from its own migration zone, a visa-less soul can't apply for one anywhere.
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Old questions and old visions tarted up to see the political year out
Tony Wright The trick in enduring to the end of the long battle of the 2012 political year is in trying to make the old new again, and the new as stale as last year's bully beef.
The texting finger points to the exit
Tony Wright The Parliament is still digesting it and historians will make a meal of it. But how did it get to this?
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Let's (not) talk about sex
Tony Wright Break out the vanilla sarsaparilla! The word misogyny was barely mentioned in Australia's House of Pain today.
All rise for new head of the House
Tony Wright ANNA BURKE could scarcely have imagined when she entered the federal Parliament in 1998 that 14 years later she would become - in the most extraordinary of circumstances - the second female Speaker...
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The Great Redundancy elevates deputy to the Speaker's hot seat
Tony Wright Anna Burke could scarcely have imagined when she entered the Federal Parliament in 1998 that 14 years later she would become - in the most extraordinary of circumstances - the second female Speaker...
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Slipper moment of clarity closes ghastly spectacle
Tony Wright AND so, a chap who refers to women's private bits as ''shell-less mussels'' was to be allowed to remain Speaker of the House of Representatives, the most powerful job in the chamber, even if he...
What exposes await as Abbott tosses up challenge?
Tony Wright The revelation by Tony Abbott's inner circle of women that his personal inner goddess is alive and well tosses up dreadful challenges for the Australian political class.
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Outback mission scores a century
Tony Wright Way out in the Australian inland, lonely stockmen tend to call any visiting preacher ''padre''. It is a curious term, for it means ''father'' in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, suggesting a...
A break in the rage as grieving PM exposes her heart
Tony Wright THERE is a nakedness to a child of any age confronting the death of a parent. Within the political furnace, it takes courage to expose yourself.
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It was time for a tearful but graceful farewell
Tony Wright There is a nakedness to a child of any age confronting the death of a parent. Within the political furnace, it takes courage to expose yourself.
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They came to praise Abbott, and to praise and praise and praise
Tony Wright Sainthood could hardly be more than a swirl of a cardinal's cassock away for Tony Abbott.
First planeload of asylum seekers for Nauru
Phillip Coorey and Tony Wright The first planeload of asylum seekers is expected to leave Christmas Island for Nauru later today. Sources have told Fairfax the flight, which will carry single men, is scheduled to fly overnight to...
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The voice of God in echoes of Gough
Tony Wright In the unruly year of 1975, I found myself adrift from the craft of journalism, working as a roadie and novice sound-mixer in the rock'n'roll business.
