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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Keep on digging, PM, even if the hole's too big
Tony Wright There's nothing quite like a trip to Gallipoli to focus the mind on lost causes.
Surprise reflections in a nation's mirror
Tony Wright IN A week when a small grab bag of historians attempted to puncture some of the mythology surrounding what happened in the hills above Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula 97 years ago, an estimated...
Final day expulsion a lifeline for Gillard
Tony Wright Speaker Peter Slipper may have inadvertently granted the embattled Gillard government a crucial lifeline when he took stern action against a National Party MP on the last day of sittings last month.
MP demanded official investigation into travel expenses
Tony Wright THE LIBERAL MP Alex Somlyay has never made a secret of his loathing for his long-time colleague Peter Slipper, but yesterday he threw away the gloves for good.
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Losers turn on Bligh, who fires a final shot
Tony Wright The blame game was sweeping Qld's Labor Party even before the poll that ripped out its heart.
Labor looks down the barrel after Queensland rout
By Tony Wright and Michelle Grattan Queensland Labor Party begins frantic search for a new leaer after Anna Bligh quits.
Humbled and heartbroken, Bligh quits politics
Tony Wright Anna Bligh has resigned as leader of the Queensland Labor Party and will quit parliament, causing a by-election that will add to the party's dissaray following its huge loss in the state election at...
Beattie to Gillard: 'Buy a house in Queensland'
Tony Wright Julia Gillard, according to former Queensland Premier Beattie, needs to buy a house in Queensland.
Newman walks tall amid Queensland's electoral carnage
Tony Wright Campbell Newman pledged last night his new, overwhelmingly powerful government would conduct itself with humility, grace and dignity.
Silver Bodgie gallops to the aid of a Qld damsel in distress
Tony Wright The leader of the Queensland Liberal National Party, Campbell Newman, is un-Australian and a poor specimen of a bloke, according to former Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
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Bligh raises the white flag in Qld election
Tony Wright No one has seen the like of it: a government conceding defeat - no, a wipeout - before an election.
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Off their Rockefellers in bad-boy Queensland
Tony Wright If you were to judge Queenslanders on the antics of Clive Palmer and Bob Katter, you would have to wonder whether there was something peculiar in the water up north.
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No ifs or batts on the banned wagon
Tony Wright You won't hear the word insulation in the official halls of power these days. It has all but disappeared from the language of government and bureaucracy across the land: a banned word.
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No future in getting behind affront on Costello's ambition
Tony Wright There hasn't been such affront taken since John Howard was cruelly overlooked for the vice-presidency of the International Cricket Council.
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Double, double, toil and trouble: a recipe with a hint of hysteria
Tony Wright Take one pinch of asylum seeker, add a spoonful of smuggled handgun, stir with a good ladling of drive-by shootings and a cupful of border protection, and what have you got?
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Dog days at Defence as Basset Bob snatches the big global bone
Tony Wright Stephen Smith watches aghast as Bob Carr is given the entry card to the world's greatest talkfests.
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This Carr gets a push start in his drive to Canberra
Tony Wright Bob Carr was the only one of The Mates never to have clawed his way to Canberra.
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Speaker in driver's seat as battle of wills leaves 'irrelevant' Gillard speechless
Tony Wright It was tempting to rush out and scan the sky for a blue moon or flying pork.
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Arbib makes a fast getaway
Tony Wright Just when we thought we'd seen everything, a faceless man suddenly showed his face to announce he was disappearing.
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I'm Kevin and I'm here to help Julia
Tony Wright Kevin Rudd took not a single question as he stood before the media to declare he accepted without rancour the Labor caucus's judgment of him, more than two-thirds of which rejected his wild hope of...
