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.

Praying for light to be shed on the unbelievers?

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St Kevin took the winding road but a pilgrim's progress is rarely smooth

Tony Wright An icy, windy pathway wends across the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. St Kevin's Way, it's called.

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And Julia said. . .

Tony Wright 'The real Julia'? Tony Wright disects the PM's comments to see what she really means.

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Run on baseball bats as Labor descends into viciousness

Tony Wright Just before boarding his jet, Rudd employed his dirtiest tactic. 'People power' he cried.

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Smart bomb crosses continents for a direct hit

Tony Wright It was the most audacious stealth attack in modern Australian political history.

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Julia and the two Kevins locked in a Mexican standoff

Tony Wright Which of the three amigos will pull the trigger first in the government's Mexican standoff?

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The old boy who learnt to love that tough old school

Tony Wright IF TIME salves all wounds, it appears to have performed a miraculous healing in the personal story of Kevin Rudd, a man in a hurry for political redemption.

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Pyne channels Cromwell to ratchet up rhetoric

Tony Wright Too much posturing is never enough for some who strut the boards of Australia's House of Representatives.

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Welcome to the House of fun with all the muck that's fit to rake

Tony Wright All you need to know about the state of affairs in Canberra is that question time was interrupted yesterday by a debate about the difference between ''muck'' and ''muckraking''.

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Dream of islands in the sun where the odd coup is done

Tony Wright The dreamy islands of the Maldives, are rarely the subject of parliamentary discourse in Australia.

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Find a Deep Throat and this could be colossal

Tony Wright The Lobby Restaurant Australia Day Massacree eclipses the biggest scandal in Western politics.

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Slipper blows the whistle on sparring match

Tony Wright One of the more curious rituals in the sport of boxing is that the referee wears a bow tie. It is supposed to offer a certain gentility to what essentially is a blood sport; a bit like calling it...

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Daylight robery as grand new Speaker sinks the slipper

Tony Wright The Honourable Peter Slipper seemed awfully keen to impress as he swept to the majesty of his new throne as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Psychology pops up as Brown decries PM critics as sexist

Tony Wright Bob Brown is apparently hyper-sensitive to the 'subconscious' sexism aimed at the PM.

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Sport doesn't get more epic than six hours on court

Tony Wright For this armchair viewer, it was a classic, less mere tennis than extended drama.

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A pokies trial in the ACT is bordering on the futile

Tony Wright There are two good reasons why you wouldn't want to rely on the results of the PM's trial.

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Swan thong barely enough to cover the cracks

Tony Wright Poor Wayne. What he'd give for a pair of smug Tony Abbott's budgie smugglers now.

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The best entitlement of all - for a man who knows the system

Tony Wright He is considered by political watchers to be tricky as a ferret and slick as a weasel - except when he needed to make a quick getaway from a Parliament House lavatory some years ago.

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A Dane in the life of Tony Abbott, from Joh to whoa

Tony Wright Opposition Leader Tony Abbott quite lost his grip yesterday when welcoming Crown Prince Frederik and Australian's own royal highness, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

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