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.
Children trapped on the ground, longing to fly
Tony Wright Many years ago I was acquainted with a young teacher at a primary school that drew many of its pupils from the flats in one of those soulless high-rise public housing towers tossed up in Melbourne's...
Prepare ye the way to a northern promised land
Tony Wright The Abbott Liberal Party's draft plan to settle and develop Australia north of the Tropic of Capricorn is a very long way from being the most remarkable scheme for a northern promised land.
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Silver touch of the old Bodgie unable to lighten Labor's burden
Tony Wright Even on the sidelines, even at the age of 83, Bob Hawke still commands the centre of attention.
A Dreyfus affair of Julie Bishop's making
Tony Wright Ms Bishop, if we were to be generous, may have been genuinely seeking a long-range legal view of Jewish settlements in West Bank from Australia's first law officer in some estoteric belief he had...
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Another day, another drama - and we've only just begun
Tony Wright Farewells, like concession speeches, are regularly more dignified affairs than the caterwauling that passes for daily political discourse.
Today Roxon, Evans. Tomorrow...?
Tony Wright Farewells, like concession speeches, are regularly more dignified affairs than the caterwauling that passes for daily political discourse.
Pregnant pause leads into day of reckoning
Tony Wright JULIA GILLARD has consigned Australians to something approaching a national pregnancy.
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A pregnant pause in the footy finals? What an immaculate misconception
Tony Wright Julia Gillard has consigned Australians to something approaching a national pregnancy.
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We could all be forgiven for wishing this day of atonement would come sooner
Tony Wright Julia Gillard has consigned Australians to something approaching a national pregnancy. No prime minister in Australian history has dared to subject the nation to such a trial.
And the finger goes up as blokey Tim bowls Julia a googly
Tony Wright The Prime Minister's face performed a remarkable transition - jolly, carefree smile to impenetrable stone on the turn of a phrase.
What a tweet: Laming puts foot in mouth, again
Tony Wright THE federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine that anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
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Near-sighted Laming makes a twit of himself
Tony Wright Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
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Near-sighted Dr Laming makes tweet of himself again
Tony Wright Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
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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.
