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.
The battle won, woman of steel sheds armour
Tony Wright Julia Gillard once spoke of having been a shy, reserved schoolchild who had grown a shell hardened by the rigours of politics and who had learnt the arts of ''holding a fair bit back, and hanging...
Refugees tarred with brush of prejudice
Tony Wright Refugees, barely more than boys, worked on our family farm when I was a child. Not one of them spoke anything approaching ''all the English language skills that you might normally expect''.
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.
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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...
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Write stuff leads us into the light
Tony Wright A DOCUMENTARY screened on SBS television this week reminded those fortunate enough to see it that the art of communicating by the written word gave the West the wonder known as the Renaissance.
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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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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On the lawn of persuasion
Tony Wright The new and unexpectedly powerful voices being heard from Parliament tend to emanate not from its hallowed halls but a small, once insignificant patch of grass.
Goanna Tracks
Put down that blunderbuss
Tony Wright It's an unpleasant prospect, but traipsing back to the polling booths may be better for us than letting Gillard and Abbott keep kowtowing to Katter and co.
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Salve for a scalding start
Tony Wright A fledgling reporter once had a taste of the compassion that prompted Malcolm Fraser to walk away from a party he felt had lost its humanity.
Goanna Tracks
Gallipoli and a gypsy cart
Tony Wright Strip away the politicians' fine words and the academic agonising, and Anzac Day doesn't really add up to much glorifying of war or a resurgent militarisation.
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A healthy state is priceless
Tony Wright As anyone who has taken a child to hospital in the middle of the night knows, it is the pride doctors and nurses take in their work that makes the difference.
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Abbott gets a dressing down
Tony Wright The Opposition Leader may need to go easy on the budgie-smugglers and bicycle shorts if he is to win over voters who want their leaders to look as if they are in charge.
