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.
Tadpoles tangled in tentacles for the tongue twister titles
Tony Wright Cabinet ministers Gary Gray and Craig Emerson will be busier than one-armed fiddlers as they negotiate their gigantic new portfolios.
Labor's tadpoles left to swim in acronym soup
Tony Wright Cabinet ministers Gary Gray and Craig Emerson will be busier than one-armed fiddlers.
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.
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.
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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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Swan songs and the quest for boomer cred in the heart of the Boss' fan belt
Tony Wright What did Bruce Springsteen ever do to deserve this? Even Paul Keating had the decency to choose a composer already dead, Gustav Mahler, with whom to parade his cultural pretensions.
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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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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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Time for a bit of selective recall
Tony Wright It ought to take no more than a morning and lunch for Labor's review committee to work out what went wrong in the election campaign, but memories can play tricks.
Goanna Tracks
Flashbacks and resurrections
Tony Wright The Labor campaign is taking on the air of a postmodern crime novel, where nothing that has gone before is meant to have any bearing on the future.
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Scandals not created equal
Tony Wright A minister visits a gay sauna in a taxpayer-funded car. Tony Abbott confesses to sometimes saying the wrong thing. What's to get outraged about?
Goanna Tracks
Time to lock up your reporters
Tony Wright The day the federal budget papers are released brings incarceration for many of the nation's newshounds - and it's their own fault.
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Tanner's Montana shot misses the mark, but Minchin's militia hits home with friendly fire
Tony Wright The folk of Hardin, Big Horn County, in the backwoods of Montana, are a bit puzzled about Lindsay Tanner.
