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.
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''.
Today Roxon, Evans. Tomorrow...?
Tony Wright Farewells, like concession speeches, are regularly more dignified affairs than the caterwauling that passes for daily political discourse.
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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.
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...
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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.
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Houston delivers 'hard-headed' and 'realistic' counsel
Tony Wright A storm at sea, the Taliban and Peter Reith? Mere aggravations compared with stepping into the asylum stand-off apparently.
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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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Our job is to never forget
Tony Wright We increasingly go about our business on Remembrance Day, but World War I left a hole in the Australian heart that has not been filled.
Goanna Tracks
Season for concealment
Tony Wright It was a blow for Christmas Islanders when the government knocked back applications for new phosphate-mining leases. Didn't hear about it? You're not alone.
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Strangers to our shores
Tony Wright Despite increasing sophistication over the decades, Australia remains confused and at odds about what it is to be an immigrant nation.
