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.
Message by Tony express: you're a disgrace, Abbott!
Tony Wright It was the second anniversary of Julia Gillard's famous promise that no government she led would introduce a carbon tax, and Tony Abbott was not about to let that pass without a celebratory bout of...
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G. Rudd relies on divine intervention
Tony Wright Greg Rudd announced this week he was seeking a Senate seat. Given that Queensland Senate seats are generally sewn up tighter than a Mormon's undergarments by Labor and the Liberal National Party, an...
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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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.
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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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Losers turn on Bligh, who fires a final shot
Tony Wright The blame game was sweeping Qld's Labor Party even before the poll that ripped out its heart.
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Clive, the entertainer, refloats his political boat
Tony Wright Captain Clive Palmer of the SS Titanic hit an iceberg years ago. Its name was Peter Slipper.
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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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The distinction of extinction
Tony Wright Julia Gillard would be advised to go to the people as soon as possible. She cannot afford to appear to be standing still in the age of obsolescence.
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Why October has my vote
Tony Wright In Canberra, a tipping round is heating up as political punters juggle footy grand finals, winter blues, and state elections to predict an election date.
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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?
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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.
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Spread the word: you don't mess with diggers or our sacred Vegemite
Tony Wright In 2001, some marketing genius advising Athletics Australia decided it would be a splendid idea to adopt the name the Aussie Diggers for the track and field team competing in the World Championships...
