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.
Curiouser and curiouser but at least they seem to be on the same page
Tony Wright Lewis Carroll knew a caucus when he saw one in his luxuriant imagination.
When no move is a big move
Tony Wright There had been much over-excited expectation of something ... anything ... happening at Tuesday's meeting of the Gillard government's caucus.
Crean and punishment: from minister to sacrificial goat
Tony Wright Simon Crean believed the Labor Party needed something approaching a bomb to blow a hole in its thin facade as a competitive political outfit.
Mark Kenny and Tony Wright
How it all went so horribly wrong for Labor
Mark Kenny and Tony Wright How did the government leave Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in a seemingly unassailable position to waltz into the Lodge in September?
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.
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Run on baseball bats as Labor descends into viciousness
Tony Wright Just before boarding his jet, Rudd employed his dirtiest tactic. 'People power' he cried.
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I'm Kevin and I'm here to help Julia
Tony Wright Kevin Rudd took not a single question as he stood before the media to declare he accepted without rancour the Labor caucus's judgment of him, more than two-thirds of which rejected his wild hope of...
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Smart bomb crosses continents for a direct hit
Tony Wright It was the most audacious stealth attack in modern Australian political history.
The Wright Words
The benefits of a predecessor's fury
Tony Wright If leaders build voter support as much upon who they are not as who they are, then Paul Keating's savaging of Tony Abbott this week did the Opposition Leader a favour.
Goanna Tracks
More than a mere mad monk
Tony Wright Tony Abbott is a one-dimensional conservative to his detractors, which is a pity, for he is, like a lot of leaders, a splendid tangle of contradictions.
