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.
Not just any leadership crisis
Tony Wright As Prime Minister Julia Gillard maintained a wintry silence and Kevin Rudd confined himself to chattering with his 2.
Fickle fate: Labor keeping an eye out for goddess Fortuna
Tony Wright Labor MPs must follow Gillard over a waterfall or gamble their destiny on the hope that Rudd might save them.
Labor MP goes rogue on Gillard, down to the letter
Tony Wright Paul Keating in the 1980s became fond of a theory called the J-curve, sold to him by the Treasury, suggesting an initial fall in the fortunes of the dollar would create a lovely and satisfying...
With Labor down, Rudd pops up at 'the doors'
Tony Wright Kevin Rudd, you may be amazed to discover, rarely makes an appearance at what are known in Parliament House as "the doors".
Rudd sticks his head round the front door
Tony Wright Kevin Rudd, you may be amazed to discover, rarely makes an appearance at ''the doors''.
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Preparing for B-Day and hoping that the other bastard dies
Tony Wright The embattled Gillard government's battalions of media advisors, facing a tough budget and an even more difficult election campaign, are being put on a war footing worthy of the D-Day landings ...
Something has been broken at the heart of politics
Tony Wright Late last month, a woman stood alone on the forecourt of Canberra's Parliament House, inhaling gulps of cigarette smoke. ''All very nice,'' she said. ''Too late. Tomorrow it'll be wrapping chips.''
Western Sydney, where pollies would have you think crime control is at sea
Tony Wright Crime in western Sydney is, apparently, out of control. Worse, the inhabitants' borders aren't being protected.
Political thriller be damned, Bowen's going to save Labor instead
Tony Wright Chris Bowen's publishers, you'd imagine, are hoping he can write better than he can count. Finding himself with unexpected time on his hands over the past weeks, Bowen has been busily scribbling a...
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?
Giants will be replaced by pygmies
Tony Wright The choice of a new ministry from a shrinking political gene pool is the most daunting task Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces as she tries to shuffle her government out of the chaos that enveloped...
Fitting political pygmies into giants' shoes
Tony Wright The choice of a new ministry from a shrinking political gene pool is the most daunting task facing Prime Minister Julia Gillard as she tries to shuffle her government out of the chaos that enveloped...
Abbott's paper armour
Tony Wright Opposition Leader Tony Abbott carries a shield with him as he darts from greengrocer to drycleaner to manufacturer warning of the evils of the carbon tax and how Julia Gillard's government is...
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.
Pregnant pause leads into day of reckoning
Tony Wright JULIA GILLARD has consigned Australians to something approaching a national pregnancy.
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They came to praise Abbott, and to praise and praise and praise
Tony Wright Sainthood could hardly be more than a swirl of a cardinal's cassock away for Tony Abbott.
