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.
Poll dancing in the dark with Wayne Swansteen
Tony Wright Call it the Malcolm Fraser effect. Or Swannie's magical invocation to The Boss. As poll-watchers puzzle over how it might be that Newspoll could give the Gillard government a 5 percentage-point...
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Federal poll's sullen mood haunts Gillard
Tony Wright Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and his colleagues have taken to taunting Prime Minister Julia Gillard by reminding her that she said Kevin Rudd's administration had lost its way.
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?
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Rudd resurrection is no fantasy: just ask Walt
Tony Wright If you were to splice science fiction, political fantasy and cutting-edge medical science, you may just conjure a vision of Lazarus emerging from a 2000-year cryogenic state to be revived with a...
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Rudd's just in storage, waiting for sun to shine
Tony Wright If you were to splice science fiction, political fantasy and cutting-edge medical science, you may just conjure a vision of Lazarus emerging from a 2000-year cryogenic state to be revived with a...
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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...
Deadly Jackman quip puts Gillard to the sword
Tony Wright If Julia Gillard could have found a handy time warp around Sydney's Fox movie studios, she would have crawled into it.
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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.
Goanna Tracks
Sins of the state system
Tony Wright Don't live in New South Wales or Queensland? Then don't expect any love and attention from our leaders.
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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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All gloss and guff, no glory
Tony Wright An apocryphal tale of K-Rudd's genealogy reflects a Zeitgeist of spin where a disenchanted public is so over polly-speak it is opting for the Don Key vote.
