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.
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.
The Wright Words
A healthy state is priceless
Tony Wright As anyone who has taken a child to hospital in the middle of the night knows, it is the pride doctors and nurses take in their work that makes the difference.
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.''
Fantasy choo-choo another test of Australian travellers' patience
Tony Wright It may be a little early to book reservations aboard Australia's Very Fast Train, and even if you could get one - say for the 50th birthday of your just-born grandchild - you'd be best not to put...
Siding with realism confounds fantasy choo-choo
Tony Wright It may be a little early to book reservations aboard Australia's Very Fast Train, and even if you could get one, say for the 50th birthday of your newborn grandchild, you would be best not to put...
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...
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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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Near-sighted Laming makes a twit of himself
Tony Wright Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
What a tweet: Laming puts foot in mouth, again
Tony Wright THE federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine that anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
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Near-sighted Dr Laming makes tweet of himself again
Tony Wright Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
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Blame it on Rio: Burke leaves Bishop in choppy waters
Tony Wright Idle hands, the federal opposition and in particular its deputy, Julie Bishop, might ponder ruefully, are the devil's tools.
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.
The sketch
Welcome to the House of fun with all the muck that's fit to rake
Tony Wright All you need to know about the state of affairs in Canberra is that question time was interrupted yesterday by a debate about the difference between ''muck'' and ''muckraking''.
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No ifs or batts on the banned wagon
Tony Wright You won't hear the word insulation in the official halls of power these days. It has all but disappeared from the language of government and bureaucracy across the land: a banned word.
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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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Keep on digging, PM, even if the hole's too big
Tony Wright There's nothing quite like a trip to Gallipoli to focus the mind on lost causes.
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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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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.
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Time for a bit of selective recall
Tony Wright It ought to take no more than a morning and lunch for Labor's review committee to work out what went wrong in the election campaign, but memories can play tricks.
