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.
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...
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...
Tadpoles tangled in tentacles for the tongue twister titles
Tony Wright Cabinet ministers Gary Gray and Craig Emerson will be busier than one-armed fiddlers as they negotiate their gigantic new portfolios.
Labor's tadpoles left to swim in acronym soup
Tony Wright Cabinet ministers Gary Gray and Craig Emerson will be busier than one-armed fiddlers.
Like qualms to the slaughter
Tony Wright In parliament, Ms Gillard looked as if she’d certainly and very happily slaughter the occasional Abbott as he continued his customary taunting in relation to the carbon tax.
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Slipper blows the whistle on sparring match
Tony Wright One of the more curious rituals in the sport of boxing is that the referee wears a bow tie. It is supposed to offer a certain gentility to what essentially is a blood sport; a bit like calling it...
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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.
Labor totters on a high wire but keeps its unslippered feet
Tony Wright The Speaker, Peter Slipper, pleaded innocence and swept away to a future uncertain, leaving us no more than the memory of a billowing gown.
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High drama as Thomson stops the clock, but can he wind it back?
Tony Wright He speaks! Craig Thomson, once the holder of the most fascinating union-issued credit card in the land, proved that if nothing else, he is capable of breathtaking brinkmanship.
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Turnbull cops his share of criticism
Tony Wright 'Poor' may not be the most accurate description for Malcolm Turnbull, but the man was clearly being treated unkindly yesterday.
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Day of kiss and tell, but be quick about it
Tony Wright Passion of a sort is regularly on display in the parliamentary pit, but it's a rare day when there is an outbreak of prime ministerial smooching at the dispatch box.
