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.
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Question time has become rather questionable itself
Tony Wright Perched on a hill in Canberra is a building called Parliament House. It cost Australians $1 billion in 1980s dollars. It costs several hundreds of millions a year to run.
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Daylight robery as grand new Speaker sinks the slipper
Tony Wright The Honourable Peter Slipper seemed awfully keen to impress as he swept to the majesty of his new throne as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Speaker in driver's seat as battle of wills leaves 'irrelevant' Gillard speechless
Tony Wright It was tempting to rush out and scan the sky for a blue moon or flying pork.
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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An MP sits wondering, lonely as a cloud, as Labor sets sights on fairer weather
Tony Wright CRAIG THOMSON was the loneliest man in the House of Representatives on budget day.
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MPs in extra time after Coalition fails to play ball
Tony Wright 'We are here on the last parliamentary day,' said Prime Minister Julia Gillard, sounding mightily relieved as she launched into the end-of-year valedictory ritual of reflecting kindly on months of...
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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.
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Hey, it's good to be monarch
Tony Wright The new Speaker will be the one who gets to say, ''Off with his head!'' if the Fourth Estate starts getting too pesky after Parliament returns.
