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.
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.''
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...
Crean and punishment: from minister to sacrificial goat
Tony Wright Simon Crean believed the Labor Party needed something approaching a bomb to blow a hole in its thin facade as a competitive political outfit.
Forced adoptions apology was PM at her finest
David Wroe, Tony Wright Julia Gillard's speech apologising from the nation to the broken-hearted women whose babies were taken from them at birth, the children who were adopted out before there was the chance of a bond...
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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.
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...
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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...
Och aye, PM could be on a hiding to nothing
Tony Wright You need a thick hide to inhabit the Prime Minister’s office these days. The matter, happily, is being fixed.
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Sofa, so good: PM's office furniture out of hiding after Howard's deep-seated dislike
Tony Wright You need a very thick hide to inhabit the Prime Minister's office these days.
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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...
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.
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From the icy depths, Planet Kevin serves up revenge
Tony Wright The mining tax and its disappearing benefits are as confusing as the sports doping saga.
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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MPs' day of grieving: for asylum seekers lost and a Labor marriage gone cold
Tony Wright It was as awkward as an anniversary dinner for a marriage gone cold; everyone attempting desperate pleasantries until Uncle Ernie swerves two swigs over his limit and decides it's time to be frank.
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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...
