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.
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'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.
Tony Wright
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.
Tony Wright
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.
What exposes await as Abbott tosses up challenge?
Tony Wright The revelation by Tony Abbott's inner circle of women that his personal inner goddess is alive and well tosses up dreadful challenges for the Australian political class.
Is this the eve of destruction or just living in the '70s?
Tony Wright Imagine the horror that swept through Tony Abbott's office when his staff learnt he was off to a gymnastics centre.
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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Swan songs and the quest for boomer cred in the heart of the Boss' fan belt
Tony Wright What did Bruce Springsteen ever do to deserve this? Even Paul Keating had the decency to choose a composer already dead, Gustav Mahler, with whom to parade his cultural pretensions.
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.
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Run on baseball bats as Labor descends into viciousness
Tony Wright Just before boarding his jet, Rudd employed his dirtiest tactic. 'People power' he cried.
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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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Swan an also-ran as scandals gather steam
Tony Wright Budget Schmudget - the real action today is likely to be taking place on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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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.
Goanna Tracks
Time to lock up your reporters
Tony Wright The day the federal budget papers are released brings incarceration for many of the nation's newshounds - and it's their own fault.
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CPR(S) failed, patient died - but photo op worked a treat
Tony Wright Doctor Kevin Rudd was doing his familiar round of the wards when he found himself in Blacktown Hospital's emergency department in Sydney yesterday, forced to watch an attempt to revive an ersatz...
