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.
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.
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Slipper moment of clarity closes ghastly spectacle
Tony Wright AND so, a chap who refers to women's private bits as ''shell-less mussels'' was to be allowed to remain Speaker of the House of Representatives, the most powerful job in the chamber, even if he...
Message by Tony express: you're a disgrace, Abbott!
Tony Wright It was the second anniversary of Julia Gillard's famous promise that no government she led would introduce a carbon tax, and Tony Abbott was not about to let that pass without a celebratory bout of...
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Craig's list: the greatest conspiracy of them all
Tony Wright If you were to believe him, Craig Thomson is the victim of the greatest conspiracy in modern Australian public life.
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Tony Wright To begin to understand the high absurdity of the national parliament today, you need to allow yourself to float off to a plane where none of the normal fancies apply
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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...
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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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On the lawn of persuasion
Tony Wright The new and unexpectedly powerful voices being heard from Parliament tend to emanate not from its hallowed halls but a small, once insignificant patch of grass.
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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.
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All gloss and guff, no glory
Tony Wright An apocryphal tale of K-Rudd's genealogy reflects a Zeitgeist of spin where a disenchanted public is so over polly-speak it is opting for the Don Key vote.
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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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Libs in a flap as Turnbull wings it
Tony Wright Opposition leader's confused flock looks unlikely to knock him off his perch just yet.
