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.
Gillard joins the dots and tries to control message
Tony Wright Put-upon Prime Minister discovers Tony Abbott's Liberal Party is waging a sexist war upon her.
The enemy has been identified: don't trust the men in blue ties
Tony Wright Put-upon Prime Minister Julia Gillard, enemies lurking, is joining the dots … and has discovered Tony Abbott's Liberal Party is waging a sexist war upon her, and thus, the women of Australia.
Western Sydney, where pollies would have you think crime control is at sea
Tony Wright Crime in western Sydney is, apparently, out of control. Worse, the inhabitants' borders aren't being protected.
Prepare ye the way to a northern promised land
Tony Wright The Abbott Liberal Party's draft plan to settle and develop Australia north of the Tropic of Capricorn is a very long way from being the most remarkable scheme for a northern promised land.
Surprise reflections in a nation's mirror
Tony Wright IN A week when a small grab bag of historians attempted to puncture some of the mythology surrounding what happened in the hills above Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula 97 years ago, an estimated...
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Flashbacks and resurrections
Tony Wright The Labor campaign is taking on the air of a postmodern crime novel, where nothing that has gone before is meant to have any bearing on the future.
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Salve for a scalding start
Tony Wright A fledgling reporter once had a taste of the compassion that prompted Malcolm Fraser to walk away from a party he felt had lost its humanity.
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The benefits of a predecessor's fury
Tony Wright If leaders build voter support as much upon who they are not as who they are, then Paul Keating's savaging of Tony Abbott this week did the Opposition Leader a favour.
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More than a mere mad monk
Tony Wright Tony Abbott is a one-dimensional conservative to his detractors, which is a pity, for he is, like a lot of leaders, a splendid tangle of contradictions.
