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.
Following the path of Mulga Fred, wanderer
Tony Wright In the past few decades we have been joined by ever-growing numbers of long-distant wanderers.
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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?
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...
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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Outback mission scores a century
Tony Wright Way out in the Australian inland, lonely stockmen tend to call any visiting preacher ''padre''. It is a curious term, for it means ''father'' in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, suggesting a...
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And Julia said. . .
Tony Wright 'The real Julia'? Tony Wright disects the PM's comments to see what she really means.
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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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Celebrate the ordinary things
Tony Wright The apparently mundane doesn't impress us, whether it's a successful plane journey, hot water on tap or a successful immigrant.
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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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A healthy state is priceless
Tony Wright As anyone who has taken a child to hospital in the middle of the night knows, it is the pride doctors and nurses take in their work that makes the difference.
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Frozen rain, barbeques and jokes about the lotus position: a strange view from Tony Abbott's bike
Tony Wright Tony Abbott has perfected the quick apparel change. Think Superman. One minute he is in sweat-soaked lycra and clonking around in cycling shoes...
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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.
