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.
Forget politics, is there a doctor in the House?
Tony Wright High lunacy infecting Canberra could be detected in the rustic humour of Tony Windsor on Monday.
China's payback to ASIO the latest in a tradition of spookery
Tony Wright In Canberra, like every national capital in the world, the spookery never stops.
Tossers fail to grasp intricacies of Gillard's education revolution
Tony Wright There was a time - quite a while ago - when students fortunate enough to have a salami sandwich packed into their lunchboxes would hide it, fearful of racial profiling by dimwit bullies.
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Preparing for B-Day and hoping that the other bastard dies
Tony Wright The embattled Gillard government's battalions of media advisors, facing a tough budget and an even more difficult election campaign, are being put on a war footing worthy of the D-Day landings ...
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.''
Fantasy choo-choo another test of Australian travellers' patience
Tony Wright It may be a little early to book reservations aboard Australia's Very Fast Train, and even if you could get one - say for the 50th birthday of your just-born grandchild - you'd be best not to put...
Siding with realism confounds fantasy choo-choo
Tony Wright It may be a little early to book reservations aboard Australia's Very Fast Train, and even if you could get one, say for the 50th birthday of your newborn grandchild, you would be best not to put...
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...
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.
Fifty minutes of rolled-gold high dudgeon
Tony Wright Theemergency lights start flashing in the Prime Minister's office long before dawn.
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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Question time has become rather questionable itself
Tony Wright Perched on a hill in Canberra is a building called Parliament House. It cost Australians $1 billion in 1980s dollars. It costs several hundreds of millions a year to run.
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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.
The sketch
Welcome to the House of fun with all the muck that's fit to rake
Tony Wright All you need to know about the state of affairs in Canberra is that question time was interrupted yesterday by a debate about the difference between ''muck'' and ''muckraking''.
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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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Smart bomb crosses continents for a direct hit
Tony Wright It was the most audacious stealth attack in modern Australian political history.
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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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.
