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.
Shorten stuck between a rock and a hard place
Tony Wright It is a measure of the Labor Party's current desperation that a single minister, Bill Shorten, has emerged as an emblematic figure supposedly invested with almost super powers.
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.
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.''
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...
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Near-sighted Laming makes a twit of himself
Tony Wright Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
What a tweet: Laming puts foot in mouth, again
Tony Wright THE federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine that anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
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Near-sighted Dr Laming makes tweet of himself again
Tony Wright Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming is, of course, from Queensland, which possibly explains his inability to imagine anything of significance could happen anywhere else.
ASIS boss opens up on a kinder, gentler spy agency
Tony Wright ASIS doesn't use violence, blackmail or threats in its work to protect Australia against terrorism and other security threats, the agency's boss says.
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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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Time for a bit of selective recall
Tony Wright It ought to take no more than a morning and lunch for Labor's review committee to work out what went wrong in the election campaign, but memories can play tricks.
Goanna Tracks
Sins of the state system
Tony Wright Don't live in New South Wales or Queensland? Then don't expect any love and attention from our leaders.
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Why October has my vote
Tony Wright In Canberra, a tipping round is heating up as political punters juggle footy grand finals, winter blues, and state elections to predict an election date.
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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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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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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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Strangers to our shores
Tony Wright Despite increasing sophistication over the decades, Australia remains confused and at odds about what it is to be an immigrant nation.
