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.
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.
Sick Russian bears and puffed up Libyan bores sound a warning note on the need for renewal
Tony Wright Perhaps it is time for the United Nations to search for a new structure that moves the word "united" to a more meaningful role.
Lost in the headlines are the compassion and hard work seen every day in hospitals
Tony Wright Quite a lot of years ago this correspondent, having been foolish enough to fall off a motorcycle in a California desert, learned a little of the American medical system.
Liberals have been wasting their breath
Tony Wright The correlation between the Government's standing with voters and approval for the stimulus money is compelling.
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.
Spread the word: you don't mess with diggers or our sacred Vegemite
Tony Wright In 2001, some marketing genius advising Athletics Australia decided it would be a splendid idea to adopt the name the Aussie Diggers for the track and field team competing in the World Championships...
Tanner's Montana shot misses the mark, but Minchin's militia hits home with friendly fire
Tony Wright The folk of Hardin, Big Horn County, in the backwoods of Montana, are a bit puzzled about Lindsay Tanner.
Leader's spell of green witchcraft
Tony Wright 'I do not and will not worship at the altar of green witchcraft,' declared Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi.
Rudd drills it home to the troops on Howard years
Tony Wright John Howard could have been excused if he had suffered a relapse of the extreme reaction to a dental anaesthetic.
Come election day, Rudd and co may get a lesson in the folly of self-aggrandisement
Tony Wright SCHOOLS all around Australia become polling booths on election day. The atmosphere in the playgrounds becomes a celebration of our democracy as sausages sizzle on barbecues and how-to-vote leaflets...
Even in Canberra, the knives can come out without anyone ending up stabbed
Tony Wright THOSE who have built a picture of Federal Parliament as a planet of endless conflict, bastardry and general unpleasantness might hardly be surprised that the highlight of this week was the sudden...
It's no drain on the brain to see that this is a potential carbon sink we need to explore
Tony Wright SYD Shea stands before a couple of old 44-gallon drums, contented as a new father. The drums are hot and the air carries the scent of charcoal.
Turnbull's fortunes fade, PM rolls on unscathed
Tony Wright KEVIN Rudd's Government may have been rolled last week in its attempt to legislate its emissions trading scheme, but it has hardly made a dent in the voting public's support for Mr Rudd, his...
