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Why Trump and every cat-hater need Sparkles in their lives

She was a homeless cat. My granddaughter stepped in and demanded we adopt her. And so began a story of love – and much-needed respite from a...

09.04.2026 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Why Trump and every cat-hater need Sparkles in their lives

She was a homeless cat. My granddaughter stepped in and demanded we adopt her. And so began a story of love – and much-needed respite from a...

09.04.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Why Trump and every cat-hater need Sparkles in their lives

She was a homeless cat. My granddaughter stepped in and demanded we adopt her. And so began a story of love – and much-needed respite from a...

09.04.2026 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Why Trump and every cat-hater need Sparkles in their lives

She was a homeless cat. My granddaughter stepped in and demanded we adopt her. And so began a story of love – and much-needed respite from a...

09.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

In a world maddened by blood, has death lost its meaning?

It is the paradox of numbers. Lost amid the carnage of war and its endless casualties are personal grief and shattered lives.

26.03.2026 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

In a world maddened by blood, has death lost its meaning?

It is the paradox of numbers. Lost amid the carnage of war and its endless casualties are personal grief and shattered lives.

26.03.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

In a world maddened by blood, has death lost its meaning?

It is the paradox of numbers. Lost amid the carnage of war and its endless casualties are personal grief and shattered lives.

26.03.2026 30

The Age

Tony Wright

In a world maddened by blood, has death lost its meaning?

It is the paradox of numbers. Lost amid the carnage of war and its endless casualties are personal grief and shattered lives.

26.03.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Petrol queues and rationing: How Trump and his secretary of war ignored the lessons of history

The oil shocks of the 1970s had once taught presidents and military chiefs to observe some caution in the Middle East.

19.03.2026 20

WA Today

Tony Wright

Petrol queues and rationing: How Trump and his secretary of war ignored the lessons of history

The oil shocks of the 1970s had once taught presidents and military chiefs to observe some caution in the Middle East.

19.03.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Petrol queues and rationing: How Trump and his secretary of war ignored the lessons of history

The oil shocks of the 1970s had once taught presidents and military chiefs to observe some caution in the Middle East.

19.03.2026 20

The Age

Tony Wright

Petrol queues and rationing: How Trump and his secretary of war ignored the lessons of history

The oil shocks of the 1970s had once taught presidents and military chiefs to observe some caution in the Middle East.

19.03.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Eighty-six years before the Iranian women’s team, footballers from the Middle East sought asylum in Australia

War, as the Iranian women have had impressed upon them, brings desperately fraught times far from home for all manner of performers.

10.03.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Eighty-six years before the Iranian women’s team, footballers from the Middle East sought asylum in Australia

War, as the Iranian women have had impressed upon them, brings desperately fraught times far from home for all manner of performers.

10.03.2026 30

The Age

Tony Wright

Eighty-six years before the Iranian women’s team, footballers from the Middle East sought asylum in Australia

War, as the Iranian women have had impressed upon them, brings desperately fraught times far from home for all manner of performers.

10.03.2026 30

WA Today

Tony Wright

Eighty-six years before the Iranian women’s team, footballers from the Middle East sought asylum in Australia

War, as the Iranian women have had impressed upon them, brings desperately fraught times far from home for all manner of performers.

10.03.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

On Trump’s gilded stage, history has no worth – even if he understood it

Donald Trump’s complaints about Britain and European nations being “uncooperative” with his attack on Iran are ignorant and hollow when viewed...

07.03.2026 50

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

On Trump’s gilded stage, history has no worth – even if he understood it

Donald Trump’s complaints about Britain and European nations being “uncooperative” with his attack on Iran are ignorant and hollow when viewed...

07.03.2026 20

The Age

Tony Wright

On Trump’s gilded stage, history has no worth – even if he understood it

Donald Trump’s complaints about Britain and European nations being “uncooperative” with his attack on Iran are ignorant and hollow when viewed...

07.03.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

On Trump’s gilded stage, history has no worth – even if he understood it

Donald Trump’s complaints about Britain and European nations being “uncooperative” with his attack on Iran are ignorant and hollow when viewed...

07.03.2026 20

WA Today

Tony Wright

When Andrew got a princely lesson in the law in Australia

The disgraced former prince of the realm offered a telling insight into his royal snootiness at Melbourne Airport more than 20 years ago.

21.02.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

When Andrew got a princely lesson in the law in Australia

The disgraced former prince of the realm offered a telling insight into his royal snootiness at Melbourne Airport more than 20 years ago.

21.02.2026 70

The Age

Tony Wright

When Andrew got a princely lesson in the law in Australia

The disgraced former prince of the realm offered a telling insight into his royal snootiness at Melbourne Airport more than 20 years ago.

21.02.2026 30

WA Today

Tony Wright

When Andrew got a princely lesson in the law in Australia

The disgraced former prince of the realm offered a telling insight into his royal snootiness at Melbourne Airport more than 20 years ago.

21.02.2026 150

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

I wanted to hitchhike to Sydney. The pill-gobbling truckie had other ideas

The truckie’s plan in case the pills weren’t sufficient was that I had to stay awake to prod him in the ribs if he started nodding off. He...

06.01.2026 20

WA Today

Tony Wright

I wanted to hitchhike to Sydney. The pill-gobbling truckie had other ideas

The truckie’s plan in case the pills weren’t sufficient was that I had to stay awake to prod him in the ribs if he started nodding off. He...

06.01.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

I wanted to hitchhike to Sydney. The pill-gobbling truckie had other ideas

The truckie’s plan in case the pills weren’t sufficient was that I had to stay awake to prod him in the ribs if he started nodding off. He...

06.01.2026 20

The Age

Tony Wright

I wanted to hitchhike to Sydney. The pill-gobbling truckie had other ideas

The truckie’s plan in case the pills weren’t sufficient was that I had to stay awake to prod him in the ribs if he started nodding off. He...

06.01.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

History’s cruel ledger squared by a peek into 332 boxes from the past

The release of cabinet papers from the Cain and Kirner governments cast new light on the extent of state reforms before economic disaster struck.

31.12.2025 30

The Age

Tony Wright

The evil secrets of the Great Haunted Ocean Road

Decades ago, Elmer Crawford tried and failed to dispose of the bodies of his murdered family into the depths of a blowhole. Then he went missing –...

25.12.2025 30

The Age

Tony Wright

Australia is not a nation familiar with massacre on its streets, and we must never become one

Australian political leaders must act together to harness the national shock and mourning to lead the country out of this cultural and religious...

15.12.2025 20

WA Today

Tony Wright

Australia is not a nation familiar with massacre on its streets, and we must never become one

Australian political leaders must act together to harness the national shock and mourning to lead the country out of this cultural and religious...

15.12.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Australia is not a nation familiar with massacre on its streets, and we must never become one

Australian political leaders must act together to harness the national shock and mourning to lead the country out of this cultural and religious...

15.12.2025 30

The Age

Tony Wright

Australia is not a nation familiar with massacre on its streets, and we must never become one

Australian political leaders must act together to harness the national shock and mourning to lead the country out of this cultural and religious...

15.12.2025 40

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Escaping the press gallery lows to revel in the high life

What 17 years of ‘Old Farts’ weekends taught Tony Wright and a group of political journalists about life.

20.11.2025 30

WA Today

Tony Wright

Escaping the press gallery lows to revel in the high life

What 17 years of ‘Old Farts’ weekends taught Tony Wright and a group of political journalists about life.

20.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Escaping the press gallery lows to revel in the high life

What 17 years of ‘Old Farts’ weekends taught Tony Wright and a group of political journalists about life.

20.11.2025 20

The Age

Tony Wright

Escaping the press gallery lows to revel in the high life

What 17 years of ‘Old Farts’ weekends taught Tony Wright and a group of political journalists about life.

20.11.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

The country boy with polio who became Australia’s most famous GP

John Murtagh was a boy who learned respect for rural doctoring when he was struck down by polio. He would go on to shape general practice around the...

23.10.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

‘There is nothing intelligent to be said after a massacre’

Another war, another city, another century. My father just wanted someone to talk to. His new acquaintance carried the secret of an atrocity.

16.10.2025 30

WA Today

Tony Wright

‘There is nothing intelligent to be said after a massacre’

Another war, another city, another century. My father just wanted someone to talk to. His new acquaintance carried the secret of an atrocity.

16.10.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

‘There is nothing intelligent to be said after a massacre’

Another war, another city, another century. My father just wanted someone to talk to. His new acquaintance carried the secret of an atrocity.

16.10.2025 20

The Age

Tony Wright

‘There is nothing intelligent to be said after a massacre’

Another war, another city, another century. My father just wanted someone to talk to. His new acquaintance carried the secret of an atrocity.

16.10.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

In a big cruel world, little Paddington Bear stands tall

As political forces in many countries try to exclude immigrants from gaining a foothold, a refugee from Peru retains the power to radiate hope.

09.10.2025 30

WA Today

Tony Wright

In a big cruel world, little Paddington Bear stands tall

As political forces in many countries try to exclude immigrants from gaining a foothold, a refugee from Peru retains the power to radiate hope.

09.10.2025 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

In a big cruel world, little Paddington Bear stands tall

As political forces in many countries try to exclude immigrants from gaining a foothold, a refugee from Peru retains the power to radiate hope.

09.10.2025 30

The Age

Tony Wright

In a big cruel world, little Paddington Bear stands tall

As political forces in many countries try to exclude immigrants from gaining a foothold, a refugee from Peru retains the power to radiate hope.

09.10.2025 40

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Watergate, the Kennedys and how the American dream took a Trumpian turn

Where do we find refuge from the madness that is the daily news from the United States? In the past, at the footy and in grumpy, fist-shaking...

25.09.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

The night Australian fascism should have died of embarrassment

Sensible Australians recoil from the sight of neo-Nazis marching in city streets. But fascism once attracted a secret army across country Victoria and...

11.09.2025 40

The Age

Tony Wright

Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Adam Lindsay who? The ‘shining soul’ a nation forgot

Before the Man from Snowy River was written, Adam Lindsay Gordon stunned all with his daredevil riding, and wrote poetry that captured the Australian...

30.08.2025 30

WA Today

Tony Wright