menu_open Columnists
Tony Wright

Tony Wright

The Age

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

One April day, when a crazy dream got two cities flying high

Con artists, scammers and the cynical know how to make the gullible suffer. But on April Fool’s Day, innocence can turn into shared mirth.

latest 0

WA Today

Tony Wright

One April day, when a crazy dream got two cities flying high

Con artists, scammers and the cynical know how to make the gullible suffer. But on April Fool’s Day, innocence can turn into shared mirth.

latest 0

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

One April day, when a crazy dream got two cities flying high

Con artists, scammers and the cynical know how to make the gullible suffer. But on April Fool’s Day, innocence can turn into shared mirth.

latest 0

The Age

Tony Wright

One April day, when a crazy dream got two cities flying high

Con artists, scammers and the cynical know how to make the gullible suffer. But on April Fool’s Day, innocence can turn into shared mirth.

latest 0

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

The number one rule for political leaders on the campaign trail is simple: never take a backward step. You never know what you’ll step into.

29.03.2025 8

WA Today

Tony Wright

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

The number one rule for political leaders on the campaign trail is simple: never take a backward step. You never know what you’ll step into.

29.03.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

The number one rule for political leaders on the campaign trail is simple: never take a backward step. You never know what you’ll step into.

29.03.2025 7

The Age

Tony Wright

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

The number one rule for political leaders on the campaign trail is simple: never take a backward step. You never know what you’ll step into.

29.03.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of...

27.03.2025 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of...

27.03.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of...

27.03.2025 30

The Age

Tony Wright

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of...

27.03.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

An enchanted garden reminds us how civilisations are built on taxes

An enchanted garden reminds us how civilisations are built on taxes

Only 3000 people lived in Melbourne when Charles La Trobe became superintendent, but he envisioned a great city, and reserved vast areas for today’s...

20.03.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

The tally room, like the sure thing that was Bob Hawke, is no more

As the latest federal election approaches, the sort of political certainty that once hoisted Bob Hawke to a long prime ministership is in short...

06.03.2025 8

WA Today

Tony Wright

The tally room, like the sure thing that was Bob Hawke, is no more

As the latest federal election approaches, the sort of political certainty that once hoisted Bob Hawke to a long prime ministership is in short...

06.03.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

The tally room, like the sure thing that was Bob Hawke, is no more

As the latest federal election approaches, the sort of political certainty that once hoisted Bob Hawke to a long prime ministership is in short...

06.03.2025 9

The Age

Tony Wright

The tally room, like the sure thing that was Bob Hawke, is no more

As the latest federal election approaches, the sort of political certainty that once hoisted Bob Hawke to a long prime ministership is in short...

06.03.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Seeking sanctuary from a deranged world? Bring on the footy

The writer Henry Miller gave us the perfect prescription for escape from a tumultuous world. We still need it. The footy season might have to suffice...

27.02.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is...

19.02.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 9

WA Today

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 10

The Age

Tony Wright

There is literally a word for the chaos of my desk. If I could just find the Roget’s

Visitors to Canberra’s sterile parliament house sometimes declared their spirits had revived once they’d seen my desk in the press gallery. Books...

07.01.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Note to Pesutto: Don’t mention the war

John Pesutto might have done himself a favour if he’d acquainted himself with an arch law of the internet or had studied a little political...

12.12.2024 4

The Age

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 4

WA Today

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 6

The Age

Tony Wright

Fantasy, comedy … or horror? Team Trump as a movie script is hard to believe

Consider the likely reaction of a big-time movie producer if a script-writer brought him a storyline that began with a US President-in-waiting...

16.11.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 2

WA Today

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 8

The Age

Tony Wright

Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?

The Murray River flows strong and cold on the border between the cities of Albury and Wodonga. Almost half a century ago, we moved to Albury and...

14.11.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 6

WA Today

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?

What a cold business is voting by post. It felt desolate last month, sorting disembodied local council candidates from a soulless written list,...

31.10.2024 5

The Age

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 5

WA Today

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 5

The Age

Tony Wright

The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks

Jimmy Clements had a message for the people of Australia. “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “Now...

24.10.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 6

WA Today

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 5

The Age

Tony Wright

Thorpe’s cry of outrage at King echoes a long history of frustration

Indigenous Australia has long experienced the frustration of trying to deliver its cries of pain and outrage to the royal family. Just ask the...

22.10.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright