Tony Wright

Canberra, Melbourne

Associate Editor and Special Writer at Sydney Morning Herald

Associate Editor and Special Writer at The Age

Associate Editor and Special Writer. The Age Melbourne and Sydney Morning Herald. Wander a bit.

Articles

Dorinda Cox joins Australian politics’ league of political defectors

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Tony Wright

Call that a political defection? Here are the deserters for the agesWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They don’t do political defections these days with the wild abandon and firecracker scandal of the past. Jacinta Price grabbed the headlines a few weeks ago, but hers wasn’t much of a defection, really.
Dorinda Cox joins Australian politics’ league of political defectors

3 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Tony Wright

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Waiting for rain as an ancient world files past, hoping truth matters

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Tony Wright

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Waiting for rain as an ancient world files past, hoping truth matters

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Tony Wright

By Tony Wright May 29, 2025 — 11.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It rained, chattering on the roof and gurgling down the pipes. Such a delicious song, accompanied by a chorus of frogs.
Waiting for rain as an ancient world files past, hoping truth matters

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Tony Wright

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Sixty years after they died together, two soldiers awarded for gallantry

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Tony Wright

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sixty years after Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley and Ron “Butch” Swanton died together at the edge of a paddy field in Vietnam, Wheatley preparing to hurl his last two grenades, and Swanton lying wounded at his feet, Australia has formally recognised their extraordinary acts of selfless courage.
Hundreds of walkers have converged on the site of Victoria’s first recorded Aboriginal massacre

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Tony Wright

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An ancient culture, a bloody past and hope for a healed future collided on Sunday on a windswept beach as hundreds of walkers converged on the site of Victoria’s first recorded massacre.
Hundreds of walkers have converged on the site of Victoria’s first recorded Aboriginal massacre

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Tony Wright

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After 191 years, Victoria’s Indigenous people will walk 400km for truth

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Tony Wright

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There was black, red and yellow paint galore as the children of Reservoir East Primary School prepared a banner to be carried on a long and historic “walk for truth”. The colours of the Aboriginal flag were enthusiastically stamped by hands and bare feet to create an unmistakable canvas of Indigenous pride.
US leader gets a flying palace. Paul Keating was doomed to jalopy in the sky

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Tony Wright

By Tony Wright May 22, 2025 — 11.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s unwise to get between a political leader and a VIP jet. I discovered this long before the US scammer-in-chief, Donald Trump, began making grateful cooing noises when the crafty Qatari royal family offered him the gift of a $600 million flying palace.