menu_open
Tony Wright

Tony Wright

The Age

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

The child sat on a rock and smiled. The smile spread across his little face, dusted with the grey volcanic ash that coated everything in his desperate...

12.04.2024 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

The child sat on a rock and smiled. The smile spread across his little face, dusted with the grey volcanic ash that coated everything in his desperate...

12.04.2024 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

The child sat on a rock and smiled. The smile spread across his little face, dusted with the grey volcanic ash that coated everything in his desperate...

12.04.2024 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

The child sat on a rock and smiled. The smile spread across his little face, dusted with the grey volcanic ash that coated everything in his desperate...

12.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Roll up, roll up, suckers. Have we got a free trip to paradise for you

Every now and then, prompted by a notification from a friend or acquaintance, I open Facebook to discover I’m invited to enter a competition for a...

15.03.2024 7

WA Today

Tony Wright

Roll up, roll up, suckers. Have we got a free trip to paradise for you

Every now and then, prompted by a notification from a friend or acquaintance, I open Facebook to discover I’m invited to enter a competition for a...

15.03.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Roll up, roll up, suckers. Have we got a free trip to paradise for you

Every now and then, prompted by a notification from a friend or acquaintance, I open Facebook to discover I’m invited to enter a competition for a...

15.03.2024 40

The Age

Tony Wright

Roll up, roll up, suckers. Have we got a free trip to paradise for you

Every now and then, prompted by a notification from a friend or acquaintance, I open Facebook to discover I’m invited to enter a competition for a...

15.03.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

No grand final awaits Victoria’s pitiful Liberal team

The coming of autumn makes March the kindest month in Victoria. It heralds the return of the state’s great contribution to the people’s...

08.03.2024 20

The Age

Tony Wright

Scotty from Sunday school lays it on thick in final sermon

You never quite knew, over the years, who would turn up under the name of Scott Morrison. “Scotty from Marketing” has long been the naughty,...

27.02.2024 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

Scotty from Sunday school lays it on thick in final sermon

You never quite knew, over the years, who would turn up under the name of Scott Morrison. “Scotty from Marketing” has long been the naughty,...

27.02.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Scotty from Sunday school lays it on thick in final sermon

You never quite knew, over the years, who would turn up under the name of Scott Morrison. “Scotty from Marketing” has long been the naughty,...

27.02.2024 60

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Scotty from Sunday school lays it on thick in final sermon

You never quite knew, over the years, who would turn up under the name of Scott Morrison. “Scotty from Marketing” has long been the naughty,...

27.02.2024 10

The Age

Tony Wright

How to survive as a prime minister’s spouse

When Gough Whitlam became prime minister in 1972, his wife Margaret confronted a dilemma: How might she approach life as the spouse of the nation’s...

16.02.2024 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

How to survive as a prime minister’s spouse

When Gough Whitlam became prime minister in 1972, his wife Margaret confronted a dilemma: How might she approach life as the spouse of the nation’s...

16.02.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

How to survive as a prime minister’s spouse

When Gough Whitlam became prime minister in 1972, his wife Margaret confronted a dilemma: How might she approach life as the spouse of the nation’s...

16.02.2024 10

The Age

Tony Wright

How to survive as a prime minister’s spouse

When Gough Whitlam became prime minister in 1972, his wife Margaret confronted a dilemma: How might she approach life as the spouse of the nation’s...

16.02.2024 20

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

Dutton’s taxing time, wedged and tangled in dirty linen

There are few less comfortable positions, every politician knows, than sitting astride a wedge. It’s where Peter Dutton finds himself. Opposition...

09.02.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Dutton’s taxing time, wedged and tangled in dirty linen

There are few less comfortable positions, every politician knows, than sitting astride a wedge. It’s where Peter Dutton finds himself. Opposition...

09.02.2024 8

WA Today

Tony Wright

Dutton’s taxing time, wedged and tangled in dirty linen

There are few less comfortable positions, every politician knows, than sitting astride a wedge. It’s where Peter Dutton finds himself. Opposition...

09.02.2024 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Dutton’s taxing time, wedged and tangled in dirty linen

There are few less comfortable positions, every politician knows, than sitting astride a wedge. It’s where Peter Dutton finds himself. Opposition...

09.02.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

When the graves of our war dead were desecrated – to save the government money

To wander among the war cemeteries of the Gallipoli Peninsula, in northern France and Belgium, or at any of the other places around the world where...

26.01.2024 10

The Age

Tony Wright

Pretend Australia Day patriotism is a scoundrel’s refuge. Here’s a solution

As we slouch through this uncertain summer towards another Australia Day, it’s a fair bet we’ll hear much about patriotism, or the various...

19.01.2024 20

WA Today

Tony Wright

Pretend Australia Day patriotism is a scoundrel’s refuge. Here’s a solution

As we slouch through this uncertain summer towards another Australia Day, it’s a fair bet we’ll hear much about patriotism, or the various...

19.01.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

Pretend Australia Day patriotism is a scoundrel’s refuge. Here’s a solution

As we slouch through this uncertain summer towards another Australia Day, it’s a fair bet we’ll hear much about patriotism, or the various...

19.01.2024 8

The Age

Tony Wright

Pretend Australia Day patriotism is a scoundrel’s refuge. Here’s a solution

As we slouch through this uncertain summer towards another Australia Day, it’s a fair bet we’ll hear much about patriotism, or the various...

19.01.2024 60

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge

A rock sticks out from the sea up the beach a bit from where I spent my youth. Shag Rock, we always called it. Cormorants, also known as shags,...

12.01.2024 9

WA Today

Tony Wright

We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge

A rock sticks out from the sea up the beach a bit from where I spent my youth. Shag Rock, we always called it. Cormorants, also known as shags,...

12.01.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge

A rock sticks out from the sea up the beach a bit from where I spent my youth. Shag Rock, we always called it. Cormorants, also known as shags,...

12.01.2024 10

The Age

Tony Wright

We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge

A rock sticks out from the sea up the beach a bit from where I spent my youth. Shag Rock, we always called it. Cormorants, also known as shags,...

12.01.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

A fancy party and I was the hired help. Farm handing had become too real

The evenings were long that summer. Entertainment was scarce. When two merino rams took to fighting for the attention of the ewes, the percussion of...

02.01.2024 8

WA Today

Tony Wright

A fancy party and I was the hired help. Farm handing had become too real

The evenings were long that summer. Entertainment was scarce. When two merino rams took to fighting for the attention of the ewes, the percussion of...

02.01.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

A fancy party and I was the hired help. Farm handing had become too real

The evenings were long that summer. Entertainment was scarce. When two merino rams took to fighting for the attention of the ewes, the percussion of...

02.01.2024 10

The Age

Tony Wright

A fancy party and I was the hired help. Farm handing had become too real

The evenings were long that summer. Entertainment was scarce. When two merino rams took to fighting for the attention of the ewes, the percussion of...

02.01.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

A man stepped out on the road with an AK-47. I traded my life back with cigarettes – and a desperate joke

Everyone in Rwanda knew travelling after dark was inviting trouble. I’d taken a risk for a trivial reason, and now a large man with an assault rifle...

26.12.2023 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

A man stepped out on the road with an AK-47. I traded my life back with cigarettes – and a desperate joke

26.12.2023 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

A man stepped out on the road with an AK-47. I traded my life back with cigarettes – and a desperate joke

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the humid darkness, a fallen tree lay across the road. A large figure, a bandana...

26.12.2023 9

The Age

Tony Wright

A man stepped out on the road with an AK-47. I traded my life back with cigarettes – and a desperate joke

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the humid darkness, a fallen tree lay across the road. A large figure, a bandana...

26.12.2023 7

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

A trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions

Kit Olver felt his trawling net had snagged something large and unwelcome way in the depths long before he had any physical evidence of it. The note...

15.12.2023 30

WA Today

Tony Wright

A trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions

Kit Olver felt his trawling net had snagged something large and unwelcome way in the depths long before he had any physical evidence of it. The note...

15.12.2023 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

A trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions

Kit Olver felt his trawling net had snagged something large and unwelcome way in the depths long before he had any physical evidence of it. The note...

15.12.2023 10

The Age

Tony Wright

A trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions

Kit Olver felt his trawling net had snagged something large and unwelcome way in the depths long before he had any physical evidence of it. The note...

15.12.2023 10

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

There are worse things stolen from children than the colour of the sea

The morning brought the first hint of summer. The sea, flattened beneath a breezeless sky, was translucent. There seemed no horizon. My granddaughter...

08.12.2023 9

WA Today

Tony Wright

There are worse things stolen from children than the colour of the sea

The morning brought the first hint of summer. The sea, flattened beneath a breezeless sky, was translucent. There seemed no horizon. My granddaughter...

08.12.2023 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

There are worse things stolen from children than the colour of the sea

The morning brought the first hint of summer. The sea, flattened beneath a breezeless sky, was translucent. There seemed no horizon. My granddaughter...

08.12.2023 10

The Age

Tony Wright

There are worse things stolen from children than the colour of the sea

The morning brought the first hint of summer. The sea, flattened beneath a breezeless sky, was translucent. There seemed no horizon. My granddaughter...

08.12.2023 5

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

How Alfred Deakin used a shipwreck to lay bare the White Australia policy and win an election

Precisely 120 years ago this week, a steamship named the Petriana became lost in fog, missed the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, and smashed into a reef...

01.12.2023 10

WA Today

Tony Wright

How Alfred Deakin used a shipwreck to lay bare the White Australia policy and win an election

Precisely 120 years ago this week, a steamship named the Petriana became lost in fog, missed the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, and smashed into a reef...

01.12.2023 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Tony Wright

How Alfred Deakin used a shipwreck to lay bare the White Australia policy and win an election

Precisely 120 years ago this week, a steamship named the Petriana became lost in fog, missed the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, and smashed into a reef...

01.12.2023 7

The Age

Tony Wright

How Alfred Deakin used a shipwreck to lay bare the White Australia policy and win an election

Precisely 120 years ago this week, a steamship named the Petriana became lost in fog, missed the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, and smashed into a reef...

01.12.2023 9

Brisbane Times

Tony Wright

25890574b657e6d8034fd8a8058ae001