Whales of the upwelling: reassurance from the deep in anxious times
Last week, strolling among the stalls at a beachside festival, I passed an old man patting the shoulder of a harried-looking woman.
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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.
Rudd serves up steaming hypocrisy over Turnbull's asylum policy
Kevin Rudd has attacked Malcolm Turnbull for embracing a policy that is spookily similar to his own.
The path to hell: trekkers honour Colin McPhedran's lost boyhood
Colin McPhedran, who endured too much torment too early, has been gone for six years now.
Travels on Highway 1: when Australia built a road for everyone
Almost 30 years ago, an editor told me to team up with a photographer and go for a very long drive.
Trump like a drunk having an argument with a mirror
About the most reliable method of doing in your head is to walk sober into a bar where a drunk is having an argument with a mirror.
Trump has always been a suitable candidate . . . to the missing
You've got to feel for all those senior Republicans who have suddenly discovered Donald Trump is not a suitable candidate for the Presidency.
The budgie nine: underpants and geopolitics
Let us give thanks for the Budgie Nine.
When the big men flew, the Greater Game was a matter of life and death
When a weekend rain is falling and the crowd is roaring - like today, say, when the battlers of the 'Scray go to war at the MCG with the glamour from Sydney - it is tempting to imagine that a game is a matter of life and death.
Nostalgia has its limits, even for the drive-in theatre
They are almost all gone now, those sprawling temples to entertainment, passion and the supremacy of the car - gone beneath weeds on the edge of towns, turned into carparks, developed for apartments or overtaken by industrial estates.
The Coodabeens: 1000 episodes of a Melbourne treasure
If there's a better song about hard-doers heading to the game I've never heard it.
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