Tony Wright
Tony Wright is an associate editor and special writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Middle East at war
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.
- Tony Wright
Latest
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Middle East tensions
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.
- Tony Wright
For Mary and Frederik, this royal visit is strictly (green) business
King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark were given the royal treatment on their first day in Melbourne, but sustainable business was top of the agenda.
- Tony Wright
- Analysis
- Middle East at war
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.
- Tony Wright
- Middle East at War
- Donald Trump
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 against the light of 20th century history.
- Tony Wright
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Middle East at war
How the world’s most extravagant party set Iran on a path to ruin
Roasted peacocks, an Australian butler and the Shah: Inside the 1971 desert feast that sowed the seeds of revolution.
- Tony Wright
Moving the F1 circus across a troubled world, with just hours to spare
Transporting 1200 tonnes of Grand Prix gear and people through a war zone is just another day on the job for logistics expert Simon Price.
- Tony Wright
- Obituary
- Architecture
The man who built modern Melbourne – from the MCG, to Marvel to our first skyscraper
Among the striking designs to come from Daryl Jackson’s busy drawing board was the wonderfully named Harold Holt Memorial Swimming centre - but it was 120 Collins Street that got a few noses out of joint.
- Tony Wright
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Luciano Pavarotti
A glorious song and sporting beauty offer escape from gathering darkness
In a world tumbling ever deeper into darkness, great sporting events accompanied by the magnificent aria Nessun Dorma grant blessed release.
- Tony Wright
- Sketch
- Epstein fallout
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.
- Tony Wright