Tony Wright
Associate editor at The Age and veteran political sketch writer with a 50-year career producing political commentary and sketches that capture moments in Australian politics.
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Feb 19, 2026 • 6min
The Sketch: Tony Wright on 'Nation's worst government? Jane Hume's hyperbolic historical claim'
Tony Wright, associate editor at The Age and 50-year political sketch veteran, riffs on Jane Hume’s claim that Labor is the nation’s worst government. He compares recent Coalition leaders, revisits McMahon and Whitlam’s chaotic years, recalls Billy Hughes’ party hopping and Scullin’s Depression-era woes. A witty tour of notorious political moments that asks: who really deserves the crown?
