Mark Kenny
Mark Kenny is Fairfax Media's chief political correspondent. A vice-president of the National Press Club, he regularly appears on the ABC's Insiders, Sky News Agenda, and other televsion and radio programs. He has reported from Canberra under five prime ministers (and counting) and even more opposition leaders.
Turnbull gets a lesson in the complexities of the federation
Mark Kenny "Utter humiliation" was how a Labor insider described Malcolm Turnbull's stunning repudiation at Friday's Council of Australian Governments meeting.
COAG: Malcolm Turnbull's radical plan on state taxing powers knocked back
Mark Kenny State and territory leaders have flatly rejected Malcolm Turnbull's radical plan to hand them income taxing powers, unceremoniously consigning the idea to the political dustbin.
Malcolm Turnbull's COAG proposals: part policy, part politics
Mark Kenny Whether Malcolm Turnbull's abrasive approach to federal financing reform at this COAG is visionary and achievable or simply pre-election posturing of a panicked government's search for...
Malcolm Turnbull's tax revolution: Hand income taxing powers to states
Mark Kenny State and territory leaders have responded coolly to Malcolm Turnbull's invitation to take less in tied grants from Canberra in exchange for gaining their own income taxing powers with which to...
COAG: Premiers weigh up big hospital funding cuts in order to get indexation
Peter Martin, Mark Kenny Leaked briefing papers prepared for Friday's premiers' meeting show NSW is prepared to forgo $2.79 billion in hospital funding over the next three years in order to get a commitment from the...
Malcolm Turnbull pushes for bills rather than election
Mark Kenny Confidence is building within the government that previously blocked union watchdog legislation could yet pass through the Senate in special sittings later this month as a new spirit of compromise...
Does Malcolm Turnbull really want a deal on the union watchdog bill?
Mark Kenny Malcolm Turnbull's weekend overture to the Senate crossbench has confounded some, but the PM won't mind that. In fact, that was partly the point.
Budget 2016: Cutting business taxes does not lead to growth, says study
Mark Kenny, Chief Political Correspondent Cutting the company tax rate will neither create the jobs nor produce the economic growth that the government and the business lobby claim it would, according to an historical examination of...
Malcolm Turnbull warns of Europe's perfect storm
Mark Kenny, David Wroe European authorities have lost control of their own security in a perfect storm of poorly integrated Muslim communities, and an inability to know who is within its borders,...
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States buckle on federal schools funding cuts
Mark Kenny NSW Premier Mike Baird is proceeding with a new compromise deal which would spread out the final two years of Gonski funding over four years.
Malcolm Turnbull's green shift another blow to Tony Abbott
Mark Kenny Malcolm Turnbull has added to the growing differences between his administration and the previous Abbott government by reversing Coalition hostility to forward-leaning climate change policy through...
Same same but different: Malcolm Turnbull bristles at Tony Abbott comparison
Mark Kenny He might as well have said "same same but different" for all the sense it makes to the uninitiated voter.
Malcolm Turnbull puts nation on election footing for likely double dissolution
Mark Kenny Four disparate senators who between them secured fewer than 10,000 votes could decide whether Australia goes to an early double dissolution on July 2 or waits for a standard spring...
Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull throws caution to the wind
Mark Kenny Have no illusion, this is less bluff, more statement of intent.
Why cutting taxes for big business instead of workers will test Malcolm Turnbull's sales skills
Mark Kenny, Chief Political Correspondent For Malcolm Turnbull, the policy basis of this may well be sound, but the politics in the lead-up to the 2016 poll are less favourable.
Pressure on government to make budget repair levy permanent
Gareth Hutchens, Peter Martin, Mark Kenny Fresh from admitting that tax cuts for individuals cannot be afforded due to a lack of funds, the Turnbull government is being called on to go the other way by retaining the temporary budget repair...
If only a 'political effects test' applied to the Prime Minister
Mark Kenny The Turnbull government has caught the big end of town off-guard by inserting an "effects" test in competition law.
Labor claims Scott Morrison's position as Treasurer 'untenable' after retreat on GST and tax cuts
Mark Kenny Labor is ratcheting up the pressure on Treasurer Scott Morrison, suggesting his position has become untenable.
Senate stand-off cruels July election as income tax cuts ditched
Mark Kenny Malcolm Turnbull's options for an early double-dissolution election on July 2, have narrowed considerably with an unmanageable Senate frustrating even his attempts to get government legislation...
Shorten to target under-employment, inequality
Mark Kenny Bill Shorten has declared the next election should be a referendum on policy results and "leadership" branding Malcolm Turnbull's government to be long on waffle, as the country...
