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.
Federal election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull's final message to undecided: stick with me
Mark Kenny chief political correspondent PM appeals to voters to stick together, stick to what they know and stick to the Coalition.
Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull's marriage equality Faustian pact is unravelling
Mark Kenny, chief political correspondent When Tony Abbott suddenly declared the push for marriage equality to be "an important issue" last year it was tempting to imagine the Coalition had undergone a sea change of attitude.
Federal election 2016: Shorten's final pitch: budget security begins at home
Mark Kenny Chief political correspondent After eight weeks of dawn-past-dusk campaigning, Bill Shorten still looks fresh, even ebullient.
Election 2016: Labor's unlikely win slips away, analysis of 11 major polls finds
Mark Kenny Bill Shorten remains close but his chances of snaring an unlikely against-the-odds victory appear to be fading.
Julie Bishop: The Coalition's gold-standard electoral asset and just as lethal
Mark Kenny Chief political correspondent In chess, as in politics, the Bishop is a highly valued piece because it may move as far as it wants, "but only diagonally" meaning it is vital but cannot rival its King or Queen.
Federal election 2016: Don't risk change, Malcolm Turnbull pleads with voters
Mark Kenny, chief political correspondent Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's marathon election campaign reached its final exhausted stages at its official "launch" on Sunday.
Same-sex marriage: Secret moves within Coalition to hobble plebiscite
Mark Kenny A secret push is under way within the Coalition party room to hobble any positive public vote in favour of same-sex marriage equality by giving conservative MPs and senators permission to vote in...
Election 2016: ACTU pushes for 'portable leave' holiday overhaul
Mark Kenny Workers should be able to carry holidays between employers, according to the nation's peak union body.
Election 2016: The same-sex marriage question Malcolm Turnbull must now answer
Mark Kenny When Malcolm Turnbull is asked about his adoption of Tony Abbott's public plebiscite, he immediately invokes the democratic virtue of allowing the people to decide.
Federal election 2016: Medicare and boats - who not to believe?
Mark Kenny Daily, the bitter 2016 race is putting a new twist on a familiar saying: You made this election, so feel free to lie in it.
Election 2016: You've been told Labor can't win - but they can. The evidence was there all along
Mark Kenny If Bill Shorten wins, many will be forced to admit that the signs of a public shift had been wilfully ignored.
Federal election 2016: Reef bleaching serious threat to tourism, jobs: OS poll
Mark Kenny Explosion of stories in international media covering disastrous coral bleaching under way on Great Barrier Reef likely to see fewer people visit Australia, according to overseas survey of...
Federal election 2016: Bill Shorten's best shot, but will it be enough?
Mark Kenny Labor does better stories, has better stories, believes better stories. Even when they're only partly true.
Fairfax-Ipsos poll: Labor still in it...but dig deeper and there are big problems
Mark Kenny At first blush, Labor will be delighted to be favoured in the polls within a fortnight of polling day. Who would not want to lead at this late stage?
Federal election 2016: Labor within striking distance
Mark Kenny Bill Shorten has held on to his overall lead during the last fortnight despite a full-throated Coalition attack on economic management, to be within striking distance of an upset win on...
Federal election 2016: Broadband bravado: NBN does it again
Mark Kenny It was a typically aggressive denial which didn't disprove the original insult so much as compound it.
Election 2016: NBN boss Ziggy Switkowski breached caretaker conventions, investigation finds
Mark Kenny Ziggy Switkowski was strongly warned his plan would breach the rules. He went ahead anyway.
Airport firefighters warn rule safety change will risk air passenger lives
Mark Kenny Passengers using country airports would be put at increased risk of death if the federal government tightens eligibility rules requiring "aerodrome rescue fire fighting services" to be present,...
Election 2016: Why some in both camps suspect Bill Shorten's Labor has already peaked
Mark Kenny If Malcolm Turnbull wins the election he will claim his big gamble was brilliant. But that would be spin.
Election 2016: Labor's big internet play - faster NBN broadband, same price range
Mark Kenny, James Massola Twice as many Australians would get faster fibre-to-the-home internet connections under a future Shorten Labor government, but the rollout of the NBN would cost taxpayers at most only $1 billion more...
