Mark Kenny is Fairfax Media's chief political correspondent. A director of the National Press Club, he regularly appears on the ABC's Insiders, Sky News Agenda, and Ten's Meet the Press. He has reported from Canberra under three prime ministers and several opposition leaders.
A moderate Malcolm Turnbull has emerged onto the world stage as both the great optimist and the great multi-lateralist, celebrating global progress in securing higher living standards while praising the usually maligned United Nations for successes on climate change, arms control, and refugee assistance.
Malcolm Turnbull has described Labor's botched management of the people smuggling challenge under Kevin Rudd's leadership as his "legacy of shame" and the worst policy failure in the country's history.
Taking refugees from Central America could be "price of entry' to the US summit, or could be part of a grander plan involving Manus Island and Nauru.
Malcolm Turnbull has enlisted key American political figures in New York to build the case for an unlikely last minute ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade liberalisation pact.
Malcolm Turnbull has urged world leaders to look to Australia's uncompromising border protection policies as a model for regaining control of international refugee flows and to hold their own political systems together. He said countries must pool their efforts to create "order out of chaos" on a global scale.
Malcolm Turnbull has turned up the heat on increasingly protectionist US legislators, pleading with them to ratify the Obama-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade liberalisation agreement and to do it now - ie before the looming presidential change-over.
Malcolm Turnbull has acknowledged Australian warplanes were part of a disastrous airstrike that went wrong in Syria on Saturday killing a suspected 60 Syrian government troops and threatening a delicate ceasefire in the war torn country.
Saturday night revellers dance and pose for NY-busker-selfie snaps. They are too far away and too self-absorbed to hear the blast that rips through a street several blocks away even as they party.
Stephen Conroy's passive-aggressive retirement has left Shorten embarrassed and his leadership more exposed.
Q: Want to know why the Greens party does not fear failure - why it does not fret about being blamed for setting back a valued human rights cause potentially by years?
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