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.
To my mates and me, the acrid fumes from the automotive paint and subsequent baking booths merely provided enough cover for our most daring stunt yet – smoking cigarettes right under the nose of one of our most reviled and authoritarian teachers.
A call to sell one of Australia's most famous artworks in order to pay down debt is not merely financially stupid, it is artistically vapid.
The cabinet post of Attorney-General usually sits above the fray. Sober. Reasoned. Deliberately low profile. Not under this AG.
Federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg believes a meeting of the COAG energy council in Canberra on Thursday "couldn't come at a more important time" just one week after South Australia experienced a statewide blackout triggering a federal political war in its aftermath.
Fabulously remunerated bank executives no doubt feel they are on public trial as they front the first of Malcolm Turnbull's new annual hearings before the House of Representatives Economics Committee from Tuesday.
Voters are unconvinced by Malcolm Turnbull's move to drag bank executives before a parliamentary committee beginning this week, suggesting many regard it as an attempt to forestall a full royal commission, according to a new survey of community attitudes.
It's likely that by week's end, there will be more questions on bank behaviour rather than less. And that could make for some very tricky politics.
Malcolm Turnbull has emerged from high-level talks in the US capital, increasingly hopeful that a final defeat for Islamic State forces in Syria is nearing.
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.
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