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Mark Kenny

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.

Moving on: Holden engineers are being offered new opportunities abroad, as well as outside the company.

Goodbye to a country that once built cars

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.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks during the Summit for Refugees and Migrants at UN headquarters.

A non-idiot abroad: Malcolm Turnbull presents an Australian story

An increasingly sure-footed Malcolm Turnbull spent last week in New York and Washington jawboning legislators about two complicated challenges nipping at the sovereignty of the modern nation state and its collective conscience: protectionism and irregular migration.