Parliament's lawns to be sealed off under sweeping security overhaul
An imminent tightening of security arrangements at Parliament House threatens to deny public access to the iconic building's signature sloping lawns.
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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.
Star man Malcolm Turnbull no longer blowing voters' minds
Malcolm Turnbull is a messiah who then crashed in the polls. But there's still time to recover.
Crashing to zero: Malcolm Turnbull's support evaporates
Malcolm Turnbull's personal standing has fallen a colossal 53 percentage points over the last year to now reach zero.
We've fallen from the audacity of hope to the audacity of grope
How many votes do you reckon Kevin Rudd lost when it was revealed he had gone into a seedy New York strip club known as Scores in a drunken manhattan bar crawl? Or what about Donald J Trump? How many do you imagine he lost from the notorious bus tape where he was recorded boasting of preying on and sexually assaulting women?
Slowly but unsurely, Turnbull picks his way forward
A handful of wins towards the end of the year have rescued the Turnbull government from the near certainty of a difficult summer, but progress must be maintained if the government is to recover its balance and make something of 2017.
Perhaps Turnbull's refugee ban wasn't so bad after all
Once again, a government has put politics before policy, at the expense of the latter.
Playing to prejudices does politicians no credit
The initial shock of Donald Trump's election win has already given way to a second-wave effect in Australia, with policymakers adjusting their stances, toughening their rhetoric, playing to prejudices once discredited.
Greens slam growing inequality, as welfare cuts 'wipe out tax savings'
The extension of the second highest tax threshold from $80,000 to $87,000 to give middle-income families relief, along with cuts to some family tax benefits, has backfired, leaving many poorer families worse off, according to independent analysis.
Foreign worker row: PM hits out at Shorten's 'rank opportunism'
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused opposition leader Bill Shorten of hypocrisy on a breathtaking scale as the issue of foreign workers taking Australian jobs threatened to become a defining argument that could last all the way to the next election.
Foreign workers: ground zero in the new political order
It is tempting to conclude that Bill Shorten watched the blue-collar backlash in the US last week and panicked, deciding to condemn foreign workers taking up Australian jobs.
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