Turnbull desperately hoping that history doesn't repeat
An inward-looking America could prove to be a blessing in disguise for Australia
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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.
Turnbull's approach leads to some perverse results
The whole double-D drama could have been avoided had the government made the concessions that secured the Australian Building and Construction Commission's passage this week.
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?
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.
The stark choice facing Turnbull's internal critics
That unelectable weakling, Bill Shorten, has demonstrated to devastating effect that the combination of party unity and focus can take you very close to the top in politics.
Politics is starting to look like war and we are the losers
Rational debate, with its unspectacular promise of sensible compromise, is now discredited or rendered politically unfeasible
Brandis' power grab has far reaching consequences
It is hardly earth-shattering that ministers make things up, leave things out, speak beyond their knowledge, and simply get things wrong.
Turnbull's consolation – Christmas is coming
Coalitionists are left licking their wounds and wondering which way this could go next.
Naive campaign shattered the goal of marriage equality
What if marriage equality is suddenly three years away at best? Two terms? A decade?
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.
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