Even the one comfort in Turnbull's disastrous run is bad news
Whether it is incompetence, bad luck, or bad judgment, controversies glow white-hot but fade when the next disaster hoves into view.
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.
Whether it is incompetence, bad luck, or bad judgment, controversies glow white-hot but fade when the next disaster hoves into view.
Voters in two important safe Liberal seats seem to be odds with the Turnbull government's central economic agenda item for its second term.
In all likelihood, Cory Bernardi's expected break away from the Liberal Party will achieve exactly nothing.
An inward-looking America could prove to be a blessing in disguise for Australia
Canberra is on tenterhooks, keenly aware that Donald Trump is volatile, vainglorious, and potentially unreliable.
Now that we know how much, a reasoned debate can ensue. But don't hold your breath.
Malcolm Turnbull has opened the possibility of using subsidies earmarked for green energy projects to help build new high-tech clean coal fired power stations as he branded Labor's "mindless rush into renewables", a recipe for more expensive and less reliable electricity.
Hiding behind arcane reporting rules for years after the fact is not merely untenable, it is next-level hamfisted.
Soaring electricity prices under Labor's green energy target, a re-commitment to "job creating" company tax cuts, and new savings to fund more affordable childcare are shaping as key battlelines in the political contest this year as Malcolm Turnbull outlines his government's strategy on Wednesday.
Prime ministerial rhetoric may have reached 'peak grandiose' under Kevin Rudd, been oddly suburban under Julia Gillard, and bluntly combative under Tony Abbott. ut under Malcolm Turnbull, it is drifting towards the vapid.
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