Penalty cut is 'WorkChoices-dangerous' for PM
After laying siege to the Australian labour fortress of weekend penalty rates over decades, employers have finally loosened a few bricks and clambered over the wall.
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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.
Labor's leftward swing not without risks
When in doubt, soak the rich. It seems obvious because, after all, there's votes in it, right?
Defence spend would break the budget if we go it alone: Houston
Downgrading the US alliance would force Australia to fund far more of its own defence spending.
Carbon tax relief only fleeting as high prices force energy rethink
Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has conceded that scrapping the carbon tax had given consumers only a "brief respite" from rising electricity prices, forcing those with the means to invest in self-generation such as roof-top solar.
The West's blind support for Israel has done it no favours
Descending east from Jerusalem into the Rift Valley, the landscape turns decidedly hostile, and that's just the start of it.
Malcolm Turnbull caves after flirting with housing backflip
The public policy case for lowering the concession is strong. But the political cost was seen as too high.
It's a goal, it's a target, no, it's ... Labor's energy policy
The last thing Labor can afford as it weathers a mounting scare campaign against its ambitious climate change policy, is any sense that it does not understand it itself.
PM's new scare campaign is going to work
The noisy parliamentary battle over renewable energy rages on
Hypocrisy, thy name is politics
It is among the more glaring ironies that professional politicians tend to recoil in horror when accused of "playing politics".
PM dubs Labor's renewable policies mindless, negligent
Pushing ever more renewable energy into the national electricity network is mindless, negligent, and complacent, without new investments in energy storage infrastructure, Malcolm Turnbull has declared as he stepped up his attack on Labor's clean energy policy.
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