Voters switched off a desperate Coalition
For fractious Coalition MPs amassed under Malcolm Turnbull, Monday's depressing 47-53 Newspoll was old news. Fourteen surveys old.
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Mark Kenny
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
A war on two fronts: Turnbull faces internal rebellion over schools
The Turnbull government's progress towards a historic victory on its new Gonski 2.0 school funding model threatens to be derailed by an internal rebellion from conservative MPs furious about a $4.6 billion hit to Catholic schools.
Government in secret bid to secure Gonski deal
The Turnbull government has made a series major concessions to the Greens on school funding in a bid to secure the Gonski 2.0 package in the Senate. The proposed deal would be a major breakthrough for the beleaguered government. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has written to the crucial cross bench party granting almost all of its demands for extra funding guarantees etc...
Far from protecting his reputation, Tony Abbott is trashing it
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Greens ratchet up pressure on major parties for corruption probe
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PM under climate pressure as Abbott makes demands
The PM is under mounting pressure as pro-coal figures led by Tony Abbott lay out climate policy demands.
PM blasts 'glib' slogans, calls for national climate plan
A frustrated Malcolm Turnbull has taken an apparent swipe at his predecessor, Tony Abbott, for reducing climate policy debate to "glib" slogans.
Income inequality, the new handbrake on growth
Growing economic inequality should be formally monitored by the nation's prime economic modelling and review body.
Finkel question hangs over PM's leadership
Tony Abbott has already come from nowhere to replace Malcolm Turnbull as leader once as the Liberal Party convulsed over Labor's progressive climate policy in 2009.
New coal tech would gain approval under CET, says Finkel
New generation coal-fired power stations and even old ones retro-fitted with carbon capture and storage, would reap financial incentives.
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