Far from protecting his reputation, Tony Abbott is trashing it
Is Tony Abbott's post-leadership decompensation entering its final stage where the real harm is to his own legacy?
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
Is Tony Abbott's post-leadership decompensation entering its final stage where the real harm is to his own legacy?
Greens leader Richard DiNatale has slammed as "highly inappropriate" a move to inquire into foreign political donations and influence-buying within Australia's governing parties via the secretive Parliamentary Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security.
The PM is under mounting pressure as pro-coal figures led by Tony Abbott lay out climate policy demands.
A frustrated Malcolm Turnbull has taken an apparent swipe at his predecessor, Tony Abbott, for reducing climate policy debate to "glib" slogans.
Growing economic inequality should be formally monitored by the nation's prime economic modelling and review body.
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 generation coal-fired power stations and even old ones retro-fitted with carbon capture and storage, would reap financial incentives.
The commonalities between a series of recent elections, including last year's poll in Australia, are striking.
For Malcolm Turnbull, attempting to be "green-again" is a dangerous but necessary risk.
Squalid political price-taking has already crept into the public space, and it began right at the top.
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