Winter is coming: politics-as-usual reaching its limits
It is conceivable that within a decade, neither the ALP nor the Liberal-Nationals coalition will exist as dominant electoral forces .
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
It is conceivable that within a decade, neither the ALP nor the Liberal-Nationals coalition will exist as dominant electoral forces .
If Coalition marginal seat MPs were beef cows, they'd be smelling the abattoirs about now.
Partisans on both the left and right would welcome Malcolm Turnbull's fall at pretty much any cost. And that's the point – the price would be exorbitant.
Atop Capital Hill, the giant flag hung motionless amid a crystal winter's day.
As the Turnbull government struggles to convince internal dissenters of the need for tougher carbon reduction measures, forces on the green energy side are positioning for a renewed climate change debate in coming months.
Language and communication are the key tools of politics. Yet a clear message can sometimes be discerned from what is not said rather than what is.
Almost two thirds of adult Australian news consumers say they are either "very" or "extremely" interested in news stories but 56 per cent also admit to actively avoiding the news either often or occasionally.
In the end, the admirably calm Education Minister cleverly used the Greens' package as the road map to an acceptable deal with a far less progressive cross-bench.
Privatisation. Back in the day, opposing it was the province of self-interested public sector unions and sentimentalists.
For fractious Coalition MPs amassed under Malcolm Turnbull, Monday's depressing 47-53 Newspoll was old news. Fourteen surveys old.
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