Coal fight casts a pall over Turnbull's clean energy reforms
Australia's energy grid remains messy, ad hoc, stridently politicised and subject to an uncertain outlook.
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
Australia's energy grid remains messy, ad hoc, stridently politicised and subject to an uncertain outlook.
The parliamentary citizenship frenzy gripping Canberra in recent weeks suddenly feels a bit anti-climactic.
Tony Abbott's dare and Bill Shorten's capitulation will now make it impossible for any MP suspected of dual citizenship issues to withhold their documentation.
Malcolm Turnbull can decide whether his slight recovery in Newspoll is an aberration or the start of a structural return to electoral competitiveness.
Christopher Pyne has suggested his high profile has unreasonably fuelled media speculation that his seat of Sturt will be abolished, but the Defence Industry Minister has nonetheless hinted that he would switch seats even if Sturt is retained but with its boundaries moved to render it unwinnable.
Labor's wiser parliamentary strategists are reminding themselves of a sage lesson in tactics.
It is tempting to explain America's mixed messaging towards North Korea as calculated - the old "good cop, bad cop" routine. If only it were that complicated.
Let's consider Malcolm Turnbull's best case scenario.
The Prime Minister dialled it up to 11 but the resting face of Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg presaged the modest scale of the government's energy package.
Malcolm Turnbull is being encouraged to adopt an underdog status to highlight the growing "danger" of Bill Shorten becoming the nation's 30th prime minister.
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